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Show 64 REPORT8 OIP THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. the submission to the Department, for disapproval, of all the deeds where the consideration was less than the value ascertained by Superintendent Farr, the vendee to be allowed to present new deeds which should show the consideration named by him and be accom-panied by proper certificates of deposit or other exchange. SAGINAW, SWAN CREEK, AND BLACK CHIPPEWA, MICHIBAN. For the twelve months ending July 15, 1905, there have been approved 3 conveyances of land by the members of these bands or their heirs, who are designated in the third article of the treaty of October 18, 1864 (14 Stat. L., 658), as "not so competent," the total sales amounting to 240 acres, at a valuation of $560, an average of $2.34 per acre. CHWEWA OP LAKE SUfEBIOE, WISCONSIN. The annual report of this Office for 1904 said that up to August 15 of that year there had been approved by the President 26 conveyanas of land made by members of the Bad River and Red Cliff and Lac Courte Oreille bands, under the treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Stat. L., 1109), amounting to 1,577.04 acres, at a valuation of $11,761.40, an average of $7.46 per acre. Between August 15, 1904, and July 15, 1905, there were'approved by the President 5 conveyances of land by the Bad River band, amounting to 370.18 acres, at a valuation of $4,341.80, an average of $11.73 per acre. No conveyances of land have been made by the other two bands since August 15,1904. The total sale of land by thase three bands of Indians are 31 con-veyances, aggregating 1,947.22 acres, at a valuation of $16,103.20, an cverage of $8.27 per acre. Land sold by heirs of these bands of Indians have already been referred to under the head of "Inherited lands." UNBBTIPIED AGREEMENTS. The agreements mentioned in the last report of this Office as pend-ing before Congress are still unratified. These agreements are: With the Sioux of the Lower Brul6 Reservation, S. Dak., concluded May 6, 1901, ceding the western part of their reserve, embracing 56,000 acres. With the Yankton Sioux in South Dakota, concluded October 2, 1899, providing for the cession of the Red Pipestone Quarry Reserva-tion in Minnesota, containing a little more than one section of land. With the Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation, N. Dak., nego-tiated on the 25th day of June, 1902, by which they ceded to the United States 208,000 acres of land. |
