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Show 36 COMMISSIONER OF IMDL4N AFFAIRS. Court for decision. Although this ease does not diredly involve any territory except that ceded by the treaty of 1855, the decision will in ail probability control by andom in all the ceded territory, except that covered by the treaty of 1863 which relates to the territory surrounding the Red Lake Reservation. The reasoning of the court in granting the temporary injunction was in substance that the act admitting Minnesota into the Union, in 1858, contained the m a 1 provision that Minnesota was admitted on an equal footing with the other States of the Union; that neither that act nor the enabling act of 1857 nor the State constitution con-tained any limitation on the powers of the State under the former treaties; that one of the well-recognized powers of the other States was, and is, the police power to regulate the traffic of liquor within its border*hence, that the provision of the treaty was repealed by implication. Minnesota has admirable State laws for prohibiting the sale of liquor to Indians, and all that we are able to do until this matter now in court is settled is to present such evidence as we find to the State authorities, for their action in the State courts. GENERAL QUESTIONS OF LAW AND ORDER. Marriage and divorce continue to raise many perplexing quastions of law, but under circumstances that indicate decided progress. The determination of property rights in heirship cases is bringing home to the Indians the necessity of complying with State laws concerning marital relations. Thus the economic development that is taking place is having its effect. Throughout the reservations general conditions of law and order have been good. Through the efforts for suppression on the part of superintendents, gambling has steadily decreased for at least two years. The crimes and misdemeanors committed by Indians have been only such as may be expected in established communities with much more elaborate organization than exists on the reservations. INSPECTION. To keep every part of the Rield Service alert and in sympathy with the purposes of the office, and to stop abuses before they could grow, 18 traveling supervisors visited every part of the field as direct rep-resentatives of the o5ce. One or more of them inspected every juris-diction; in all they submitted 440 reports. Eight members of this staff gave their attention chiefly to supervising schools; seven were employed in making investigations; two looked after matters of con-struction and engineering; and one scrutinized allotment of land. Upon this force of supervisors falls the task of seeing that we 10% |