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Show 56 REPORT OF TBE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. act of March 3,1591 (26 Stat. L., 8X), was 4,301. Since then the papera on file in 20 claims have been transmitted to the court. Ten claims have been reported as having been previonsly transmitted to Congrens, and miscellaneous information bas been given relative to 12 claims. No new claims have been filed during the past year, and, deducting the 30 claims that h.ave been disposed of, 4,271 are still left iu this office to be disposed of in accordance with that act. The following appropriations have been made for the payment of judgments of the Conrt of Claims, rendered ill pursuance of said act of March 3,1891, viz: $478,252.62 was appropriated by act of July 28, 1892 (27 Stat. L., 319); $175,000 was appropriated by act of August 23,1894 (28 Stat. L., 476); $200,000 was appropriated by act of March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 869), and 849,687.86 was appropriated by act of June 8,1896 (29 Stat. L., 306), making a total of $902,940.48. The records of this office show that up to Augnst 25,1896, judgments have been paid and charged against the sums above appropriated to the amount of $825,039.60. The judgmentd paid as above indicated do not include those paid from the tribal funds of different tribes, in accordance with section 6 of the act, amounting approximately to $15,000. DISTURBANCES IN JACKSON8 HOLE COUNTRY, WYOMING. The killing by white men of three members of &peaceable hunting party of Bannocks in the Jacksons Hole wuntry, Wyoming, in July, 1895, and the arrest, fining, imprisonment, and confiscation of property of other Bannocks, all because of their violation of Wyoming game laws, were narrated at length in my last report. For convenient refer-ence hereafter I have deemed it wise to add this year a detailed account of what has since occurred relating to this affair, including the decision of the Supreme Court in the case. The Indians were hunting for sub-sistence under their treaty of July 3,1868, bnt in the test case brought before it the Supreme Court decided that the treaty right of the Sho-shones and Bannocks of the Fort Hall and Wind River reservations to hunt in the Jacksons Hole country was terminated by the admission of Wyoming Territory into the Union as a State. September 11,1895, this office submitted to the Department evidence, rcceivedfrom the United States Indian ageutof the Fort Hal1 Agency, of the wrongs that had been committed upon the persous and prop-erty of the Bannocks in the Jacksons Holeconntry; and asked, in view ot article 1 of the treaty of July 3, 1868, with these Indians, if some-thing could not be done by the Department of Justice toward puuish-ing the offenders. September 24,1895, the Attorney-General inforuled this Department that he had lcagain taken under consideration the question of prosecuting the whites who committed the outrages upon the Bannock Indians in the Jacksons Hole country," and that the |