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Show REPORT OF THE COIWLIBBIONEE OF INDIAN APFAIRS. 95 to visit those settlers and obtain from them deeds conveying any land to which they have any right or title and the improvements thereon. The settlers who executed agreements for the sale of lands and im-provements are as follows: Elbridge D. Weston, $800; Robinson John-son, $300; Thomas Wood, $750; George Wood, $115; John H. Sprague, $8400; Ernest E. Sprague, $250, and Martha V. Wood (n6e Sprague), $350. When the deeds shall have been obtained and approved by the Department, payment will be made to these settlers and thus the sub-ject of settlers within the Northern Cheyenne Reservation will be closed. WADSWORTH TOWN SITE IN PYRAMID LAKE RESEKVA-TION, NEV. A clause contained in the Indian appropriation act approved July 1, 1898 (30 Stat., 571-594), authorized the inhabitants of the town of Wadsworth, in the county of Washoe, State of Nevada, " to proceed and acquire title to the town site of such town under the provisions of section 2382 of chapter 8 of the Revised Statutes of the United States." July 12, 1902, this O5ce reported to the Department that the inhab-itants had taken no steps under the act to obtain title to the lands occupied by them, and recommended that a survey and plat be made of the town site and that the lots therein be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of section 2384 of the Revised Statutes. The matter was referred to the Commissioner of the General Land O5ce for report and recommendation, which were duly made; but because of uncertainty as to the precise location of the town, he was directed, September 19, 1902, to take such steps as were necessary to determine definitely its location with regard to the approved plats of survey. On March 20, 1903, the Commissioner made a report, based upon the report of the examiner of surveys, who had made an exam-ination in the field, and stated, among other things, that a change in the t m k of the railway would leave the town of Wadsworth 2 miles from the main line, and that inasmuch as the town was supported wholly by the railway company's repair shops at that point, the pres-ent town site would probably be abandoned. April 14,1903, the Department advised the General Land O5ce that in view of the fact that the inhabitants of the town of Wads-worth had taken no steps as contemplatedby the act of July 1, 1898, it was believed that it was not necessary or desirable under all the circum-stances to proceed in this matter under section 2384 of the Revised Statutes. Thus the matter rests. |