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Show R,EPORT OF TllE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XLVII approved August 7, 1882 (22 Stat., 328), "to negotiate with the Siolix 1udia.n~fo r such modification of existing treaties and agreements with said Indians as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Seo retary of the Interior," rendered their report to the Department during the latter part of Jannary last. The report, together with a copy of the agreement negotiated with said Indians, was submitted to the Presi-dent under date of Febroary 1,1883, and trans~nitted to Oongress on February 3 following. By the terms of said agreement the Great Sioux Reservation, having &-, area estimated by recent compatatiou at 36,124a square miles, or 22,470,680 acres, was to be broken up into five smaller independent reservations, to be occupied by the several bands sepa-rately, ther severally agreeing to accept the saine as their permanent homes, relinquishing all right, title, and interest in and to the reserva tions assigned to the. other bands, respectively, reserving to themselves only the reservation set apart. for their separate use and occupation. The Eve reservations to be retained under the conditions of the agree-ment are estimated to contain about 19,238 square miles, leaving an area,, according to tho foregoing estimate, of 16,8869 square miles, or 10,187,360 acres, which the Indians cede to the United States. The principal consideration for this important cession of territory consists of ca,ttle for breetling purposes. The other considerations be-ing, as remarked by the con~missionerss, uch as are calculated to pro-mote the education and civilizatio~o~f the Indiaus, and they are in the main only a continuation of the treaty stipulations of April 29, 1868.' Congress failed to ratify the agreement thus made, but by act of March 3, 1853, appropriated the sum of $10?000 to continue the negoti-ations, with certain modifications of said agreement (22 Btat., 624). The wmmissioti as originally composed was authorized to continue the n.ork. The Iucliaus of the Crow Creek Agency, not h a v i ~ ~bege n parties to the a.bove-mentioned agreement made with the other bands, assented to the same by a subsequent agreement dated February 26,1883. By this agreement they became parties to the first agreement made, and a reservation of about 300,000 acres was retained for them within that part of t,he Great Sioux Reservation east of the Missouri River kuow~~ as the old Winnebago and Claw CreekReservationa. Thisaddsa?other to the reservat,ions to be retained, makiog six in all. The final report of the commission lias not been sulimitted as :et. DEYIL'S LAKE RESERYATION. Red.uotion of Port To'nttcn ilfilitary Reservation. Until very recently the Devil's Lake Reservation in Dakota pre-sented the singular featura of being divided into two unequal discon-nected parts by the military reservation of Port Totten, which, em-bracing a strip of country six 111iles wide, running from the lake on the |