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Show I lxx FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF Judgment reversed and cause remanded, with direotions to enter judgment in favor of defendant8 for their costa. PATER~OJ. N, We concur: MCFARLANDJ,. , SEA-, 0. J., SHARPBTEW, J., MCKINBTRY, J., TEMPLE. J. Many other difficult qnestions in connection with obtaining and re-taining lauds for Mission Indians remain unaffected by this decision. Reservations are still undefined, and many Indians occupy landsor are entitled to occupy them which 're not included within any reserve. In-truders have "sqnatted" upon lands which Indians have occupied for generations. While these intruders can acquire no title to the lands upon which they are trespassing, they can enjoy profitable occupancy thereof, and can not be removed therefrom by this office because the lands are not reservations. The Indians are accustomed to imposition and encroachment, and are not accustomed or qualified to enter and proseonte suits for ejectment. Orders for the removal of intruders from Mission Indian reserves, mentioned in the last annual report, have been faithfully carried out by the agent. His report thereon will be found on page 12 of this report. A hill to determine the r i g h~osf a l l parties as to these reservations, which passed the Senate during the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con-gresses, was again passed by the Senate Ma.rch 20, 1888, and is now pending before the House Committee on Indian Affairs. Irrigating ditches and canals have been conetrncted across several small Mission reservations ; and as the agent has contracte? with the parties making these improvements fan the maintenance of the same with proper safeguards for the interests of the Indians, it is believed that thecanals will be a benefit to the Indians. As there was no author- . ity of law for the making of these contracts, they were transmitted to the Department with the recommendation that Congress be asked to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to approve the same and to make similar contracts. This recommendation was made upon the theory that these reservatious need not stand in the way of'the development of the surroundiug country, thus creating greater prejudice against the Indians than already exists, but that, with the rights of the Indians properly protected, improvements of this character may be made of serv-ice to them as well as to the white population. ROUND VALLEY RESERVATION, IN OALIFORNIA. As stated in the last annual report, orders were given on May 25, 1887, for removal from the Ronnd Valley Reservation of all parties found to be unlawfully thereon. September 30,1887, Agent Pates telegraphed thatwhile hemas pmceedingto eject settlers by military force as directed, |