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Show 26 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INMAN A F ~ I R S . therefor with abstract of title. This deed, dated March 7,1898, was submitted to the Department April 16,1898, and was returned May 21 with the opinion of the Acting Attorney-General that it passed a valid title to the laud conveyed, subject to an unsatisfied mortgnge of $1,800 held by the State, which was subseque~ltlys hown to have been dis-charged, and so recorded. May 26, 1898, the Depart~nent,,h aving approved the deed, granted authority for the payment of the purchase money. The deed mas duly recorded in the office of recorder of deads, Moody County, S. Dak., June 4, 1898, in Book 15, page 209, and is recorded in this office in Miscellaneous Records, Volume IV, page 366. Superintendent Davis had also been authorized to purchase the land held by the State, described as the N. ,j of the SW. & of see. 21; but March 24,1898, he reported that upon examination of county records he found that it was extremely doubtful it he could obtain a satis-factory title to that tract. In lieu thereof he recommended the pur-chase of the SW. 4 of sec. 16, T. 107 N., R 48 W., which was better land, aud being contiguous to the school grounds would be especially valu-able to the school. Jur3 6 he subnlitted a deed of even date from Albert Faegre and Sarah J., his wife, conveying to the United States for $4,000 the SW. 4 of st%. 16, T. 107 N., R. 48 W., fifth principal meridian, containing 160 acres. This deed was submitted to the Department June 11, and was returned on the 5th of August with authority for the purchase and with the written opinion of the Attor~ley. General, dated July 1,1898, that the deed passed a valid title. This deed was recorded in the register of deeds office for Moody County, S. Dak., volume 15, page 220, on the 12th d:~,y of August, 1898, and in this Office in Miscellaneous Records, Volume IV, page 353. Rapid City, S. Dak.-The Indian appropriation act approved June 10, 1896 (29 Stats., p. 345), authorized the purchase of not exceeding 160 acres of laud near Rapid City, S. Dak., at a cost not to exceed $3,000, upon which to erect buildings for an Indian industrial school. Inspector James NIcLaughlin, having been instructed to select a site, reported September 8, 1896, that he had ?elected 160 acres, located about 23 miles west of Rapid City, lying in one body, and be forwarded deeds for the same, vie, the west 30 acres of the SW. 4 of the NW. g of sec. 3, T. 1 N., R. 7 E., Black Hills meridian, South Dakota, from W. 0. Temple and wife, September 4,1186, for $380; the west 30 acres of the NW. 4 of the SW. 4 and the SW. g of the SW. 4 of said section 3, con. taining 70 acres, from Samuel P. Williamson, September 3, 1896, for $1,860; and the E. 4 of the SE. g of the BE. g and the NE. g of the SE. g of see. 4, T. 1 N., R. 7 E., containing 60 acres, from Henry P. Long, August 31, 1896, for 6760. Ninety acres in bottom land were, susceptible of irrigation from Rapid Creek and LimestooeCreek, through the Temple tract, both streams beiog reported to have a never-failing supply of excellent water. The deeds, with abstracts of title, for these three tracts were sub-mitted to the Secretary of the Interior September 19,1896, and Novem-ber 27,1896, the Attorney-General reported that they conveyed a valid |