Let me state thereason for it. Abillwaspassed some seven or eight years ago authorizing it to be sold in smaller tracts. but people would not go and settle around the Indians when they could get lands as cheap or cheaper off a distance from them. The object now is that we may get. if possible. persons to emigrate in colonies and go and make their own settlements where they will not be isolated from society. Th land was offered at that time and only three hundred acres were sold at the very same figures we put in this bill now. because people would not go there and settle. they would not buy at two dollars and a half an acre as a matter of speculation. and they would not today. but if they could settle on it together they would. We put into this bill first that it maybe takenup in smaller tracts if the people desire to do so. but if they do not. then it can be sold as a body so that the land can be settled and. the money put out on interest for the Indians.
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