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Show 80 COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AELFFAIRS. proximately 15,000 are in northern California, 1,800 being on In-dian reservations. It is estimated that there are from 3,500 to 4,500 Indians who are unprovided with reservation lands, allotments on the public domain, or otherwise. Forty-three purchases have bean made for the benefit of these Indians, placing title to approximately 6,600 acres in the united States, at a cost of $144,470.45. About 2,500 of these Indians have been provided with homes. These purchases were made mainly from appropriations in the acts of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 325533), and April 30, 1908 (37 Stat. L., 70-76), which were supplemented by succeeding appropriation acts. The Indian appropriation act for the past year specifically appropriated $10,000 for the purchase of land for landless Indians in California, and the same amount was made available by joint resolution of March 4 1915: continuing the Indian appropriations for the present year. A list of the 43 purchases showing the number of Indians, acreage, and amount paid will be found in Table 30 of this report. PATENTS IN PEE. Patents in fee are issued to Indian allottees, and the heirs of de-ceased allottees, under the provisions of the ads of May 8, 1906 (34 Stats. L., 182), and June 25, 1010 (36 Stat. L., 855). During the year patents in fee were issued under said acts covering an area of 124,116.36 acres, of which 61,114.47 aeres, or about 50 per cent, covers land allotted to Turtle Mountain and P i e Ridge Indians. The Tur-tle Mountain Indians are allotted partly in North Dakota and partly on the public domain in the State of Montana. SALE OF RPDL4Ii LAND. The sale of allotted and inherited Indian land is authorized by the acts of May 27, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 245), March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1015), May 29, 1908 (35 Stat. Z.,44 4), June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. L., R55), and February 14.1913 (37 Stat. L., 678). +he act lest mentioned extended the provisions of the act of June 25, 1910, to Oklahoma, with the exception of lands belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Osages, so that since the passage of this act patents in fee simple can be isqued to purchasers of Indian lands in Oklahoma, with the exceptions noted. During the year 1915 sales have been made covering an area of 102,675.54 acres, involving a consideration of $1,300,303.08. The average price for which the land sold was $12.66 per acre. The year previous the office sold 947 tracts, involving 90,768.30 acres, for $652,- 815.50, or a little over $17 per acre. A great amount of land was sold on reservations where the average price was about $5 per acre, which reduced the general average. I |
