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Show EXTRACT PROD, THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR IN RELATION TO INDIAN AFFAIRJ. Detailed information in regard to the operations of the Indian Office during the past year, and the present condition of the various tribes of Indians within our limits, will be found in the report of the Com-missioner, which, with the accompanying documents, is herewith submitted. In reviewing the results of the policy pursued by the government oE the United States towards the Indian tribes within their limits, it should he borne in mind that, while the same general relation exists between the United States and all the tribes, that relation has been modified in respect to many of them by treaty stipulations and acts of Congress, and as these modifications vary in each case, and often in essential particulars, the subject becomes complicated, and the diffi-culty of subjecting the Indians to a uniform policy greatly increased. With the wild tribes in the heart of the continent, in Arizona: and in California, constituting, possibly, the majority, we have no treaties whatever. With respect to poliw, then, it is obvious that the Indians must be divided into two classes-those with whom we have treaties, , and those with whom we have not. In the case of the former we are -clearly bound to be guided by treaty stipulations; in the case of the latter the government is free to pursue such a policy as circnmstances 1 may render expedient, subordinate, of course, to those general princi- : leo which have beeri declared in the statutes and sanctioned by the gupreme Court. Again, the treaty or annuity Indians may be arranged in two divi-sions. With one we have treaties of amity, and we pay them annuities, either in money, goods, or provisions, or perhaps all three, for a longer or shorter period, but without recognizing their title to any particular tract of country. We not only pay annuities to the other, hut we recognize their title to particular tracts of conntry, described by metes and bounds; and guaranty them undisturbed possession of the same forever. This latter class, again, must be subdivided into those who hold their lands in common, whether in fee, or by the usual Indian title, and thoae whose lands are held in severalty by the individual members of the tribe. There is yet asfurther distinction to be made between those cases where the several reservations are in a compact |