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Show 10 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. "Okla7,oma." Provision is made for a secretary of the council, and for pay of members, and for a marshal of the Territory; and a clause is added looking to the establishment of an upper house, to consist of one member for each tribe. The educational funds of the Indians under former treaties are to remain in- \ . ~ ~ t eadn.d paymcnt.3 aoder futntw tn:slit.j to t ~ ere ucwed. Provision is made f:ar P I I ~ V P ~R~ II IIJ~~ l lot~itc11g19 r ~ s ~ . r ~ , ~ twihoenn ?d rairrd, and f l ~ rth e return to the lndinu roont~~oyf eeatfcred membcrs of the 1ri0en. Lil~~id~ 81.1 ~ I I ) . I ~fIu r county buildings &d for religious and erluoational pnrposes. 1ndi&s from Kansas are to be received with equal privileges with the people of the two tribes, though not to participate in annuities, and land for their use is to be paid for at $1 per acre. Members of these tribes are to be received as com-petent witnesses in United States courts. Criminals taking refuge in their country are to be returned upon requisition. Post offices are to be established in the country. A cornmiasion is to ascertain and report the losses by lnyal Indians by being driven from the country, and another the losses alleged to have occurred to certain traders, the amounts to be paid from the tribal funds held hy the government The next treaty in this series was made with the Creeka: Oouclncled June 14, 1866; ratification advised, with amendme~lt, July 19; amendmer~t accepted July 23, and proclaimed August 11, 1866. This treaty re-establishes peace and friendship, declares amnesty for past offences, and establishes the freedmen in full equality of rights and privileges, as well as a share in the national soil and funls. The adjustment of this question occupied a long time. But one delegation from the Creeks appeared here at first, and with them a treaty was made which recognized the rights of the fieedmen to full equality; but, at about the time this treaty was made, other delegates came on, representing the soutliern or ,' disloyal " Creeks, who constituted about one-half of the people, and strenuously opposed the consum-mation of the treaty on account of this very pro~ision. They engaged able counsel, and, as the result of their opposition. the treaty came back from the President for revision. It appeared at one time as if all negotiations must fail, and the Commissioners, knowing the necessity of some settlement of the affairs of the people and relief for the destitute among them, were disposed to urge the nat~or~daell egates to yield the point for the present, hut they held out firmly for their freedmen, urging that when the brave old Opotl~leyoholo, re-sisting a11 the blandishments of the rebel emissaries, and of his Indian friends, stood out for the government, and led a large number of his people out of the countly, fighting as they went, abandoning their homes, they promised their slaves that if they would remain also faithful to the oveinment they shoold be free as themselvet. Under these circumstances tltefeleg~tesd ecliued to yield, but iusisted that that sacred pledge should be fulfilled, declaring that they would sooncr go home and fight and suffer again with their faithful friends than abandun the point. They were successful at last, and the treaty guaran-tees to tlleir freedmen full equality. The Indians cede to the government, to be used for the settlement thereon of other Indians, the west half of their do-main, estimated at 3,250,560 acres of land, for which the government is to pay $975,168, in the following manner: $200,000 to enable theCreeks to reoccupy and restore their farms & improvements, to pny the damages to mission schools, and to pay the salary of the delegates to Washingtoo; $100,000 to be paid for losses of soljiers enlisted in the United States army, and to loyal refugees and freedmen; $400,000 to be paid per capita to the Creeks as it may accrue from the sale of lands; interest on the Last two soms, at five per cent., to be used for the Creeks, at the diecretion of the Secretary of the In-terior ; and the remaining sum due, or $275,000, is to he invested at five per cent., and the interest paid to the Indians annually. Thc amounts due to sol-diers and refugees are to be ascertained iulder direction of the superintendent |