than they just want to keep their small inherited interests. Several of our lands are in complicated heirship status and we are trying to get the Indians to dispose of these, if possible, and we have encountered some difficulty. In several instances where several of the adult heirs applied for sale and the balance gave their consent and there were incompetents involved, authority had to be obtained from. the central office to advertise and approve the sale (congressional act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 855), as amended, 26 U. S. Č. 372). The said congressional act gives the Secretary of the Interior authority to dispose of trust lands in heirship status without the consent of all of the owners. (b) We have had some difficulty affecting the acquisition and disposal of Indian lands where an undivided interest was owned by nonIndians. Particularly one tract, a Pawnee allotment, wherein an undivided one-fifteenth interest is owned by a non-Indian, who is now deceased, and now owned by the decedent's heirs and their heirs and cannot be located due to diverse addresses and when advertised for sale covering an undivided fourteen-fifteenths interest, it does not attract bidders after they have communicated with this office and find who the owners are of the undivided one-fifteenth interest. We have not been able to sell or partition on account of the diverse addresses of the owners of both of the interests. We sold a tract of land in Kay County belonging to a deceased Tonkawa Indian wherein a non-Indian owned an undivided one-ninth interest and the purchaser has not yet been able to purchase this remaining one-ninth interest. The purchaser owns an undivided eight-ninths interest and the nonIndian owns an undivided one-ninth interest. In some instances, the non-Indians owning undivided interests have disposed of their interests to other non-Indians. (c) Not applicable. The five tribes under this jurisdiction are not subject to the benefits of the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984; 25 U. S. C. 461-479). (d) We have encountered some difficulty of reaching agreement among all heirs as to use or disposal of lands on complicated heirship cases. To lease for farming and grazing purposes, it is sometimes necessary to advertise for 30 days to the highest bidder by sealed bids and after obtaining at least 50 percent of the signatures of the adult heirs to a lease, the officer in charge executes the lease on behalf of the balance of the heirs under his authority. If the heirs will not agree to partition or disposition of land by advertised sale, the case is dropped until some agreement is reached. (e) If there are other heirs involved in heirship lands when the owners have died intestate and have left minor or incompetent heirs and the adult competent heirs desire to dispose of the land through supervised sale, and submit their application, it is advertised for sale and when sold, the sale is approved pursuant to authority delegated by Secretarial Order No. 2508 of January 11, 1949 (14 F. R. 258-260), and Order No. 551 of the Commissioner, Bureau of Indian Affairs, dated March 29, 1951 (16 F. R. 2939), and fee patent is issued by the Bureau of Land Management to the purchaser. However, we do have some heirship lands where the owners died intestate and left minor heirs and they are being held in trust or restricted status. After the minors have reached majority, they make use of the land by leasing or apply for sale and use the proceeds for living expenses and to improve their homes. None of the tribes are financially able to purchase such lands, either as a tribe or individual. PART II-PAWNEE Not applicable as we have no key tracts under this jurisdiction. PART III-PAWNEE The tribes have not assumed responsibility for real estate activities. 1 through 8. We have no tribal real estate employee; the tribe does not have a regularly employed real estate advisor or consultant to advise the council with regard to tribal real estate activities; the tribal organization does not have a real estate committee with authority to approve tribal real estate activities; the tribal organization does not have a real estate committee which advises the tribal council with regard to tribal real estate activities; they have not employed private consultants to study particular phases of its real estate activities; they have no tribal land enterprise or similar organization. DISPOSALS-REMOVAL FROM INDIAN BUREAU JURISDICTION BY PLACING OF UNRESTRICTED FEE-SIMPLE TITLE IN OWNERS 1 On June 26, 1956, the Solicitor rendered opinion holding this 160-acre tract to be property of the Tonkawa Tribe of Indians rather than property of the Federal Government (M-36353 IO-9365). 32 40.00 2 Sales to other Indians other than an heir to allotments but to Indians under this jurisdiction. Town properties. 1 On June 26, 1956, the Solicitor rendered opinion holding this 160-acre tract to be 2 USA issued quitclaim deed covering 6.75 acres to W. J. Liles and Viola B. Liles, to be transferred outright to the Kaw Tribe of Indians pursuant to special legislation 388.43 acres was quitclaimed to city of Pawnee, Pawnee, Okla., on Oct. 5, 1954, Public |