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Show 60 BEPOET OF THE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN .OF~IRS. SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO. On the 29th of December, 1904, C. J. Crandall, superintendent of the Santa Fe School, forwarded to this Office a deed, dated December 22, 1904, from the officers of the pueblo of San Ildefonso, in New Mexico, in their corporate capacity, conveying to the United States for $50 1 acre of land therein described for a site for an Indian school. This deed was returned to him on April 7, 1905, for an ab-stract of title from the proper court of record, showing the title of' the conveyors to the land. No such abstract was received; but on July 17, 1905, the Acting Attorney-General submitted a letter from the United States attorney for the district of New Mexico, relating to a proposed sale and conveyance to the United States, by the " con-stituted authority " of' the San Ildefonso pueblo, of 2 acres of land within the pueblo for a'school site. The Acting Attorney-Genera1 doubted whether a deed from such '' constituted authority " would pass a valid title and advised a resort to condemnation. proceedings, as suggested by the district attorney. On Kovember 7, 1905, the Office expressed its opinion that the trouble and expense incident to condemnation would be too great to justify the Government in en-bring proceedings for that purpose. Afterward this matter received my closer personal attention. A visit to the spot satisfied me that some action ought to bg taken to obtain a site for a school in that pueblo, and that condemnation proceedings seemed to hold forth the best means of procuring one. I therefore made a supplemental report to the Department on June 8, recommending that the Attorney-General be requested to issue the necessary instructions to the district attorney for New Mexico to confer with Superintenden; Crandall as to the site, and institute con- , demnation proceedings at once. On December 18,1906, the superintendent reported that cdndemna-tion proceedings had been instituted in the court of the first judicial .. district at Santa Ee; that the judge had rendered an order approving the report of the commissioners appointed by the court to condemn the school site, and that the United States would come into full pos-session on the payment of the $10 awarded by the commissioners. The $10 was paid and $5 each was paid to the three commissioners for one day's service. A contract was let last April for the construction on this site of two adobe buildin-one containing a schoolroom and industrial room for 30 pupils and the other a five-room dwelling for the teachers; INSTITUTES. Under the authority of the Department, local Indian school service institutes were held during the last fiscal year at the, Standing Rock |