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Show OOidMISEIIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 63 No conveyances of land have been made by the Miami Indians since August 15,1904, and but one conveyance of land by the Wyan-dot Indians which contained 20 acres at a valuation of $200, an aver-age of $10 per acre. The total sales of lands by these three tribes of Indians since the passage of the acts of June 10,1896, and June 7,1897, are 137 convey-ances by the Peoria Indians, amounting to 9,591.62 acres, at a valua-tion of $106,616, an average of $11.11 per acre; 51 conveyances by the ~ i a mIin dians, amounting to 3,767.80 acres, at a valuation of $43,412.50, an average of $11.52 per acre, and 29 conveyances by the Wyandot Indians, amounting to 636.25 acres, at a valuation of $14,152.50, an average of $22.62 per acre; making 217 conveyances by the three tribes, aggregating 13,995.67 acres, at a valuation of $164,181, an average of $11.73 per acre. The last annual report of this Office stated that up to August 15, 1904, there had been approved by the President for the two bands, 303 conveyances of land, amounting to 19,939.98 acres, at a valuation of $70,881.76, an average of $3.55 per acre. Between August 15, 1904, and July 15, 1905, there were approved by the President 3 conveyances of land by the former band, amount-ing to 240 acres, at a valnation of $1,140, an average of $4.75 per acre. No conveyances of land by the latter band have been made since August 15, 1904. The total sales of land by these two bands of Indians up to July 15, 1905, are 306 conveyances amounting to 20,179.98 acres, at a valuation of $72,021.76, an average of $3.57 per acre. Nearly 200 deeds had been presented to this Office in which the valnation of the land sold or the evidence of the payment of the consideration was unsatisfactory, and Joseph R. Farr, superintendent of logging, was directed on April 8, 1905, to proceed at once to Baraga, Mich., and ascertain the value of timber and land sold on the L'Anse and Ontonagon reservations. His reports of May 26 and July 15, transmitted to the Department on August 7, showed that the consideration named in the deeds was far below the valuation placed by him upon the land and timber, and that, except in a few cases, no evidence of payment of the consideration accompanied the deeds. On August 10 the Department directed that future sales must be made by petition and on sealed bids, all sales of the timber and lands of the L'Anse allottees to be, as far as practicable, under the general supervision of Superintendent Fark-. On September 8 the Depart-ment, concurring in Office recommendation of the same date, directed |