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Show with the agent and to enter suit for change of title; but no action appeirs to have been taken in the matter. The uncertainty regarding the legal status of the Indians and the jurisdiction of their lands has resulted in frequent trespassing by neighboring whites and consequent friction between them and the Indians; and on June 25,1907, the O5ce again brought the subject to the attention of the Department with a view to bringing about a formal transfer of the legal title held by the governor in trust, and the trusteeship of the lands of the Indians, to the Secretary of the Interior and his successors in ofice, as directed by the legislation of 1896. On July 26, 1907, the governor was requested to execute the necessary deed or deeds; the Department of Justice was asked to instruct the United States attorney for the northern district of Iowa to bring suit to quiet title in the Sac and Fox tribe to the lands deeded in 1857 to Governor Grimes, and the superintendent of the Sac and Fox school was directed to execute deeds of conveyance in all cases where he is trustee, formally transferring the lauds and the trusteeship thereof to the Secretary of the Interior, and to cooperate fully with the officers of the Department of Justice and the State of Iowa. L'ANSE AND ONTONAQON TIMEER LANDS. Two years ago I referred in my report to the suspension of action, at my instance, on nearly 200 deeds executed by members of the L'Anse and Ontonagon bands of Chippewa Indians, in Michigan, ' covering timber lands. An appraisement of these lands during the smmner of 1905, by J. R. Farr, superintendent of logging in the Indian Service, showed that the lands were worth from three to four times the amounts for which the deeds were executed; and on this representation of the facts the President, on' November 7, 1905, dis-approved all the conveyances. The grantees in the deeds then offered to pay the difference between the sums named in the deeds and the appraisal and asked for an opportunity to submit proof of goods furnished and money paid on account of the original purchase prices. . . This was granted. kfter a delay of several months they submitted sundry receipts for money and unitemized bills purporting to be for goods delivered; but since the Indians denied that goods in the quan-tities indicated by the bills had been delivered to them, and declared I that many of the money receipts did not represent actual payments or were greatly in excess of the amounts paid, I insisted upon more satisfactory proof from the grantees. It was not furnished; and the Department being convinced that none of the evidence submitted , constituted satisfactory proof of payment, all was rejected. The purchasers under the disapproved deeds were notified that unless they deposited, within thirty days, the amount of the appraise- I |