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Show 68 BEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. PATENTS IN FEE. The act of May 8, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 182), authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee simple to allottees whom he considers competent to manage their own affairs. Under this act 753 applications for patents were approved by the department up to September 1,1907. Fromthat date to September 1, 1908,2,281 applications were received, of which 2,050 were approved, the patents issued covering a total area of 183,418.12 acres, which was divided anlong the agencies and tribes as follows: Paterits in fee issued from Nepternber 1, 1907, to August Sf, 1908: Reserration or tribe. p&d. Denied. Area. ---- Area. .rson.. ............................................................... 1 ........... 120. W Cma Creek ............................................................ 13 I ........ ..I 2,288.44 Cheyenne and Arapaho.. ............................................. 66 18 9,923.67 Cheyenne and Arapaho, 8eger Colony ........................ ,. ...... 1 4RO.W Devils Lake ..................................... ;. .................... 1 399.21 Qrande Ronde ........................................................ 1 2,055.02 Kick&poo, Kansas ..................................................... 1 $8 670.21 4 6.124.82 .. 79Y.01 5 5,718.02 286.25 1 2,049.74 !6 1 6,168.34 ......................... ................................... ........ Lower Brule ........................................................... La Pointe .............................................................. Nez Peroe ............................................................. 3 1 Omaha ............................................................... . i Oto ................................................................... .......... 8W.W Oneida ............................................................... 21 17,027.84 Preitie Band Potswatomi ........................................... .......... 574.20 Ponw ................................................................ .......... 83R.05 Pawnee ............................................................... .......... 1 071.02 Fin* Ridge ........................................................... .......... 2'565.70 Rosebud.. ............................................................ .......,... n:176.35 ahawnee ............................................................. 26 11,192.86 Southello Ute ......................................................... .......... 160. W sec and FOX. genes. ....: . .......................................... ........;:.I sSiaienttae e... .............................................................................................................................. sisseton ............................................................... Sac and Fox. Oklahoma ..................... r ........................ : Btanding Rock ....................................................... Umatilla ............................................................. Wilite Earth .......................................................... Winnebago.. .......................................................... j Yankton .............................................................. Yakimn .............................................................. -..........- 2.1 52.15 211 I 1 a : 4 1 i x SALES OF INDIAN LANDS. Recent legislation has modified, as I have already 'noted, the proc-ess of selling Indian lands under any existing law, except in Minne-sota. Oklahoma or South Dakota. ~ h ~ f i rssectti on of the act of Mag 29,1908 (35 Stat. L., 444), pro-vides for the issue of a patent in fee simple, at the instance of the Secretary of the Interior, in the name of the purchaser, for the lands purchased. The interest of any minor may be sold on petition of his natural guardian if he have one, and the interest of an orphan minor, |