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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXVn Eastern Miamis.-In my last report I stated that the payment of t.he principal sum due to the Eastern Miamis July 1, 1880, was necessarily delayed until nearly two years had elapsed, but that interest had been paid for one year after it became due, viz, for 1881. A short time ago, in compliance with my recommendatiou, theDepartment authorized the payment of all the balance of interest still dne and provided for, which was according!^ computed on each share of this principal sum up to and inclusive of the various dates on whieh the payments were made during the year 1882. In the cases of several who were not paid until after the expiration of t h ~f~iscta l year a full year's interest was allowed. These payment,s altogether amouuted to $6,3G7.01, leaving to be covered Back into the Trrasury $4,695.88 of the $11,062.80 interest provided for the gear 1882. Thus, with the exception of one share of the priucipal sum still unpaid, the owner not having been found, a final settlement of this indebtedness will be made. Sac and Pox in 1owa.-Several of the Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa s%ill refuse to receipt for their shares of their annuity, which shares are aet aside for them and will remain on the books of this office to their oredit for the present. Since my last report $10,000 more has been paid to these Indians on sccount of their back and current annuities, uml at their request the Department authorized $10,000 more to be expended in the purchase of land for them. Abut $9,300 was thus expended, leaving about $700, whieh it was found coulil not be fio used to advantage. Wit.h this bal-ance they wish their chiefs and head men to pay some tribal indebted-ness, and the Deyartment has i~pprovedo f its being given to them for that purpoae. They will thus have received $60,000 of annuity since January, 1882, and, with the exception of about $4,800, all that is so due to them up to the end of the fiseal year 1883. Winnebagoes in. Wi.%onsin.-Twenty-fire hundred dollars were appro-priated by the last Congress, as suggesteil in my last report, fhr the purpose of completing the census of the Winnebago Indians in Wiscou- 8in, as required by the act of January 18,1881, and an agent was ap-pointed in April last by the Department for this duty, in whicll he haa aince been continuously engaged. These Indians are very much sca,t-tered over the State, and in most cnses families hare had to be personally visited wherever located. This a,nd t,lle careful exan~ination into the ~Gghtso f all cl&ming to he enrolled, and of the records of the Land Wce as td homesteads said to be taken up by them in compliance with the above-mentioned act, and in assistiog those \vho had not located homesteads to do so, has consun~edm uch time and necessarily delayed the work; but i t is i~own earing Eompletion. From the reports I have received in reference to the present habite md condition of a great majority of these Indians, and the well.kno\\.n character of many of the whites who surround them, I am convinced that to pay into their hands any considerable part of the money referred |