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Show 190 REPORT OF THE these are decided I fear the lawyers engaged and the officers of the courts mill have claims for fees sufficient to cover all that the two pueblos are worth. After concludins the treaties of meace with the Mohuache Utahs and ~~~ ~ ~ Jicarilla ~~aches,-thesIen dians sirrendered to me four Mexican boys who had been made prisoners during hostilities, who have been re-stored by me to their friends. I also delivered to the Jicarillas three of their people made captive by our troops, and will in a few days re-store to the Mohuaches several children of this tribe captured by us. Within the last year I have enclosed to yon a large amount of claims of the citizens of this Territory for depredations charged to have been committed by the Indians. Many of these claims are doubt-less good and valid against the government, and as the claimants are in many instances poor, and can illy afford to wait longer for their money, I would recommend their speedy adjustment. And as it is utterly impossibly for the Indians to make restitution or satisfaction for these depredations, and to make a demand as the law requires would prove a source of great irritation, and would be attended with some cost, without any corresponding benefit arising therefrom, I would respectfully recommend that the intercourse act be so amended as to dispense with demands for satisfaction of claims arising previous to the conclusion of the late treaties. I herewith enclose you the annual reports of Agents Dodge and Myers, the only two thus far received, and also my annual estimates. 1 I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, D. MERRIWETHER, Governor and Suv't of Indians Affairs in Nezu Mexko. L " ." Hon. G. W. MANPPENNY, Commissiw of Indian Affairs, Washington City, D. 0. No. 95. [Translation.] ABIQUA~G ENCYN,E WM EXICO, CalZon de Reniio, August 31,1855. SIR: I have the honor to report that, about the first of this month, I collected the Capote Utahs and the principal men of the Navajoes that live in the Capote Utah country. I brought these Indians into my agency at Abiqniu on the 8th in-stant, where they mere to meet his excellency Governor Merriwether, and after they had expressed their desire to remain at peace with the United States, all the principal men of the tribe signed a treaty of peace with pleasure, as presented to them by his excellency, obligating themselves to commence cultivating the soil in the spring of the com-ing year. They understood me, and were satisfied with each article of the treaty. |
