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Show In this connection it is gratifying to note that there is a tendeney on the part of many of the non-rwrvation Indians to secure title to their homes. This is due to some extent to the fact that the country is faet settlhg up by whites, and the Indian see8 that he must make an efport to obtain apermanent title,or he will be dispossessed by the whiteman; bnt in many instances the Indian voluntarily seeks a home for himself and family. ' QO?DElSSIONS AUTHORIZED BY AOT8 OB LAST CONGRESS, ETC. Pocatello townsate, Idaho.-The fourth saction of an act of Congress approved September 1,1888 (26 Stat., 453), provided for the appoint-ment of three disinterested persons, two to be designated by the See-r e t q of the Interior, and one by the Indians of the Fort Hall Reser-vation, Idaho, ih open council, t(, appraise the lands on said Fort Hall Reservation ceded by the Fort Hall Indians to the United States for townsite purposes, and known as 6' Pocatello Townsite." Febrnmy 23, 1889, the Secretary of the Interior designated Michael 0. Connelly, of Petershnrgh, Ill., and Lilbon L. Oarli~leo,f Wichita, Eans.,as appraisers on the part of the United Statea. Mr. Walter P. Ramsey, fanner at Fort Hall Agency, having been designated by the Indians, in manner prescribed by said act, to act on their behalf, his selection was approved by the Secretary of the Interior April 26,1889. The instructions given to the appraisers were prepared ln the Gen-em1 Land Office, and the copy thereof which was intended for the ap-praiser nelected by the Indians was transmitted to this Office by the Becretary of the Interior February 28,1889, and by this OfEce to Mr. Ramsey May 1,1889. The snrvey of this land into town lots, as required by the act, is now in progress, and no further steps looking to the appraisement can be taken u~ititlh at snrvey is completed and approved. . Chippewa indims.-By act of January 14,1889 (26 Stat., 642), Con-gress authorized and directed the appointment of three commissioners, one of whom should be a citizen of the State of Minnesota, to negotiate with all the different band8 or tribes of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota for a "complete cession and relinqnishment in writing of all their title and interest in and to all the resermtions of said Indians in the State of Minnesota, except the White Earth and Red Lake Res-ervations, and to all and so much of these reservations as in the judg-ment of said Commission is not required to make and fill the allotments required by this and existing acts," etc. This commission waa appointed by the Secretary of the Interior Feb-ruary 26, 1889, and is composed of Hon. Henry M. Rice, of St. Paul: Minn.j Rt. Rev. 3lartin Marty, of Sioux Falls, Dak., and Joseph B. Whiting, of Janesville, Wis. Instructionsfor the gnidance of the eom-mission were prepared in this Offioe, approvchd by the Secretary of the Interior May 24,1889, and transmitted to Hou. Henry N. Rice May |