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Show 6 EXTRACT. opportunity of applying to that body for relief; and, as tke Cherokees do not want the land, I would recommend the passage , ~ af law au-thorizing this land to be surveyed and sold as other public lands, and tlie proceeds paid over to the Cherokees. As it is expressly stipulated in the treaty of New Echota that the lands ceded to the Cherokees "shall in no future time, without their coment, be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory,'' provision should be made in the law for obtaining the assent of the Cherokees as a condition precedent to its taking effect; and, with a view of securing such asseat, and preventing any future conflict of jurisdiction, the boundaries of Kansas should be so modified as to make her southern line coincident with the northern boundaries of the Cherokee neutral land and the Osage reservations, asprotracted on Mr. Calhoun's map. The same error was committed with respect to the northern boundary of the Osage reservation, and as there are settlers upon the strip em-braced between the treaty line and Mr. Calhoun's line, and their condi-tion is in all respects similar to that of the settlers on the Dry Woods, I would recommend that the nrovisions of the law be extended to the Osage reservation. L The Shavnees, Miamies, and the confederated bands of Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, belong to that class of Indians whose lands have been divided among the individual members of the tribe, and are@eld in severalty. These individual reservations do not fall within the limits of a tribal reservation, hut are scattered among the white settlements, and the Indians are consequently exposed to all the erils resulting from unrestrainedintercourse with the whites. They are not only maGng no progress, but are rapidly deteriorating; and I feel confident that, unless they are removed from their present location, they will disappear altogether in a short time. I would recommend that anthority be given to this department to sell their lands, with their consent, and, with the proceeds, purchase them a home, either in the Cherokee neutral land, or in some part of, the Osage reservation. No doubt is entertained of the feasibility of this plan, and it offern the double advantage of removing the Indians fi.om influences that are surely working their rlestruction, and reliev-ing tlie futnre State of Kansas from the burden of a large pauper Indian population. Besides, it will open to settlement some of the richest and most productive lands in Kansas. Indeed, I am not sure but that it woulcl be advisable to remove all the Indians of Kansas, and locate them upon the unoccupied portion of the Osage reservation. It would relieve Iiansas from an incubus, and allow the Iadians a fair opportunity of working out a future for themselves, unrestricted by the interference of the whites. Appropriations were made, at the last session of Congress, to enable tho department to negotiate treaties with the Arrapahoes and Cheyennes, and with the Chippewas of Red Lake and Red River. To carry o i~tth e wishes of Congress, the Arrapahoes and Cheyennes were notified to assemblc at Fort Bent, (now Fort Wise,) and the Commis-sioner of Indian Affairs was instructed to meet them there. The Arropai~oesm et the Commissioner, but only two or three cliiefs of the Cheyennes were able to be present at the appointed time. The |