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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 25 :I (31) s distance of twenty-night (28) rods; thenoe east and p~lrallelw ith the sonth line of said section a distance of seventeen and a half (llf) rod^; t,heuee south, and parallel with the west line of said section, a distance of twenty-eight (28) rodq to the south lineof said seotion; thenoe west on the sonth line of sad section, a dis-tmoe of seventeen and one-half (174) rods, to t.he place of begiauiug, eootatning three acres, more or less, together with the frame buildillg situate thereon and the I laud oovered by said bnildiog. The deed was approved by the Departmertt December 1,1897, and was recorded in the office of Norman County, Minu., March 16,1898, in Book F, page 569, md is recorded in this ofice in Miscellaneous Records, Volume IV, page 280. Red Pipestone Reservation, =inn.-The following paragraph is con-tailled in the Indian appropriation act approved June 7, 1897 (30 Stats., 87) : The Secretmy of the Interior is directed to negotiate, through an Indian inapeotor, with the Yankton tribe of Indians of South Dakota for the purchase of a paroe1 of land near Pipestone, Minnesota, on which isnow located anIndian industrial school. In complianoe with instrnctions this office submitted to the Depart-ment April 25 last' a draft of instructions, with detailed information regarding the Pipestone Reservation, for the guidance of the inspector to whom should be assigned the duty of conducting the negotiatious. Flmdreau Sohool, South Dakota.-ln the India11 appropriation act approved June 7,1897 (30 Stats., p. SO), Congress appropriated for the school at Flandrean, Moody County, S. Dak., $8,000 for the purchase of land to be used rts an industrial farm, at a price not to exceed $25 per acre. August 16, 1897, Leslie D. Davis, superintendent of that school, reported that several desirable tracts lying north of the school lauds could be had, which were in a state of thorough cultivation, or were exoellent for pasturage. A I I ~ I2I8~ h~e was instructed to enter into negotiations with the owners of the several tracts, and, September 24, he submitted a description of the trmts offered him, wit6 the prices asked. October 6, Supervisor FA. Oonser was instructed to inspect those tracts and report as to their adaptation to the wants of the school. October 27 he recommended favorably the 8. & of the SE. $ of sec. 16, T. 107 N., R. 48 W., owned by Mr. M. H. Beadles, of Illinois; the N. 4 of the SE. and the E. of the NE. g of same section, owned by George A. Phillips; and the W. & of the NE. $ of said section, owned by the State. In the meantime Superintendent Davis made a supplemental report, October 11, that the N. & of the SW. &of ~ e c2.1 , T. 107 N., R. 48 W., had been offered him at $25 per acre, a most desirable tract to obtain because it would give free and undisputed access to the river for the sewerage system then in process of constn~ctiou. Later he ascertained that more than $25 per acre would be asked for the Beadles tract. Marob 7,1898, the superintendent reported that he had negotiated for the purchase of the Phillips tract for $4,000, and submitted deed |