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Show -26 REPORT ON INDIAN AFPAIRS. time since the separation their share of the tribal funds. Tbey have purchssed 80 acres of timber land, and purpose to buy 100 additional acres adjoining, to cultivate. Believina it best that thev should remove. the denartment directed in November of last that the spec&l agency be closed, and ;he Indiansinformed they would be paid their portion of the annuities of the tribe upon their returnine and remaining'upon the-reservation of the tribes in Kansaa. Congress, how-ever, in Narch following, directed that they should receive their annuities in Iowa, so long as they remained peaceable, and were permitted to reaide there by the government of that State. So far they have given hut little or no trouble to the whites ; have no school, and do not want any. INDIANS NOT RMBRACED WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF AN AGENCY. The Cherokees in North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, are estimated to number from 1,500 to 2,000, and are those who, under the treaty of 1835, elected to remain and not remove with the great body of the tribe to the country set apart for it west of Arkansas. Efforts were frequently made to induce them to join their brethren west, but without avail. Since the close of the late War, which caused great suffering among them, a general desire seems to have been manifested to emigrate to the Cherokee nation west, in hope of improving their condition. A party of about 75 are reported as having arrived in that country during the past summer, and others a~ixiousto go have made application to the department for means to defray their expenses. Notliing could be done for them, however, there being no funds applicable to that object. By the 3d section of the act of March 3, 1855, (Statutes at Large, vol. 10, p. 700,) the sum of' $42,290 69 was appropriated for payment to certain of these Indians for expenses of removal and subsistence, but only on condition that the Secret,arv of the Interior should be first satisfied that North Carolina, by appro-priare leiiilative :tctiotl, eonrt!~~trrdo tlleir r r~n~iniupger mnne~ltly11 ) hit Si.*tc, anything ill t l~eC hrtoket treaty of 1335 to the conrrary norwitl~n~anlling.'I 'l~at m&ey was never paid, there not having been furnished proper evidence that the State of Kortb Carolina had legislated upon the point required, and in June, 1862, the said amount was carried to the surplus fund. I suggest that Congress take such action in the matter as may be proper. Seminoles.--A few of these Indians, not perhaps more than two or three hun-dred, yet remain in Florida. Tbey have no land which they can claim as their own, nor benefits of any treaty stipulations to rtceive. The settlers complain of their depredations, and it is feared, if the evil is not in some way removed, serious difficulties may arise. I suggest that it would he well to send a special agent to Florida for the purpose of ascertaining the facts in regard to these Indians, their number end condition, and to report if it be practicable to remove them west; and if it he not, whether some measures cannot he.adopted to keep them away from the settlement^, and to provide means to enable them to make a comfortable living. For the object stated I recommend an appropriation by Congress. .From the foregoing remarks in regard to the affairs of the various superinten-dencies and agencies, and from the accompanying documents to this report, it will he seen that the Indian tribes eenerallv have made some advancement in the arra of civilized life, in moral auii intell&rnal culture. hut lint to rbat degree which ought to hlve hrnn renlizrd in view of tile meand ar~dl a l ~ o rex~l lauared h~ their behalt: It would seem thitt nfrer the l a p s r ~mf any vears,durinn \vhirl~ it has been periodically announced that manj of the &i\jes were gridually improving in civilization, there should have been by this time manifestly such a decided and thorough change of their estate as scarcely to Leave a trace of barbarism in the land. But this is not the fact; we find that still a large |