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Show lxxvi . FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF SALE OF IOWA RESERVATION IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. On gust 19;1887, this office recommended that the Commissioner of the General Land Office be instructed to cause the Iowa Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, to be surveyed into 40-acre tracts, as required by the act of Congress approved March 3,1885 (23 Stat., 352), such survey being preliminary to the allotment of lands to such of the Indi-ans as might desire to remain on the reservation. The appraisemenk and sale of the surplus lauds, after allotments shall have been made, is provided for under said act, and the act of January 26,1887 (24 Stat., 367), amendatory thereof. A@ no official information regarding the progress of said surveys has yet been received, it is probable thst no further action can be taken in the matter before next spring. MEDAWAEANTON BAND OF SIOUX IN MINNESOTA. Thirty-five families of this band have been located on farms under the provisions of the act of May 15, 1886, and have been supplied with lumber for houses and, to a limited extent, with seed and provisions. WINNEBAGO BESERVATION IN NEBRASKA. An act approved Jnly 4,1888 (25 Stat., 240, and page 335 of this re-port), authorizes the sale of some 615 acres of land in the Winnebago Reservation at public sale to the highest bidder. The tracts in question are adjacent to the town of Emerson. Instructions have been given to the agent in charge of the Winne-bago Indians to submit the matter to them, with a view of obtaining their consent to the proposed sale, as required by the act. BOUNDARIES OF THE WARX SPRINGS RESERVATION IN OREffON. On October 3,1885, this office called the attention of the Department to a report from the Agent at Warm Springs, that in extending the pub-lic surveys the boundaries of the reservation on the north, south, and west had not been properly respected, and that some of the lands be-longing to the reservation had been surveyed as public lands. liecorn-mendation was made that steps be taken to ascertain whether any lands embraced in the reservation had been so surveyed, and, if so, that the error be corrected. Considerable correspondence on the subject was subsequently had, and on December 17,1886, a contract was made with John A. McQuinn for the survey of the north line of t,he reservation. The agent and this office had previously recommended that the initial point of said line should be located several miles north of the initial point established by a survey made in 1871. Deputy Surveyor Mo- Quinn, however, located his initial point a short distance south of the |