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Show 124 BEPOBT OF COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. In 1889 the State of Washington was admitted into the Union, and one section of its constitution asserts title in the State to all tide and shore lands, while another section of the constitution disclaims any title to lands embraced within an Indian reservation and lands patented by the United States. In 1893 the State of Washington enacted legislation looking to the sale of its tide lands, and in 1906 the tide lands were sold by the State? including the land lying between the western boundary of the reser-vation as shown on Governor Stevens's map and the western meander line of the reservation as shown by the public survey. This land, and that added to the reservation by executive order of September 6, 1873, is now the subject of conflicting claims by the Puyallup In-dains and the grantees of the State, and forms the basis of the claim for which they entered into the contract with Mr. Bedford; and suit to recover these lands is now pending in the circuit court of the United States for the western district of the State of Washingtnn. , Very respectfully, your obedient servant, |