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Show REPORT OF THE COMXIBBIONER OF INDIAN AFPAIR8. 63 The total sales of lands by these two tribes since the passage of the act of August 15, 1894, are 894 conveyances, aggregating 90,447.86 acres, at a valuation of @99,615.48, an average of $5.52 per acre. For the twelve months ending August 15, 1901, including 24 con-veyances of land in Michigan, amounting to 972.1: acres, at a valua-tion of $5,135, there has been approved 346 conveyances of land, amounting to 31,274.08 acres, at a valuation of $187,602.06. INDIAN LANDS SET APART TO MISSlONARY SOCIETIES AND CHURCHES. Tracts of reservation lands set apart during the past year for the use of societies and churches carrying on educational and missionary work among the Indians are as follows: TABLE1 1.-Land8 set apart on Indian ~eserualionsf or the use of veZiriou8 societies from August $1, 1900, to A u p ~Stf , 1901. Church or society. ( Date. I Acres. I Reservedon. - aoman Catholic church ............................... sept. 26 19W Board Home missons, Presbyterian churoh ........... oot. 26:1901 DO. .................................................... do ....... DO. ..................................................... do ....... DO.. ..................................................... do ....... -D o ............................................. NOT. 15,19W DO ....................................................... do ....... Roman Cstholie Chumh ........................................... d o ....... Trustee8 gublio sehuol district No.5, Vdley mnnty.. do ....... Mennonite Misrionaruwteg ........ :... ............. Jan. 9,1901 Domestic and Foreign Mlmonary xoclety of motes- an. 23,1901 a n t E ~iscooaCl hurch. 1 / Do. ....... :. ...................................... I . d ....... 1 DO. ........................................................................................................... d o ....... DO.. do ....... Bowd H~meMisionsm. 8byterian Church ............ Jsn. 26,1901 Do ............................................. Feb. 12,1901 Americ.a.n.. B..a.p..ti.s.t. H..o..m..e. M...is.s.i.o.n. .S.o.c..ie..ty... ............................ ..J.u.l.y l3,1901 Do do ....... - UO. ...................................................0 .............. Women's Baptist Home Mission Sodety of Chioaga ....... do Methodist Episcopsl Churoh ........................... Aug. 27,1901 '2 Osage Okla. 2 G11& $iver,~riz. 1 DO. S DO. 2+ Salt River Aria. 40 Fort ~ e c k : ~ o n t . 40 DO. DO. 40 40 DO. 40 DO. ? MoqDuOi,. Aris. + 160' Ro~ebud,S.Dak. 40 DO. 44.M Do. - 60 DO. 1 Pueblo N.Mex. 39.47 Port pi&, &font. 80 Kiow~,Okl~. 40 DO. 40 DO. 160 DO. 5 Round Valley, Cal. I On agency reserve. IRRIGATION. The Indian appropriation act for the current fiscal year contains an appropriation of $100,000 for construction of ditches and reservoirs, purchase and use of irrigating tools and appliances, and purchase of water rights on Indian reservations, and authorizes the employment of not exceeding two superintendents of irrigation, who shall be skitled irrigation engineers. The appropriation for the year ended June 30, 1901, was $50,000, with a siniilar provision for the employ~nent of superintendents. Under this provision two superintendents were employed-George Butler on the Shoshoni or Wind River Reservation, in Wyon~inga, nd John B. Harper on the Pucblo and Jicarilla reservations, in New Mex- |