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Show r 12 REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. that the latter would not be able to proceed with him to attend to the contem-plated business, and accordingly went alone to Fort Klamath, where he found the chiefa of the Klamaths and Moadocs friendly and expressing a willingness to go upon a reservation. Their number is said to he some twelve or fifteen hundred. An arrangement was made by which a formal grand conncil was to be held October 8, 1864, at which, it is presumcd, a treaty of friendship was made, though no official advices have been received. The sum of $10,000, one-half of the appropriation made by Congress, was placed at the disposal of Superintendent Huntington to enable him to carry out the design of the law. On receiving his reply to the o6ce letter of June 22, 1864, in which he shows clex~.lyt he impxsibility of inclnding in the same t r e a v the Klamlth and Moadoc Indians, and the Snake3 and others of southeastern Oregon, the furt,her sum of $10,000, being the balance of the appropriation by Congress, was placed at his disposal, and he wasauthorized to use so much of it as should he necessaTy for the purpose of effecting a treaty of amity with the southeastern Indians. The military operations of the summer have resulted. it is understood, in such unishment of the hostile tribes that they will he willing to treat, and he induce%to observe the terms of any treaty made with them. We may then hope to see the end of the long courseof expensive hostilities with ths Indians of southern Oregon, and to find the great highways of travel safe for those who frequent them; while the Indian.! themselves may he expected, under I their new relations to the government, to participate in the great benefits to be derived from their being reclaimed from a wandering life and settled upon reservations, which have resul~ed so happily in the case of their brethren in the northern and western portionsof the State. CALIPORAIA. i In order to avoid numerous difficulties and much expense which have resulted in past years in the administration of Indian a@&irs in California, from the ex-istence of two snperintending agencies, both having their headquarters at San Francisco, an act was passed at the last session of Doogress, entitled "An act to provide for the better organization of Indian affairs in California." This act provides for the establishment of one superintendency for the State. I t alao provides for reducing the number of reservations, so that there shall he not ex-ceeding four, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase the improvements of such settlers as may be lightfully upon any of the reserva-tions ; a report of the appraisements of these improvements to be made to Con-gress, that appropriations may be made to pay for them. For each of the reser-vat, ions finally established one agent is authorized to be appointed. All offices not authorized by this act are abolished. Under the provisions of this act Austin Wiley, esq., was appointed :superin-tendent, filed his bond and oath of office May 26, 1964, and entered upon his duties. From the reports submitted by him, and accompanying this, it will be seen that much has already been done to bring the affairs relative to the In- \ dians of that State into a more satisfactory conditnn by theadoptionof thepolicy recommended in my last annual report. From Superintendent Wiley's last communication, with which were forwarded sketches of the fdnr existing reservations, it will he seen, that the aggregate amount of land reserved is 31,761 acres, much the largest portion of which is in the Mendocino reservation, which is recommended to be abandoned. I do not include here the reservation provided for in the treaty wit11 the Hoopa Valley Indians, though those Indians are named in the following enumeration. There were upon the reservations, at the date of Mr. Wiley's last report, the following number of Indians, viz : Smith River, 745; Round Valley, 950; Mendocino, 750 ; Tule River, 800 ; Hoopa Valley, 600 ; total, 3,845. Upon these reserve i |