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Show ' 60 REPORT OF THE OOMMISS~ONERO F INDIAN AFFAIR& these schools tracts of land not less than 200 acres each might; be selected, purchased, or condemned. Pipestone, Ninn.-In pursuance of this legisla%ion, the whole of the Pipestone Reservation has been appropriated to school purposes, sub-ject, however, to the rights of the Indians to enter and quarry stone \ at any time. This is a tract of land one mile square, in sections 1 and 2, township 106 nor&h, range 46 west, and sections 35 and 36, township 107 north, range 46 west, containing 643.40 acres, heretofore withdrawn from sale and settlen~enat nd reserved for Indian purposes. Upon application kom the I~ldiansfo r compensation for this appro-priation of their land, rthe Assistant Attorney-General, on the 17th of September, 1891, rendered m opinion that the Indians were not ea-titled to such compensation, for the reason that their rights to quarry stone were not infringed upon and that they would not suffer any damage from the construction of school buildings, and that, as the title ta the land was in the United States, it might be appropriated to that use without consulting the Indians, if that use did not abridge or inter- ' . . %re with the exercise of the rights guaranteed them by the 8th article .- of the Sioux treaty of April 19,1858 (11 Stat~.7, 43). Mount Pleasmt, 1Kich.-Many propositions were submitted by several towns for the location of the site for the school in Isabella C~unty, Mich. After careful consideration of all propositio~ls and inspection of the tracts offered, the Secretary, on the 23d of October, 1891, selected the land at Mount pleasant, known as the Old Mission fssm and the "Mowry tract," being all the northeast quarter and the east forty acres of the southeast quarter of section 9, township 14, range 4 west, containing 200 acres. The land was valued at $8,40O,of which the ~overnmenpta id $5,000, and the citizens of Mount Pleasant contribnted the remainder. Deeds for there tracts of land have been executed and duly recorded, and the validity of title approved by the Attorney-Gen-era'l, as required by section 355 of the Revised Statutes. Tomal~, Wis.-Several towns in Wisconsinoffered tracts to the Gov- , ernment for the Indian school, free of cost, and on the 19th of October, 1891, the Secretary of the Interior accepted 200 acres near Tomah. This tract consists of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southwest quirter of section 27, the east half of the southeast quarter of section 28, and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 33, all in township 18 north, range 1 west, in Monroe County, Wis. The deed for this land .was executed November 25,1891, and the validity of the title was passed upon by the Acting Attorney-General January 26,1892, and has been duly recorded. Perris, Gal.-By the Indian appropriation act of March 3,1891, Con-gress appropriated money for establi'shing au industrial school for the Miasion Indians near 'the village of Perris, Gal., upon a tract of land of not less than 80 acres to be donated for that purpose (26 Stats., 1012). |
