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Show I 8 . s EEPORIP OF THE COMMISSIONEB. There is no agency-house in the Kanzas country, and from the remote location of the Indians they cannot often be visited by their agent. These people are not inclined to till the soil. The males will not work. The females make some patches of corn with the hoe; but these Indians rely principally on their annuities, the chase, and theft, for support. They are adepts in the art of stealing, and their location is such, being on the leading Santa F6 road, that they annoy the trains ' which pass that way. Complaints are loud against these Indians, not only from the white people who pass through their country, but from all the neighboring tribes. A change of their location and residence is demanded by every consideration connected with their advancement, and is due to the vast number of our citizens who suffer from their dep-redations. The tribes embraced in the Sac and Fox agency are the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, the small band of Chippewas, of Swan Creek and Black river, and the Ottowas, of Roche de Bceuf and Blwchard's fork. The Sacs and Foxes are a wild, roving race, depending almost P entirely on the chase for subsistence. They have heretofore strongly resisted the introduction of schools or missionaries among them, and have made a steady and powerful effort to maintain all the manners, customs, and traditions of their fathers. Recently a portion of them have expressed a desire to attem t to cultivate the soil, and enter-tained conversations in relation to t TI e employment ofteachers and mi+ sionaries ; they have also promised their agent to refrain from the use of ardent spirits, in which they have, to their great injury, freely indulged. The Chippewas and Ottowas depend for subsistence on the culti-vation ofthe soil, and are comparatively in an adv~ncedst ate of civil-ization. It is the opinion of their agent that they will this year have a surplus of agricultural productions. The Ottowas have adopted a sim- 1 ple code of laws for their government. The Weas and Piankeshaws, Kaskaskias and Peorias, and the Miamies, constitute the tribes of the Osage River agency. No official report has been received from the agent in charge of t h e ~ eIn dians. In the month of September, while on his way to the Sac and Fox agency, that officer met with an accident, which caused his absence from his agency at the period of the year when these annual reports are made up. The Weas and Piankeshaws, Kaskaskias and Peorias, are known to be doing reasonably well. They depend principally on agricultu~e - for their support. The Miamies are not doing well. Their village is so cunvenient to the white settlements that they have at all times the opportunity to gratify their appetite for ardent spirits, and they may be s a ~ dto indulge liabitually and very freely in its use. The Chippewas, Ottowas, Weas and Piankeshaws, Kaskaskias and Peorias, and the Bliarnies, all complain of the depredations of the Sac and Fox Indians, and express the hope that they may be removed far away from them. There is no doubt but the complaints of these small tribes are, to a considerable extent, well founded, and that the location I of the Sacs and Foxes in their vicinity has been injurious to their in- t-P-T-P-F-t-<" . . By a provision contained in an act of Congress, approved the 3d of |