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Show I 176 INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO, take the liberty of repeating them more fully, and adding such others as better information will authorize. In the first place I would r e p t f u l l y recommend that a treaty be made with the Utahs, reaffirming that of 1849, with alterations of the 7th and 8th articles, so as to specify the amount of implements and presents to be given to the Indians annually, and describing ac- , ' curately the boundary of the country to be inhabited by them. I . . would also make treaties with the several bands of the Apaches, by which the Jicarillas should be removed from our border settlements to the country of the Gilas or Mescaleros, and the latter band should re-linquish all claim to the valley of the Pecos above a given point. These treaties should also clearly define the boundaries of each tribe, with restrictions against their committing depredations, &c., &c., such as are contained in the Utah treaty, and specify the amount of agri-cultural implements, provisions, and other presents which they are to receive annually for a given number of years; and a similar treaty should be made with the Navajoes also. All these treaties shouldcon-strain the Indians to cultivate the soil; and to enable them roperly to do so, practical farmers should be furnished by the United k tates to teach them, together with blacksmiths to make and repair their tools. And I would also provide that the amount of depredations com-mitted by any tribe or band should be deducted from the annuity stipulated to be paid to such tribe or band, as is provided by the 17th sectionof the intercourse act of 1834. Should this policy be adopted, it will be necessary that our govern-ment should furnish liberal supplies of food and agricultural imple-ments to the Indians during the first two years-say to the amount of $61,600 for the first year, $40,000 for the second, and $30,000 each year thereafter for several years. Such supplies are deemed absolutely necessary to enable the Indians to subsist themselves until their crops shall mature, and they are taught to cultivate the soil; otherwise they must either starve or steal. Particular care should be taken that the provisions furnished should be issued to the Indians as often as once a week, else their improvident and wasteful habits will cause them to want supplies before the year is half ended. As regards the PuebloIndians, I can but reoommend them and their possessions to the protection and fostering hand of the. government. They are a loyal people, and richly deserving our sympathy, but buried in ignorance and superstition. Hence I would most earnestly recom-mend the establishment of schools by the government in each pueblo, and that they be supplied with agricultural implements of American manufacture every spring for several years. to come. Should it be deemed too much to arrk fbr the establishmen6 of a school in each pue-blo, still it is hoped that several may be authorized. Annexed hereto will be found a paper marked B, containing a statement of the injuries done by the Indians to the people of San Mi-guel county during the present year. This is made up by me from official information, and reports of theprefect of said county. No official reports have been received from either of the eight remaining ' counties of the Territouy; but the injuries and losses are believed to be |