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Show LXIV REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONBR OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. REDUCTION CF SANTEE SIOUX &ESERVAl'ION IN NEBRASKA. -Under date of Pebruar: 9, 1885: an Executive order was issued re-storing to the public domain, from and after April 15, 188.ri, a11 the lands within the Niobrara or Santee Sioux Reliervation remaining at that date uualloted to ami nuselected by the Indians of that reserva, tio11, under act of March 3, 1863 (I2 Stat., 819), and the Sioux treaty of April 29, 1868 (15 Stat., 635), respectively, said restored l a ~ ~ dtos be subject to settlement and elltry on and after May 15, 1885. The assignment of lands to the members of the Santee Sioux tribe, under the act of March 3,1863, was approved by the President, May 11, 1885, and 485 certificates have been issued therefor. One hundred. and sixty acres were reserved for each head of a family or male adult over eighteen Fears of age desiring a homestead uoder the provisions of. the treaty. The quautity of land assigned under act of March 3, 1863, was 38,908.81 acres; that selected for homesteads was 32,875.75 acres; and that reserved for agency, school, and missionary purposes 1,130.70 acres. Total reserved, 72,915.36 acres. The quantity of land restored to the public domain under operationof the Executive order of February 9, 1885, was 42,160.56 acres. SAL% OR THE SAC AND FOX AND IOWA &IZSERVATIONS IN KANSAS AND NEBRAsKA. The act of March 3,1885 (23 Stat., 351), auehorized the appraisement and sale of the reservatious of the Sac and Fox (of the Xisso~iri)a nd Iowa tribes of Indians, located in the States of Kansas and Nebraska, with the consentof a mdority of the ohiefs, headmen, and male adults of each tribe, expressed in opencouncil. Oouncilshave been held with the Indians as required by the act. The Sac and Fox Indians, after sending a delegation to the Indian Territory for the purpose of select-ing a reservation there, aoanimously refused their assent to the terms of the a&, being unwilling to unite with the Sac a l ~ dF ox of the Mis- . sissippi, or to accept a stnall reservation. Special Agent Parsons re-ports that they would uqdoubtedly be willing to remove if they are ' allowed to select a tract of country between the Pawnee Reservation on the east, the Indian meridian on the west, the Otoe and Missonria Reservation on the north, and the Iowa Reservation on the south, com-prising some eighteen townships. One.half of the chiefs, headmen, and male atlults of the Iowa tribe reside in the Indian Territory, and the other half in Eknsas rtnd Ne-braska, numbering fifty-eight in all. A separate council was held with each portion of the tribe. Of those in the Indiau Territory, twenty.six-being all who were present-voted in favor of accepting the provisions of the act. Of those residing in Hansas and Nebraslrk, eleven voted in favor of saleand removal, twelve voted against the same, and six were |