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Show 66 BEPOBT OF THE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. sale of the year being the sale of the Cherokee Female Seminary, with 40 acres of land at Tahlequah, to the State of Oklahoma for $45,000. HURON PLACE CEMETERY. The Wyandotte treaty of 1855 (10 Stat. L., 1159) provides (article 2) that : The portion now inclosed and used as a public burying ground shall be permanently reaerved and provided for that purpose; twoacrea, to include the church building of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the present burying ground connected there-with, are hereby reserved, granted, and conveyed to that church. The cemetery first mentioned is the cqmetery now known as the Huron Place Cemetery situated in the heart of thebusiness district of Kansas City, Kans. The grant to the Methodist Episcopal Church covers a cemetery located at Quindaro, Kans. The act of Congress approved on June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 325, 348), provides for the sale of the Huron Place Cemetery and-the removal of the remains of persons interred in said burial ground, and their rein-terment in the Wyandotte Cemetery at Quindaro, Kana. When the department attempted to carry out the provisions of , the act of Congress it was discovered that the original Indian hfetho-dist Episcopal Church had gone out of existence, and the cemetery was in the hands of another organization claiming to be the successor in interest. In any eu-ent, the United States had no jurisdiction over the ceme-tery, and without making some arrangement that was not contem-platsd by the law the removal could not be made effective. As a result of t,lris difficulty nothing has been done. The I5uron Place Cemetery should be sf~ldb,u t in order to carry out tho intention of Congress an appropriation of not less than $10,000, reimbursable, should be made for the purpose 01 enabling the com-mission which will have charge of the transaction to pay t.he cost of removal and to make arrangements to transfer the bodies from t.he Huron Place Cemetery to the Quindarn or some other cemetery where the reinterment can be made in a proper manner. The present law does not make available any money until the Huron Place Ceme-tery tract is sold, and it makes the problem of disposing of the matter very difficult, because so much expense must. be incurred before the sale of the land can take place. REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. Under the act of Map 27,1905 (35'Stat. I,., 312), entitled "An sct for the removal of restrictions from part of the land of allottees of the Fivecivilized Tribes, and for other purposes," 1,744 applicntions were approved and 443 disapproved during the past fiscal year. |
