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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XLVII Choctaw Nation are subject to the permit laws, and allowed to remain ddurinx good behavior only. I SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That the national secretary shell furnish a, aertified copy of this to the Secretary of the Interior. And this aot ahall take effeot and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, May 21, 1883. J. F. MCCURTAIN, Principal Chief, Chocfato iVation. CREEK AND SE~INOLE BOUNDARIES. This subject has been fully discussed in the last three annual reports of this ofice. Recommendation was made the past year for an appro-priation of $3,000 for the survey of the outboundaries of the 175,000 acres of Creek lands purchased by the United States for the Seminole Indians. Congress did not see fit to make a separate appropriation for this specific work, but in the Indian appropriation act, approved July 4,1884, the sum of $50,000 was appropriated for the survey of Indian reservations, out of which sum the expenses of the survey to determine and establish the outboundaries of this purchased tract of land will be paid. RESERVOIRS AT THE HEADWATERS OB THE MIsSISSIPPI RIVER. In addition to what was submitted in my last Annual Report (page LVUI) on this subject, to which I invite your attention, I have now to state that the Commission, consisting of R. Blakey, esq., vice General Sibley, resigned, ex-Governor W. R. Marshall, and Rev. J. A. Gilfillan, appointed December 22,1882, to review a former valuation of damages to Indians, &c., with e view to a reassessment, if in its judgment the injury incurred in the construction of reservoirs was greater than the oompensation heretofore allowed, submitted on the 4th of December, 1883, a report of proceedings with the findings or valuations of injury sustained by theIndians by reason of the construction of these reser-voirs at Lake Winnibigoshish and Leech Lake, on the headwaters of the Mississippi River, via: Lake Winnibigoahisb and ~ a a s ' ~ a k e : Injury to personal property .............................. $1,936 50 Iqiury to tribal property ................................. 3,649 58 $5,586 08 Leeoh Lske : Injury to personal property .............................. 105 00 Injury to tribal property .................................. -1,0-75 00 1,180 00 White Earth and Mississippi Chippewas: Pine cut ........................................................... 3,272 10 -10.0-38,18 Annual damages to these Indians: For rice destroyedat 10 cent8 per palmd ................... 8,610 For hay destroyed at 828 per ton .......................... 9.800 - - 18,410-00 |