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Show REPORT OP THE CO'~MISS~ONEORF MDfAN AFFAIRS. 91 It is suggested that by a removal of the Sac and Fox Agency from its present site in Lincoln County to the town or vicinity of Shawnee, on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, or to Tecumseh, both in Pottawatomie County, Okla., a more central position would be secured so that the agent could maintain a more uniform oversight over the interests of the several tribes within his jurisdiction. If the agency were located upon this railroad, it would be much more accessible than it now is to special agents and inspectors, and the Pottawatomies and Absentee Shawnees, in etfecting a lease or sale of their lands, would not be obliged to make extended and expensive trips to the agency to have their deeds duly acknowledged or approved. I respectfnlly recommend that Congress be requested to make a reasonable appro-priation to ,meet the expenses of removing the agency and for the erection of necessary buildings at the new site. SALE OF CITIZEN POTTAWATOMIE AND ABSENTEE SHAWNEE LANDS, OELAHOMA. In the annual report for 1896, page 90, it was stated that there had been approved by the Department, up to July 25,1896,157 assign-ments of land from the Pottawatomies and Absentee Bhawnees, aggre-gating in area 19,479.54 anres, valued at $118,304.87. This comprised 14,082.74 acres in Pottawatomie County, valuation $84,269.07, or an average of $5.98 per acre, and 5,396.80 acres in Oleveland County, valuation $34,035.80, or an average of $6.31 per acre. Since then there have been approved by the Department up to August 2,7897, 87 assignments by the Pottawatomie Indians, at an average of $5.55 per acre, viz, 73 in Pottawatomie County, aggregating 7,072.54 acres, for $39,786.06, and 14 in Cleveland County, aggregat-ing 1,957.27 acres, for $10,330. During the same period there have been approved by the Department 14 assignments by the Absentee Shawnee Indians, at an average of $6.85 per acre, vie, 12 in Pottawa-tomie County, aggregating 808.70 acres, for $5,761.16, and 2 in Cleve-land County, aggregating 120 acres, for $600. The total is 101 assign-ments, covering 9,958.51 mres of land, for $56,477.22, or an average of $5.67 per acre. BOUNDARY OF KLAMATH RESERVATION, OREGON. The Elamath Bonndary Commission, consisting of W. P. Coleman, R. P. Hammond, and I. D. Applegate, was authorized by aclanse in the Indian appropriation act of June 10,1896 (29 Stat., 321). Its report, rendered December 18,1896, was submitted to Congress January 26, 1897. The area which the commission ascertained and determined to have been excluded from the treaty reservation by the erroneous survey of its outbonndaries was 617,490 acres, the value of which was determined to he $533,270, being at the rate of 86.36 centa per acre. The commis- |
