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Show LXVI REPORT OF THE L'OMMISSIOPEE OF INDIAN APFAIRS. Under dateof April.7,1587, the Atto~ney-Genera(l to whom.theques. tion of the alleged conspiracy, as well as theequitableright of Nr. Car-ney to refundment in the event of the lands being disposed of to other parties, was submitted) transmitted to the Department a impy of a re-port on the subject by the United States district attorney for Kansas, dated April 1, 1837, inclosir~ga large number of a6i!!avits to theetfect that $3 per acre is t,he full value of the lands covered by said taenty-fiye deeds, exclusive of improrements. The United States attorney stated iu,his report that, inhis opinion, no conspiracy was formed nor fraud practiced to snch an extent as to defeat the equity of the grantee in said twenty-five deeds of refundmeut of the money paid by him for the lands covered thereby, in the event the lands should afterwards he disposed of to other purchasers. The question of the approval of these deeds was again brought up and a hearing given by the Department to the partiesin interest. By letter of June 25, 1887, the Department ad-vised this office that full consideration had been given the subject, and that for the reasons set out in areport of the Assistant Attorney.Gen-eral, 'therewith transmitted, the Department declined to approve said deeds. The land in question lies in Johnson county,Kans., from 6 to12 miles from Olathe, the county-seat, and distant from Kansas City from 16 to 23 miles, and is penetrated by a railway. Very strong evidence as to the inadequacy of $3 per acre as coasideration for safd land is fur-nished by the offer of some of the settlers thereon inletter to this office, dated January 31, 1887, to purchase the lands on which they reside at $6 permre. I believe that justice to the Indians and the protection of the settlers, who, though trespassers, have equities that should not be overlooked, alike require action by Congrcss as inaicated. SALE OF IOWA AND SAC AND FOX RESERVATIONS IN KANSAS AND NEBEASKA. The bill amendatory of the act of March 3,1885 (23 Stats., 351), pro-viding for the appraisement and sale of these reservations, referred to in my last annual report, became a law on the 8th of January last (24 Stats., 367). Councils have sinee been held witheach of the tribes and the nearly nnanimous consent of the Iowas to the provisions of the act, as amended,has been obtained. The General Land Office has been in-structed to cause the necessarysurveys to be made on the Iowareserva-tion, preliminary to its appraisement and sale. Theconsent of a majority of the male adults of the Sac and Fox tribe to the provisions of the act was not obtained. THE WHITE EAX'PH RESERVATION IN mNESOTA. The Indians of this reservation are for the most part fully prepared for individual allotments, and very many have already had lands as-signed to them under the provisions of the seventh article of the treaty |