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Show REPORT OF THE COMMIBBIOKER OF INDIAK AFFAIRS. LIlI A full statement of the facts upon which the opinion of the Attorney- General wm required was ~nbmittedto the department under date of June 12th, 1882. In an opinion dat,ed Jnly 7, 1882, the honorable At-torney- General held : 1st. That t,ho lallds which have been or are to be sold, oud the proceeds distributed by the act of May 15th, 1882, were set apart, assigned to, and were for the sole 1,euefit of, the Mismi tribe of Indiana, nleauing thereby those who at the time of the snrvey of the reservation had emigrated and settled on the lauds. Id. That this division nf these Indians only m eut~itledto the nroceedsof the sales of the residue mentioned in the second article of the treaty of June 5,1654, being the same lauds referred to in t.Iw third section of the act of May 15,1882. 3& That "those iudividual Miamies: or persons of Mismi blood or descent, who are named in the oornected list referred to in the Sehste smendment to the fourth article of the treaty of J ~ m5e, 1854, and their desoendauts," have no title or olain~to , or in-terest in, the said residne or the proceed8 of the snles thereof. In my j~a gme ntth ey never had any part or lot in the reserved lands. KI~KAPOO ALLOTTZES UNDER TREAT+ OF 1862. Attention was called in my last aunaal report to the condition of af-fairs relative to the estates of deceased and minor allottees, under the provisions of the Hickapoo treat^ of June 28,1862 (13 Stat., 623), and to the fact that the treaty contained no provision by which female allot-tees could become citizens aud obtain patents for their lands. A bill was prepared in this office, in accordance with the views expressed in that report, providii~gf or the settlement of the estates of deceased al-lottees and extending the benefits of the treaty to all adult allottees, without regard to their being 'Lmales and heads of families," which was submitted to Congress by your predecessor through the President on the 13th of Jdnuary last. (Senate Ex. Doc. No. 55, Forty-seventh Con-gress, first session.) This hill (Senate No. 932) passed the Senate on the 29th of March, 1882, but no action appears to have been taken thereon in the House of Representatives. It is important that the bill should be favorably acted upon by the House and become a law at the next session of Congress. S U E OP KFCKAPOO LANDS IN KANSAS.. Referenpa as also made in the laat annual report to certain traits of land reserved by said Kickapoo treaty aa a site for a saw and grist mill, aud for missionary purposes respectively, which were to be disposed of when the objects for which they vere reserved should be accomplished, in such manner and for such a purpose '6 as may be provided by law." An act of Congress approved July 28, 1882, anthorizes the Secretav of the Interior to cause to be appraised and sold, for cash, to the highest bidder, after due advertisement, in traots not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one person, the tracts reserved for mill-site and missionaq and agency purposes, no tracts to be sold for less than the appraised value thereof, a~t din no |
