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Show COMMISSIONEE OF INDIAN A F P ~ B . 31 PURCHASES OF LANDS FOR CERTAIN INDIANS. Under the provisions of the Indian appropriation act approved August 1, 1914, there hive b.wn purchased for allotment to indi-vidual members of the wisconiin Band of Potawatomi Indians re-siding in pisconsin and Michigan 14,036.18 acres at a cost of $136,- 205.12, and the title to these. lands is now vested in the United States. Transactions involving' 960 acres of additional land, at a cost of $9,340, are still uncompleted, pdnding the curing of objections to the title. The act of August 1,1914, supra, contained also an item of $40,000 for the of lands for 'homeless, nonremoval Mille Lacs In-dians to whom allotments have not heretofore been made, witli which. 769.41 acres have been purchased, at a cost of $17,714.30. Trans-actions involving 1,437 additional acres, at a cost of $21,617, are in process of negotiation. , A suitable NO-acre tract, including rights in an .irrigation ditch sufficient to irrigate 150 acres thereof, was'bought, at a cost of $13,000, for the Camp Verde Indians in Arizona, under an appropriation of $20,000 made therefor in the Indian appropriation act for 1915. MISSION LAND. A number of treaties wherein Indian lands were ceded and reser-vations established contained provisions granting to religious de-nominations then conducting missions among the Indians (the organ-izations being specifically named) the right to occupy a stated num-ber of. acres of land required for church and mission buildings and for cemeperies in connection with Indian churches. In some cases title to the land was granted outright by the treaties; but there was no general provision applicable everywhere. It has been customary in the last 10 years, in the various acts ac-cepting cessions and authorizing a sale of surplus Indiqu lands, to include provision for the setting apart of lands required for mission purposes and for the patenting of such tracts. Lands set apart for such purpose in the last five years are as follows: Z Acres. lgll ........................................................... 1,282.68 1912 ........................................................... 154.5 1913 ........................................................... 139.23 1914 ........................................................... 241.8208 195 ........................................................... 296.9375 2, U5: 1683 OSAGE OIL AND GAS LEASES. On March 16,1896, the Osage Indians, through their tribal council,' made a lease to Edwin B. Foster covering the entire Osage Reserva-tion, about 1,500,000 acres, for oil and gas mining purposes for the |