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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXVII I partment august 13,1884. The report of the Commission has not yet ' been rendered. XISSION INDIANS IN CALIFORNIA. I A. bill for the relief of these Indians, embodying substantially the ' recommendations of Mrs. Helen Ja,ckson, special agent (except that, for I the purchase of certain tracts of land), to which reference was madein my last annual report, was prepared and submitted to Congress, throngh the Department, m d passed the Senate at its last~sessioub, ut was not acted upon in the House of Representatives. Suits in ejectment have been brought against the Indians living in the San Jacinto Village, by the owner of the private grant within which it is situated. The Indians are defended by Messrs. Brunsou and Wells, special counsel emplojed by the Department of Justice. These cases have not yet (tome to trial. It is hoped that the bill referred to will receive favorable consideration in the House of Representatives during the coming session. THE PUMAS IN SOUTHERN GALIFORNIA. As was stated in my last annual report, a reservation was established (July 6, 1883) for the Yuma Indians at the coufluence of the Colorado and Gila Rivers, on the Arizona side, where it was. intended they should be gathered and assisted in agricultural pursuits. Subsequent inves-tigation, however, disclosed the unsuitableness of the tract selected, and besides the Indiana were found to be oppo~edto removal there. Accordingly, by Execntive order dated January 9,1884, the reservation was restored to the public domain, aud a new one established on the California side, in the extreme soothwest corner of the State. By the same order the Fort Yuma Nilitary Reservation was traus-ferred to the control of this Department, to be used for Indian purposes, in couneotiou with the Indian reservation; and, at the request of the Department, on the recommendation of t l~i so ffice, the militars post buildings have also been transferred by the War Uepartn~entf,o r Indian sohool purposes. A bill was introrlnce(1 in Congress at the last session (E. R. 1661) "to provide for the establishment and maintenance of an Indian sohool at. Ynma, in Yulni~C ounty, Arizona, and to make an appropriation therefor." It is uo~lerstood to have been favorably re-ported by the House committee, but no final action was reached. It appropriates the sum of $9,000 for the pnrpose. The Pumas are a very peaceable andindustrious people, and ought to receive some assistance from the Go~ernmeut. KLAMATH R1W.R INDIANS IN CALIFORNIA. The work of allotting laurls in severaltj to the Indians of the Ela. math lliver Reservatio~i~n C:~lifornia,1 1s directed in Department letter af Marolb26, 1883, has been suspenclrd liw the present, owing to errors discovered in the poblic surveys within tho reservation, particulars of |