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Show LXII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIOXER OF LYDIAN AFFAIRS. vation be revoked, and that negotiations be opened with the Grow Indians for the purchase of so much of the northeast corner of their reservation as may be necessary for the Xorthern Gheyennesin Montana. He secured a written agreement by the Indians to remove to, and locate on, such reservation as might be determined upon by the Department. Final action has not been taken on this report, but the subject will hereafter be specially submitted for your consideration and action. THE OMAHA RESERVATION IN NEBRASXA. The act of ,?larch 3, 1885 (Stat. 23,370), authorized the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, and with the consent ofi the Indians, to extend the time of payment as fixed by section 2 of the act. of August 7,1882 (Stat.22,341), for the Omaha Reservitiou lands lying west of the Sioux City and Nebraska Railroad, recently sold nnder authority oi! said act, so that one-third of the purchase money should become due and payablu in two years from the date when the land was thrown open to settlement, with one year's interest on the amount of the first inst:tll-ment; one-third in one year; and the remaining third in two years from date of first payment, with interest as provided in the act last above mentioned. Owing to the stress of hard times? and the failure'to get returns from their crops in time, it was fot~ndth at many of the purchasers'wor~ldb e unable to make their first payments .at the date fixed by law. It was not deemed advicable to go to the expense of reselliqg the lands, and in the light of past experience in similar cases it was believed that it would be more to the advantage 07 the Indians to extend the time of I payment. The question having been submitted to the Indians as re-quired, they raadily gave their consent, and the extension was accord-ingly granted. All the lands lying west of the railroaa, not previously allotted to the Indians, have been sold. By the same act (March,3,1885) provision was made for the appraise-ment and sale of the nnallotted lands in township 24, range 7 east. It mas stipulated in the act of August 7,1882, providing for the sale of the lands west of the railroad, &c., that all land in township 24, range 7 east, remaining unalloted on the 1st day of June, 1885, should be ap. praised and sold as other lands under the provisions of said act. A commission, composed of Messrs. Henry E. Williamson, of Missis. sippi; Edward L. Thomas, of Georgia, and Henry Fontenelle, of Ne-braska, was a.ppointed, and sent out during the summer to make there-quired appraisement. They received their.instructions from this o6ice under date of July 3,1885, and submitted their report and schedule of appraisement on the 30th of the same month. From their report it ap- . pears that the quantity of land appraised was 4,840.24 acres; the ag-gregate appraised value thereof $43,061.87, and the. average value per acre a fraction less than $9. The schedule of appraisement was approved |