Doesn't Belong To Ohio

bitty vean ago tne state t oma soiq i certatn section (one Bqnare nille) of land in Séneca caunty to. private purcliasers. under the Impression tlmt it was one of the sections granted to the state for school purposes. Some years later the claim was raised that it was the property of the Seneca tndians, and not of the state, and that therefore the sale was illefíil. The case has been haiiKiiiK in the land ufliee ever slnce. it is now occupled iy twelve or fourteen luhabltantSj who have [nproved farms, and it had Uil recenth anestlmated valuc of about Siso, 000 for farming purposes. Lately, however, otl lia been dtecovered in tlie aelghborbood, and the valne is presnmed to have mUly Increaaed, The COmmÍ8Sloner of the general land office has reportad to the tecretary at the interior tli.it tilla BOCtkm was undoubtedly a portlou of the land cwted to the United States, to lic sold tor the benefit of the Indians, and thal the state of Ohionever luid atiy rlght to it. He recogntzes, however, the equlty of the claim of the occupants who pnrchased in gcod faith, and hetherefore recommends that the govoinor of Ohio be called apon to 6how caise why the land should not li' sold tor the benefit of tlit IndlanSi