COMPILATION OF RETURNS TO PT. II OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS QUESTIONNAIRE DIRECTED TO (1) How much acreage and how many tracts have been sold that (2) How much acreage and how many of the tracts alleged by the (3) How much acreage and how many tracts alleged by the tribe (4) How much acreage and how many tracts alleged by the tribe (5) If there were sales of key tracts to non-Indians discuss the (6) Discuss the extent to which key tracts which were in fee (1) How much acreage and how many tracts have been sold that the tribe, individual Indian owners, or the (2) How much acreage and how many of the tracts alleged by the tribes or individual Indian owners to be key (3) How much acreage and how many tracts alleged by the tribe to be key tracts were sold to the tribe or indi- (6) Discuss the extent to which key tracts which were in fee status have been acquired in trust or restricted status by individual Indians, or in trust or fee status by the tribes. DATA ON PRIVATE LAWS GRANTING FEE PATENTS TO 1 INDIANS 1 Hon. RICHARD L. NEUBERGER, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Washington, D. C., July 3, 1958. Chairman, Indian Affairs Subcommittee of Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. (Attention: Mr. James Gamble.) DEAR SENATOR NEUBERGER: The attached lists represent what we have been able to gather from the face of the statutes, in response to your request for data on private laws granting fee patents to Indians. You will notice that in a number of instances the land covered by the grant is described by township, section, etc., but without indicating specific acreage involved. We have been in touch with the Indian Affairs Office at the Interior Department on this point, and have tentatively been given to understand that if they were furnished the data such as we have gathered they could supply the figures on acreage. In view of the urgency which you have expressed, we are sending our findings forthwith, with this explanation, which you will perhaps want to follow up with Mrs. Vassil, code 183, extension 2940. There are 86 private laws listed, in 20 of which no specific acreage is mentioned. The 66 which do give a specific figure total 36,354.01 acres. Sincerely yours, ERNEST S. GRIFFITH, Director. 1 COMMITTEE NOTE: Attached report was sent by the Library of Congress to the Department of the Interior for the necessary additional data. 67 |