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58Tm CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
2d Session. No. 1232.
SCHOOL AND INDEMNITY LANDS IN THE GREAT SIOUX
RESERVATION.
FEBRUARY 25, 1904.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state
of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. MARTIN, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 56.]
The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 56) to authorize the State of South Dakota to select school and
indemnity lands in the ceded portion of the Great Sioux Reservation,
submit the following report:
When South Dakota was admitted into the Union, in 1889, nearly
one-half of its area was included in what was known as the Great
Sioux Indian Reservation. By act of Congress of March 2, 1889
(25 Stat. L., 888), a large portion of this reservation, embracing
8,997,515 acres, *as ceded to the United States and opened to settle-
ment under the homestead and town-site laws. No other laws were
made applicable to the disposal of these ceded lands. Certain prices
per acre were exacted from the homestead settler. By act of Con-
gress of May 17, 1900 (31 Stat. L., 179), the requirements of a
money consideration from the homesteader were removed, and since
that date these lands have been subject to free homestead entry upon
payment of the usual fees and commissions.
There is still quite a quantity of school-indemnity land due the State
of South Dakota. The areas from which this school-indemnity land
can be selected is now quite limited. One purpose of this bill is to
permit the State to select school-indemnity lands from this ceded por-
tion of what was formerly the Great Sioux Reservation. An additional
purpose of the bill is to extend the general provisions of the public-
land laws over this same area. This would permit the disposal of these
Government lands by the usual methods applicable to the public lands
elsewhere.
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