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Show 74 REPORT OF THE COXMTi3SIONER OF INDIAN AmAIRS. by the Peoria Indians, amounting to 4,547.18 acres, at a valuation of $43,568.90, or89.58 peracre; also 25 conveyances by theMiamiIndians, amounting to 2,097.80 acres, at a valuation of $19,432, or $9.26 per acre. Between August 31, 1899, and August 1, 1900, there have been approved by the Department 12 conveyances by the Peoria Indians, amounting to 748.10 acres, at a valuation of $6,825, an average of $9.12 per acre, and 6 conveyances by the Miami Indians, amounting to 340 acres, at a valuation of $5,540.50,an average of $16.29 per acre. The total sales of lands by these two tribes of Indians since the passage of the act of June 7,1897, are 68 conveyances by the Peorias, amounting to 5,295.28 acres, at a valuation of $50,393.90, or $9.51 per acre, and 31 conveyances by the Miamis, amounting to 2,437.80 acres, at a valuation of $24,972.50, or $10.24 per acre, making 99 convey-ances by both tribea, aggregating 7,733.08 acres of land, at avaluation of $75,366.40, an average of $9.74 per acre. Citizen Potawatomi and Absentee Shawnee lands, Oklahoma.-The last annual report of this office reported the approval by the Department, up to August 31, 1899, under the act of August 15, 1894 (28 Stats., p. 295),of 509 conveyances of land by the Citizen Potawatomi and Absentee Shawnee Indiana, amounting to 52,915.36 acres of land, at a valuation of $294,802.11, an average of $5.57 per acre. Between August 31,1899, and August 31, 1900, there have been ; approved 70 conveyances of land by the Citizen Potawatomi Indians, amounting to 7,107.31 acres of land, at a valuation of $32,744.'32, an I average of 84.61 per acre; also 21 conveyances of land by the Absentee Shawnee Indians, amounting to 1,743.93 acres of land, at a valuation of $12,290, an average of $7.04 per acre. The total sales of land by these two tribes of Indians since the pas- 1 sage of the act of August 15,1894, are 600, aggregating 61,766.60 acres , of land, at a valuation of $339,836.43, an average of $5.50 per acre. I The last Congress, by the seventh section of the Indian appropria-tion act, enacted into law the suggestions made in the last annual report, viz: It allows Citizen Potawatomi and Absentee Shawnee Indians who held allotments under the act of May 23, 1872 (17 Stats., p. 159), or their heirs, and those holding such allotments by approved deeds, or their heirs, to sell the same to any person, withtheprovision that the deeds of conveyance shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior instead of, as formerly, by the President. Congress also extended the provisions of tbe act of August 15,1894 (28 Stats., p. 295), so as to permit the adult heirs of a deceased allottee of the Citizen Potawatomi or Absentee Shawnee Indians to sell and con-vey the land inherited from such decedent; and when there were both adlilt and minor owners of such inherited lands, then the minors might join in the sale thereof by a guardian, duly appointed by the proper |