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Show 8 REPORT OF THE COXMISSIOiYER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. tions from the department, the reservations above provided for are to be selected this fall. De lawa~e s :O oncluded Jul"v 4. 1866: ratification advised Julv 26. 1866: and procl~in>edA u#nct 10, 1806. This trihe !.no fibr mnny yrat.3 L ~ : c , t r friendly to [he: wbitt.s, mid has 1.x1~ibitt.d a commr~.dohle dizpwi~ion tc,a,.lrd~ inlpror, - uent ill civilieation. 31anvof them an.well educsr~d. .s ovnk nod write 1:neliclt . with fluency, and cultivatefine farms to good advantage. The majority ofY the tribe, however, do not seem to profit, as might be expected, from their advan-tages of location and the large income of their trust funds. They have become satisfied that, although they have sold most of their large tract of land, and ac-cepted allotments in severalty,. they cannot live peaceably and pnisper in the neighborhood of the whites. Two years ago they made a treaty providing for the sale of their lands to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, on condition of the building of a railroad .from the month of the Enw river to Leaveilworth ; but che treaty was delayed in the Senate for various reasons, and meantime another company had hnilt that railroad. The treaty now made and ratified provides for the sale of all tlie remaining lands of the tribe in Kansas, about 100,000 acres, to the 1\Iissouri River Railroad Company, except such as is held by Indians who may elect to remain iu Kansas arid become citizens. A new home in the Indiau country is to be selected for such as decide to remove, and detailed provisions are made for the progress towards citizen~llip of thoso who remain; and the purchase, from their own funds, of a home for those wlio will remove. Provisious are also made for the settlement of certain claims of the Indians against the government. We come now to the series of treaties made with the tribes or nations resident in the Indian country south of Kansas. In the annual report of this o6ce for 1865 a very full statement and report was made of the couferences at Fort Smith, Arkansas, resulting iu a preliminary treaty with those tribes, by which general terms of peace were established, they having to a greater or less extent engaged in the rebellion against the government, axid it was agrecd that dele-gates slrould be sent to Washington far the purpose of concluding formal trea-ties with each tribe or nation for the settlement of all questions of difference arising from the war, and for re-establishing the Indians upon their lands, uhder clearly defined provisions, applying to all classes of their population. With this -nuru.ose in view. the Cherokees.. Cre-eks. ~Sem inoles. and (i'hoclaws and Ohicka- ~ - saws, appeared in this city in~anua1.y1~86 6, by thei~.repre~entativdeus ly chosen, there being double delegations in some cases, respectively representing t ~ o ~a r t i e sin eachnation-those who had remained loval to the eovernment and true to their treaty stipulations, and those who ha& taken the rebellion. These negotiations were carried on, on the part of the government, by the Com-missioner of Indian Affnirs iu connexion with Colon01 E. S. Parker, and Super-intendent Sells. Four principal points came up for settlement, to wit : The proper and just method of adjusting affairs betwean the loyal and dis-loyal, this point applying especially to the Clierokees, where confiscation laws, passed by the national council, had taken effect upon the property of those who were disloyal. The proper relations which the freedmen should hereafter hvld towards the remainder of the people. . A fair compensation for losses of property occasioned to those who remained loyal by the disloyal party. Cession of lands by the several tribes to he used for tlie settlement thereon of Indians whom it is in contemplation to remove from Kansas. The first tribe with which arrangements were consummated was the Sensznoles: Concluded Narch 21, 1866; ratification advised July 19, 1866; proclaimed August 16, 1866. By this treaty renewed pledges of peace and friendship are made, and a complete amnesty for all offences arisiiig from the |