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Show REPORT OF THE COI~MISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 31 It appears that this agreement mas not satisfactory to 'the Senate; and as the people of Nevada desired fi~rthere duction of the Pyramid , Lake Reservation and the restoratio~t~o the public domain of the entire Walker River Reservation in thkrt State, this office, July 9, 1898, submitted to the Department draft of a bill, ill lieu of the bill to 1 ratify the said agreement, which mas iutro1nced in the Senate ;u bill No. 3L59. It provided for vacating and restoriug to the public domain i the entire Walker River Roservatiorl and a greater proport,ion of the 1 . Pyramid Lalre Resel.vatiou t l~a n . t l~acetd ed in the agreemeut.. The bill was referred to the Senate Corn~nittee on Indian Affairs, sncl re-ported bnak witllout amendrnnr~t;b nt nofurtller :~o$iona ppears to have ! been taken by the Senate. 11 bill oouti~i~liosgi milar l)rovisio~~ls~ a s 1 been introduced iu t,he present Congress (Senate 99). I Puyallup Resercation, Wasl&.-The report of the Puyallnp eom~nis-sion, to whieh retieren(:@ mas made in office report of hist year, was 1 transmitted to the Isst Uongress doring the first session. The recoin-mendatio~~ osf that cn~amisuion were not, ;tppro\red a1111 ratifierl by Congress; but the fullowing legislation wit11 reference to the Puyallup 1 Reservatiolr, was incorporated in the 111diann l~propriatioa~c~t o f March ' . 3, 1893 (27 Stats.: 612). That the President of t,he Unitocl Stntev is hereby ant,horized immediately after the passage of this act to appoint n commission of throe persons, and not mare than one of whom shall be a resident of &up one StiLte, and it shall be the duty of said commiision to select and appraise 8uoh l>ortiom of tlle illlottad lands aa are not reqnirerl forhomes for the Indian allottees; sud also thttt part of the agency traot, exolnsive of the bnrying gromal, not needed for school pnrposes, in the Poyallop Reservation in the State of \Trashiogton. An11 if the Secretary of the Interior shall approve the aeleotioos and npprtbisements mado by anid commission, the allotted 1:mds so ~olaoteds hall be old for the benefit of the nllobtees, and the agency treot for the benefit of all the Iqdians, after due notice ilt public auction at not less than the appraised value for cash, or one-third cash, and the remainder on suoh time as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, to be secured by vendor's lien on the property sold. I t shall be the duty of said oommission, or a mlqjority of them, to superintend the sale of certain Ian&, ascertain who are the true owners of the allotted lands. have - - Interior. whieh deeds shall onerate as a comnlete convevance of the land no.o n the - - fullpayment of the purohasemoney ; and the whole amountreoeived for ollottedlands shall be plaoad in the Treasury to the oredit of the Indian entitled thereto, and the same shall be paid to him in s;oh sums and at ssuoh times as the cammissioxk of In-dim AEaira, with theapproval of thesecretary of the Interior, shirlldirect: Prwided, That the portion of the ageocy traot selectedfor saleshall be platted into streets and lots ss an addition to the city of Tacoma, and sold in asparate lots, in the same man-ner es the alhttted lands, and the arnonnt reosivedtherefor, less theamount necessary to pay the expanses of said commission, including salaries, shall be placed to the credit of the Poyallop biluclof Indians as a permnuent school fund to be expended for their benetit: Andprot:i.ded ft,r.ther, That tl1eIudinn sllotteesshxllnot have power of alienstionof the allott,ed lauds not selectetlfor sale b ~ s a i dou mmission foraporiad of ten years from the date of the passage of this net, sud no part of the allotted land ahall be offered for sale until the Indian or Indians eutitled to the same shall have |
