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Show REPORT OF THE 0 0 ~ 8 8 I O N E EO F INDIAN AFFAIRS. 67 of Umatilla lands heretofore held. They have been occupied for a long time by white settlers without remuneration to the Indians. The - Indians have' been dissatiified because they were not permitted to graze their flocks and herds upon these lands,while they have been used and occupied by whites without compensation. An act approved July 1, 1902 (32 SW., 730), provides tha6 all these lands shall be sold at private sale by the register of the land ofiice in the district within which they are situatedat not less than the appraised value thereof and in conformity with the provisions of prior legisla-tion. It is provided that any boua fide settler upon any of these lands F who is the owner of substantial improvements thereon, and who has improved any subdivision of the land with the intent of permanently residing upon it as.a homestead, shall have a preference right to buy . such land at any time within ninety da$s after the date of the act, upon making satisfactory proof of the local 05ce as to settlement, intent, I and improvements. . Pnyallnp, Washington.-The Indian appropriation act approved May 27, 1902, contains the following clause, which provides for continuing t the sale of Puyallup lands during the present fiscal year: For campenation of the commissioner authorized by the Indian appropriation act approved June mventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to superinbend the sale of land, and so forth, of the Puyallup Indian Reservation, Washington, who shall continue the work as therein provided, two thousand dollam. This work was continued during the last fiscal year under a similar provision wntained in the Indian appropriation act of March 3, '1901. Clinton A. Snowden, who was appointed Puyallup commissioner June 22,1897, is still in charge of the work. As stated in the last Annual Report, Commissioner Snowden was of the opinion that the appraised value of the lots within the Indian addition to the city of Tacoma was too low, and he recommended that they be reexamined with a view to their reappraisement and that meantime sales of the lots be suspended. Accordingly this ofiice tel-egraphed him, July 19,1901, to suspend the sales until further orders, arid August, 13, 1901, he was instructed as to reappraisement. The reappraisement has beeu completed by Commissioner Snowden, and sales will soon be resumed. The lots within the Indian addition to the city of Tacoma aggregate 3,600 and there are 10 tracts consid-ered as lots and blocks, making in all 3,610. There have beeu sold 1,945 lots and tracts considered as lots, leaving 1,655 yet for sale. Citizen Potawatomi and Absentee Shawnee, Oklahoma.-During the present year there has been a decided boom in real estate in Oklahoma, and as a result the sale of Indian lands in that Territory during the past twelve months has far exceeded that of any previous year. The last annual report stated that up to August 15, 1901, under the acts of |