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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XLIX L'Kansas Indian Trust Landsv there are 137,808.13 acres, which were appraised at a total value of $217,408.75. The i~uprovements'osf ettlers on these lands were appraised at a tot.al value of $47,654, making the total value of land and improvements $266,062.75; Of the LIDiminishedH eserve Lands" there are 78,670.34 acres, which were appraised at a total ~ralneo f $115,122.46. The improvements of settlers on theselands were appraised at $58,008, making the total value of lands and improvements $213,103.46, which, together with the appraise& vilue of the c'trnst lands," makes a grand total of 216,378.47 acres, valued at $372,531.21; adding to this $105,662, the yalue of settlers7 improvements, gives a total value of land and improvements amount-ing to $478,193.21. The schedules of appraisement were submitted by this office to the Hon. Secretary of the Interior for his approval on the 26th of April, 1879. They were approved b~ him on the 14th day of May, 1879, and duplicate copies thereof transmitted to the Commissioner of the Gen-eral Land Office, with instructions to offer for sale to actnal settlers, under section 2 of the act of 1876, at the district office at Topeka, ~ a n s . ,a ll the lands embraced in said lists, except those falling under the provisions of section 1 of said act, and those upon which entry has heretofore been allowed, under section 2 of the act of June 23,1874 (18 Stat., p. 272), which has been suspended by the late statute. , All those persons mentioned in the first section of the act of July 5, 1876, are now outside of any relief, as those who entered under the act of ,1874 are under a repealed statute, and those who have not yet entered cannot comply with the act of 1876 by paging the first installment before January 1, 1877. Those persons who entered under section 2 of the act of 1874, prior to the act of 1876, are also without the provisions of any existing statute. The penalty of the act of 1874 cannot be en-forced, as that aot is repealed by the act of 1876, and they are not sub-ject to the act of 1876 ss they did not make entry under its provisions. In order that these two classe~of persons may have the relief which they are entitled to, further legislation by Congress will be neeessaq, extending the time in which to make payment and secure their lands. The reports of the commission, with recapitulations of the appraise-ment of said lands, will be found on page 182 of this report. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, E. A. HAYT, Oommissionw. The Eon. SECRETARYO F THE,I NTERIOR. IND-Iv |