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Show LXVI REPORT OF THE COMXISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. is required in carrying out the inte~itionso f the department in respect to the Indians of that section. The reservat,ion is no longer needed for India11 purposes, and, by the direction of the President, the agency has been finally abandoned, and a considerable portion of the public prop-erty and supplies appertaining thereto has already been removed. The remainder will be disposed of in such manner and at such time as may seem to be most advauta,geous. A memorial from the legislative assembly of the 8 t h of Oregon praying for the restoration of the lands included. in this reserve to the public domain, for pre-emption settlement and sale, was referred t,o this office in Febuary last by the chairman of the Sellate Committee on India11 Affairs. The proposition to dispose of the lands in the manner therein indicated did not receive the approval of the office, and it may be well to add that any plan looking to the disposal of the reser-vation that does not coi~teluplatea nd provide suhstant,ialr eturn to the Indians, for vhose sole benefit it was established and set apart, should not receive the sanction of the department. These Indians will need assistance in the future in their efforts at self-support, and t,he pro-ceeds of t.he sale of their reservation will, if properly invested, afford such assistance, and relieve the government of the burden. The res-ervation contains 1,778,000 acres. The Indians who formerly occupied it are either at the Yakama Agency, in Washington Territory, or in the vicinity of Camps BCcDermott and Bidwcll and the town of Winne-mucca,, where they meagerly support themselves by labor among the whites or by cultivation of the soil. I UNATILLA RESERVATION-TOWN OF PENDLETON. The town of Pendletou, Oregon, adjoins the Umatilla Indian Reser-vation on the north. Indeed, the northern line of the reservation runs through the town, so that a considerable portion of it is withiu the reser-vationlimits. A tract about 30 acres in extent, forming a part of theland claim of M. E. Goodmin, the original proprietor of the town ~ i t e ,a c-quired under the pre-emption laws, and for which patent was issued by the gal-ernment August 30, 1869 (the reservation was established by treaty in 1855; proclaimed April llth, 1859), is within the reservation, and is occupied by substantial warehouses, stores, residences, &c. Other boildings, including lL Odd Fellows Hall:' a large school-house, tenement-houses, and residences, are within the reservation lines, where no shadow of title to the land exists. Land is much needed to meet the growing necessities of the town, and it appears that there is none to be had elsewhere than upon the reservation. A petition numerously signed by citizens of Pendleton was referred to this office by your predecessor, and was made the subject of a report to the department in May last. The petitioners ask that the title to the Goodwin tract lying within the reservation be quieted, and that |