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Show REPORT OF THE CO3IJJISSIONER OF ISDIAN dlTAIRB. LY east of said divisia~~alilu eau \rill comprise within said described bonnnaries ouehuu- . dred and seventy-five thousarid (17.5,000) acres, at the price of one dollar ($1) per acre; seidceapiou to be in £1111 force and effect when tlre snm of 01~bh~1~drmedd ~eveutx-fiveth ousaud dollars shdl hare beau deposited iu the Treasary of the United Btntes to the credit of the Creek Nation, to draw interest at the rate allowed in the trea,tg of .I>ule 14, 1866, wherein certainof their lauds in Iudiau Territory were ceded to the United States; and one-third of' said fund shall ir? forever set aside for ednea-tional purposes, and the remaining two-thirds shall be anhjjeet to such us* as the Creek Couocil shall determine. WARD COACHMAN, PLEASANT PORTER, DAVID JI. HODGE, Cveeli Deleflation. \V~s~zlsc~Do. sC,. , E'ebvualg 14, 1881. With this report was ~i~bmi t tetdhe draft of a bill to accept and ratify said agre,ement, providing that the Secretary of the Treasury should set apart and hold as a perpetual fund, as provided in theagree-ment, in trust for the Creek Nation, the sum of $175,000, to bear inter-est at 5 per cent. per annum; aud also providiug that the lands ceded to the United States should be set. apart for the exclusive use and occupancy of the Seminole Xation of Indians, to be held by the same title as tlrey hold t,heir lauds n~tderth e treaty of March 21, 1866, when the Seminoles should have relinquished to the United States the same quantity of land from the west side of the present reserve, and when. said relinquishment should hare been approved by the Secretary of the Interior and duly recorded in this office; aud providing, fur-ther, for an appropriation of $3,000, or so much thereof as might be necessary, to establish the onthoundaries of said areas of land. By the deficiency appropriation act of August 5, 1882, the sum of $375,000, as per a,greenleut made February 14,1881, in pursua~loe of the act of March 3: 1873, mas appropriated to pay the Creek Nation of Iridians for 175,000 acres of land now ocoupied hy the Seminole Nation. As no a.ppropriation na,s made to pay the expense of a survey of the oatboiu~darieso f said p~~rchasaen, d the necessitj- of establishing per-ma~ lenbt oondary lines, clear l~de tining the divisional line between the Seminoles and Creeks! is apparent, I recommend that an appropriation soficient to enable the department to establish said boundaries be made, which ~hoiilcl be in additiou to the $100,000 asked for in the regular estimates. FREEDMEN IN INDIAN TERRITORT. The rights gnaranteed to the freedmen in the Iudiau Territory by treaty stip~~latiohuas re been ignored, aud so far as their iuterests are involved the treaties themselves have been virtually set aside, both by the Indians and by the government. Cherokee Nation.--Ey the fourth article of the Cherokee treaty of July 19, 1566 (14 Stats., p. SOU), a tract of conatry in the Cherokee |