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Show COXMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 121 addition to the city of Tawma. They donated and dedicated all the streets and alleys of this addition to the use of the public forever, reserving, however, the right to make and maintain a water-supply system in or along any of those streets or alleys for the use of the Indian school and agency. Within this addition there are 3,600 lots 25 by 130 feet. There are also 22 tracts (known as acre tracts or lots) wntaining 119.26 acres. Eight of these tracts, containing 62.12 acres, have been reserved for school, farm, and garden purposes, and four of them, containing - 19.43 acres, bave been reserved for church and cemetery purposes. The remaining 10 tracts, containing 37.n acres, were appraised for sale, together with the 3,600 lots above mentioned. The streetn within this addition are 80 feet wide and the alleys 20 feet. The laud reserved for railroads, streets, and alleys, as per plat of survey, aggregates 164.75 acres, and, as already stated, the Tacoma Land Company's deed covers 14.10 acres. There were, therefore, selected for sale, surveyed, and subdivided and platted into lots, blocks, and tracts considered as blocks, 338.41 acres. On October 28, 1894, the county commissionen of Pierce County, Wash., approved the donation and dedication for the use of the public of the streets and alleys as shown upon the map of the addition. There were sold of the allotted lands, prior to July 1,1904, by Com-missioner Snowden and the former commissioners, for the use and benefit of the allottees and true owners, 7,027.2685 acres. The con-sideraticl was $420,303.83. The amount of cash paid and deferred payments collected, principal and interest, by Commissioner Snowden and his predecessors aggregated $341,200.44. There were sold up to July 1,1904, by Commissioner Snowdeubnd the former Puyallup wmmissioners, 3,187 lots within the Indian addi-tion to the city of Tacoma, and 6 tracts containing 24.82 acres. The consideration therefor was $193,536.61, and the amount of cash and deferred payments, principal and interest, which they had collected aggregated $147,488.32. There remained unsold on March 3, 1903, of the allotted lands, 10,435.7315 acres. There yet remain unsold within the Indian addi-tion, 413 lots and 4 tracts, containing 12.89 acres. The proceeds arising from the sale of allotted lands have been depos-ited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the respec-tive allottees and true owners and warrants have been drawn in favor of the allottees and true owners, or their heirs when ascertained, and delivered to them, less 10 per cent retained in the Treasury for the expenses of the sale. The proceeda arising from the sale of Indian addition lots and tracts bave been deposited in the Treasury of the United Statea to the credit of the Puyallup tribe of Indians, and they draw interest at the rate of |