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Show 68 COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. approved by the President 277 conveyances of land, amounting to 18,084.13 acres, at a valnation of $65,371.76, an average of $3.61 per acre. Between Angnst 15, 1903, and August 15, 1904, there were approved by the President 24 conveyances of land by the former band, amounting to 1,681.40 acres, at a valuation of $5,095, an average of $3.03 per acre. Between August 15,1903, and August 15,1904, there had been approved by the President 2 conveyances of land by the lat-ter band, amounting to 174.45 acres, at a valuation of $415, an average of $2.38 per acre. The total sales of land. by these two bands of Indians are 303 conveyances, amounting to 19,939.98 acres at a vdna-tion of $70,881.76, an average of $3.55 per acre. Chippewa of Lake Superior, Wisconsin.-The last annual report of this Office stated that up to August 15, 1903, there had been approved by the President 20 conveyances of land made by members of the Bad River and Red bauds, under the treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Stats., p. 1109), amounting to 1,195.99 acres, at a valuation of $7,563.50, an average of $6.32 per acre. Between August 15,1903, and August 15,1904, there were approved by the President 4 conveyances of land by the Bad River band, amount-ing to 200.45 acres, at a valuation of $1,797.90, an average of $8.88 per acre; 1 conveyance of 80 acres by the Red Cliff band, at a valna-tion of $400, an average of $5 per acre, and 1 conveyance of 100.60 acres by the Lac Courte Oreille band, at a valuation of $2,000, an average of $20 per acre. The total sales of land by these three bands of Indians are 26 conveyances, aggregating 1,577.04 acres, at a valua-tion of $11,761.40, an average of $7.46 per acre. Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River bands of Chippewa, Michigan.- For the twelve months ending August 15, 1904, tnere have been approved by the President 7 conveyances of land by those mem-bers of said bands, designated in the third article of the treaty of October 18, 1864 (14 Stats., p. 658), as "not so competent," amount-ing to 172 acres, at a valuation of $1,776, an average of $10.03 per acre. TABLE1 4.-Rempilulation of sales qf Indian lands, under acts of Cagress, prim- to May 27, 1.902. Indians. Convey- Citizen Potswetomi. Oklehome .......................... Absentee Shawnee OUahoma ........................... reoris, 1ndisn ~e r ; i tory.. ................................ Nimi Indian Territory .................................. wyandot. Indien T e r r i t o.~.. ............................ L'AnseChippewa. Miohigm ............................... Ontonagon chippews, Mlehlgan ......................... Bed River Chippew*, Wisconsin .......................... Red Cliff Chippewa, Wisconsin ........................... Lac Courte Oreille Chippewa Wi4cpnsin. ._......._...., Saginaw, Swan Creek, a n d ~ i a c k ~ l vCehrip pewa, Mlchi- I Total ................................................ I 126 1 10,291.14 1 92,923.25 1 9;UZ9 |