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Show 16 REPORT OF THE the Indian tribes west of the States of Missouri and Iowa, for the pur-pose of securing the assent of said tribes to the settlement of the citizens of the United States, upon the lands claimed by said Indians, and for the purpose of extinguishing the title of said Indian tribes, in whole or in part, to said lands." Since the date of that act, and prior to my being honored with the charge of this branch of the public service, treaties were made with the Poncas, Pawnees, Omahas, and the Ottoes and Missonrias, of Nebraska ; and with the Delawares, Shawnees, Ioways, Sacs and Taxes, Kickapoos, Wyandotts, Miamis, and the confederate bands of Kaskaskias, Porrias, Piankeshaws and Weas, of Kansas, and by which the titles of those Indians were extinguished to 25,479,198 acres of land, which have been thrown open to settlement by our citizens. Those treaties provided, as far as prac-ticable, for the accomplishment of the objects of the new policy, but some of the tribes persisted in still retaining much too large a quantity of land, and refused to relinquish the right to their annuities in money. Hence the necessity for a modification of the treaties in these cases, whenever the Indians can be induced to consent thereto. In Kansas, where good land and timber have become so valuable and desirable, so long as they continue to hold, as some of them still do, far more than they can occupy and use, it will be impossible to protect them from coastant intrusion and spoliation, bywhich they will be continually fretted and harassed, and their improvement seriously interfered with and delayed. Only one agent is provided by law for the Pawnees and the confed-erated tribes of Ottoes and Missonrias, who, under the late treaties with them require the constant attention and services of an agent, but they are so widely separated as to render it impossible for the dnty to be performed in a proper manner by one person, a large portion of whose time is necessarily occupied in traveling between the tribes, at considerable expense to the government. As a measure of economy and necessity, therefore, I would respectfully recommend that an ad-ditional agent be provided for, so that there can be one for each of those tribes. And, for the same reasons, there should also be another agent for the Omahas and Poncas, they being also separated so far apart that one person cannot perform the necessary services required for both. So urgent have been the circumstances requiring additional assistance for the management of these Indians and their affairs, the department bas been compelled, to avoid difficulty and a breach of our treatv enganements towards them. to emnlov snecial aeents for the L " L " ~ awi e e s& ;Pi oncas. The great and sudden influx of population into Kansas, embracing a large class of persons having but little regard for the obligations of I law, and none what.ever for the rights and welfare of the Indians, has rendered the administration of the affairs of this branch of the nnblic service in that Territory peculiarly embarrassing and onerous. Con-stantly recnrring complaints and difficulties, growing out of lawless conduct of the whites towards the Indians, rendered it expedient and advisable that I should visit the territory, in order to become personally acquainted with the actual condition of things, to ascertain what rem-edies could be devised for the better protection of the Indians and their rights ; and what further measures, if any, conld be adopted for their |