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Show 60 REPORTS OR THE DEPARTMENT OR THE INTERIOR. cash accounts to the Auditor within the period of sixty days allowed by the law for administrative examination; and all property accounts were examined and practically settled within ninety days after their receipt without interference with the succeeding quarter's accounts.7 Under existing regulations the cash and property accounts, with few exceptions, are rendered promptly and with greater accuracy and -- . completeness than has been the rule hitherto. This Office is often asked whether Indians can be naturalized and how they become citizens. There does not appear to be any author-ity of law to naturalize Indians. Title XXX of the Revised Statutes of the United States relates to naturalization, and section 2169 is as follows: The provisions of this title shall apply to aliens (being free white persons) and to aliens of African nativity, and to persons of African descent. Section 6 of the general allotment act, approved February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), provides that every Indian born within the ter-ritorial limits of the United States, to whom allotment shall have heen made under the provisions of that act or under any law or treaty, and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States who has voluntarily taken up, within those limits, his resi-dence, separate and apart from any tribe of Indians, and has adopted the habits of civilized life, shall be a citizen of the United States and entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such citizens 8-8 OF INDIAN LANDS. IREEBITED LAND& ' From JGe 30, 1904, to June 30, 1905, there were sold, under sec-tion 7 of the act of May 27, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 275), 978 separate tzads of inherited lands, embracing 90,214.97 acres, for the total sum of $1,393,131.52. The first sale under that act was approved March 4,1903, and from that date to June 30,1904, there had been sold 1,236 tracts, embracing 122,222.52 acres, for the aggregate sum of $2,057,- 464.50, at the average price of $16.83 per acre. The average price of the land sold during the last fiscal year is $15.44. This decreased average price is probably accounted for from the fact that the better class of land was the first sought by pur-chasers. For instance, last year two tracts of Pawnee land were sold, one of 39.59 acres for $37,950 (nearly $1,000 per acre), and the other of 80 acres for $28,300 (more than $350 per acre). Taking these facts into consideration, the average price obtained this year would appear satisfactory. |
