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Show Under acts- of August 15, 1894 (28 Stat. L., 295) ; May 31, 1900 (31 Stat. L., 247) ; June 10, 1896 (29 Stat. L., 343) ; and June 7, 1897 (30 Stat. L., 72), and under treaty stipulations, there have occurred during the fiscal year 1907 the following- Sales of indim lands not inherited. Tribe. ahswnee. .............. :.. .................................. Absente.e..S.h.a..w..n.e.e.. .................................................................................. . Peoria Miami ...................................................... GLtizenPOtawatomi.. ....................................... Chippewas. L'Ame, eto ..................................... Chippewas, swinaw, eto .................................... Miscellanea us... ............................................ This sahedule does not include a number of deeds in which the con-sideration is only nominal, such as transfers between members of the same family for '' $1, love and affection," quitclaims, etc., nor does it include the sale of certain lands of the North Carolina Cherokees and + the Puyallup Indians mentioned below. SALE OF EASTERN CHEROX.EE LANDS. B~ deed dated October 4,1906, the Council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina sold to Messrs. %rt C. Ward and Elihu Hutton 33,000 acres of land in Swain County, N. C., " on the waters of the Ravens Fork of Ocona Lufty River," known as the "Love Speculation tract; " also an adjoining tract of 2,000 acres. The consideration for the 35,000 acres-$245,000, or $7 an acre--was made payable, $5,000 in cash on the acceptance of the offer and the execution of a deed for the lands in fee simple, $19,500 in sixty days from the date of deed, and the remainder in nine equal annual pay-ments of $24,500 each, all deferred payments to bear interest from their date at 5 per cent payable annually, and to be evidenced by notes,of Wirt C. Ward and Elihu Hutton, secured by a deed of trust or mortgage on the land, executed by them to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians or to such trustee of the band as it might appoint. This deed was approved by the Department on December 12, 1906, and plans were adopted to govern the superintendent in charge in handling the money received in payment of the notes. SALE OF PUYALLUP LANDS. Since my last report the Office has collected for the Indians of the Puyallup Resirvation in Washington $27,595.94 deferred p a ~ e n t s on sales of allotted lands, $15,119.82 deferred payments on sales of Indian addition lots, $45,932 for railway right of way over certain lots in the Indian addition to the city of Tacoma and damages to |