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Show REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 81 The prescribed rules were adopted Jnly 10,1897, and the first approval of such conveyances was made October 5, 1897. There have been approved by the Department up to August 5,1898, t h i r t ~ twoco nvey-ances of land by the Peoria Indians, amounting to 2,684.57 acres, :bt a valuation of $27,653.90, an average of $10.30 per acre, and sixteen con-veyances by the Miami Indians, amountingto 1,411.05 acres, at avalua-tion of $12,505, an average of $8.86 per acre, making in the aggregate a sale of 4,096.62 acres of land for $40,108.90, an average of $9.79 per acre. TITLE TO LAND PURCHASED BY THE SAC AND FOX INDIANS IN IOWA. Since 1857 the Sac and Fox Indians have purchased at various times with their own funds sundry tracts of land in Iowa, trust deeds for which wero made, some in the name of the governor of the State and some in the name of the Indian agent; a few deeds were made in trust for certain named Indians which were undoubtedly intended for the tribe. In settling the status of these Indians the question of jurisdiction over their lauds has arisen, and, in order to secure a just recognition of their rights, the legislature of the State of Iowa, in January, 1896, ceded to the redera1 Government jurisdiction over the Iowa Indians and their lands. The United States Indian agent for the Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa, and the governor of the State of Iowa, were thereby authorized to t ra~~s fbeyr deed of conveyance, for the use and benefit of said India,ns, the legal title held by them in trust, respectively, and the trusteeship of the lands of the Sac and Fox Indians of Tama County, Iowa, to the Secretary of the Interior and his successors in office. By the Indian appropriation act approved June 10,1896 (29 Stab., p. 331), the United States iLaccepts and assumes jurisdiction over the Sac and Fox Indians of Tama County, in the State of Iowa, and of their lands in said State, as tendered to the United States by the act of the legislature of said State, passed on the 16th day of January, 1896, subject to the limitations therein contained." The records of this office showed that the following sixteen tracts of land were held by these Indians, viz: I. Deed, dated November 13, 1876, from Lewis Carmicbael to the governor of Iowa, in trust for the use and benefit of the Sac and Fox Indians of Iowa, the E. 6 of the SW. a of sec. 29, T. 83 N., R. 15 W., except the right of way of railroad and Tama Hydraulic Company; also the west 24 acres of the NW. of the NW. g of sea. 32, T. 83 N., R. 15. W., Iowa, containing in all 144 acres, more or less; consideration, $2,600. 2. Deed, dated November 11,1876, from Andrew Jackson and Cath-erine, bis wife, to the governor of Iowa, in trnst, eta., the BE. * of the SW. ;t of seo. 30, T. 83 N., 12.15 W.; ooncsideration, $800. 6 9 7 S 6 |