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Show XXVIII PEPOUT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. chase whenever they shall elect to sell. The pre-emption right of the . company in the Tonawanda Reserve was extinguished by the United States in the treaty of 1857 (11 Stats., p. 736), and the title is now held $ in trust and in fee by the comptroller of the State of New York 'ifor . the exclusive use, occupation, and enjoyment of the Senecas of the 'lonawanda band who reside thereon." (See annual report of Indian . Bureau for 1877, p. 163.) .; The Oil Spring Reserve, claimed by the Holland Land Company ... and its grantees, is owned by the Senecas and their title thereto was confirmed in 1856 by the State courts in an ejectment suit instituted under an act of the legislature (Chap. 150) passed in 1845 (p. 166). The Oneida Reserve, recognized by the treaty of l794with the Six . * Nations (7 Stats., p. 46), consists of detached farms held in severalty by the heads of families and contains in all about 350 acres. Under regu-lations provided by chapter 185 of the laws of New York, 1843, any Oneida owning a part of said reserve may sell to any person upon terms to be approved by a superintendent and a majority of the chiefs. (Page 168.) The Onondaga Reserve, recognized by the aforesaid treaty, contained prior to 1793 over 100 square miles. By the treaties of 1793,1795,1817, and 1832, they sold to the State all hut about 6,100 acres located about 7 miles from Syracuse. Most of this land is leased and worked by white men, very few Indians cultivating their own. (Idem.) The St. Begis Reserve, 14,030 acres, was excepted from the cession of lands made in 1796 to the State of New York by the lndians denominat-ing themselves the Seven Nations of Canada (7 Stats., p. 55). It is gov-erned by three chiefs, elected annually, who, with the advice of the local State agent, have authority under the laws of the State to lease to any Indian, for not exceeding ten years, any part of their unocenpied lands. (Idern). The Tueearora Reserve, 6,249 acres, is claimed by the Indians to have been reserved in the treaty of 1797 (7 Stats., p. 601), but to have been omitted in the text. The Holland Land Company, grantees of Robert Morris, however, recognized and confirmed the claim comprising 1 mile square and granted them 3 square miles adjoining, and subsequently, in 1801, the Indians purchased 4,320 acres from the company, securing the absolute title thereof in fee simple. (See annual report IndianRureau, 1877, p. 166, and Colonial and State Laws, p. 102.) The improved lands on this reservation are practically allotted to the individual adult In-dians in fee, who can, however,, buy or sell only between themselves. Their timber land is owned in common, protected by a committee ap-pointed by the chiefs, who permit no timber to be used except by Indians, and by them only for fuel and building purposes, the down and dead timber to be used first. (Annual report of Ilidian Bureau for 1872, p. 201.) , North Carolina.-The lands owned by the Cherokees in North Caro-lina, located in Cherokee, Graham, Jackson, Macon, and Swain Coun |