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Show REPORT OF THE: COXMISSIONER OF INDIA? AAFFAIKS. 107 should be taken byCongress with a view to compensating the Indians for the loss they had sustained by i.eason of the erroneous survey. As the laud thus segregated from the reservation was agrionltural, this of7ice deemed $1.25 per aore a reasonable compensatign for said 64,000 acres, making a, total of $80,000, and recommended that pay-rnetlt be made for the loss thus sustained, the amount to be expended for the benefit of the Indians under the direction of thesecretary of the Interior. The desired legislation v a s l~ostc eured until the passage of t l ~ eIn - dian appropriation act for the fiscal Sear ellding June 30,1802 (26 Stats., 1010), which contains the follorri~~l~gr orisiou: For the payment to the Siaseton and TWnhpeton bands of .Sions Intliaoa of D*vil18 Lake Reservation, in the State of North Dakota, for 8ixt.y-foor thousand acres of land (being at tho rate of one dollar trnA twentp-five cenfn per aore) to whioh they are jnstly eutit,led under treaty of Pebrnsry nineteenth, eight,een hundred and sixtg-aevon (fifteenth Statutes, tive hnudred nnd tire), LUG which were not included within their reservation boundaries, surye~edin eighteen houdred &nil seventy-five, this amount to be expended under the direction of the Seorelary of the Interior in the purchase of staok and agnoultural imimylernents, and iu promoting the comfort and iml,rovenaeot of said 1ndian{eightg thousand clollar~,t o be immediately available. A small portion of the money has already been expended io the pur-chase of seed potatoes and pork, and contracts have been let for 200 brood mares, 100 milch cows, 100 steers, 4 hulls, 75 plows, 100 sets of double harness, 50 set ox barness, an11 estimates have been sub~nitted for material and la.bor torepair 217 Indian houses, all to be paid for from the said $80,000. CHIPPEWA AND MUNSEE RESERVATION, IN KANSAS. By the first article of the treaty of July l G , 1869, with the Swan Crrek and Black River Chippewas, and the Munsee or Christiau In- . diaus of Kansas (12 Stats., p. 110.5), the United States agreed that the reserratioli of thirteen sections of land in Frankliu County, set apart for the elltire band of Swan Creek and Black River Chippewas, should inure to the benefit of that portion of said band then residing thereon, arlcl should also be a permanent home for the band of Munsee or Chris-tian Indians who by this treaty unit@ with the said Chippewas. Pro-vibion was made forthe allotme~o~f tl aud in severalty to these Indians, care being taken to respect the improvements of the Chippewas so far as it could be ,!one cousistently wit11 the rightsof tbe Munseeor Chris-tian Indiat~sa, nd 160 acres was set ay~l r tf or the establishmer~tofa mal~ualla l~osrc hool aud for other educational or missiouary purposes. These allotments were to be made in as regular and coolpact a body as po~sible, so as to admit of a distinct and well-defined i~ounclary around the whole tract, which was not toexceed seven sections of land; the intermediate parcels not included in any allotment to be held in com-mon, subject to distribution and assigunlent in severalty to the increase |