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Show 544 REPORT OF THE GOMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. the honorable Commissioner of Indian Maira, but, owing to the insuE-ciency of appropriation made by the Forty-first Congress, the work of carrying out article 3 of the treaty of July 3,1868, was stopped. The saw and grist mill, physician'sresidenoe, and house for accommodation of emnlovbs have been erected and nartiallv finished. The machinerv for thegAst-mill is on the ground anh shoul2 be set up and put in rnfning order. The denomination to whom this reservation has been asslgued i r nre-uar.ed~ to f urnish anv amu n t of teachers that mav be demagded ~~~~ ~~ %henever school acoomm~dationsa re furnished. The Indians evince a willingness to comulv with article 7 of the treaty, so far as their childrenuare concernea,reserving to themselves the privilege of roaming to some extent, which necessitates the estab-lishing of a boarding-school, and to which 1 beg leave to call your par-ticular attention. Owing to the destruction by grasshoppers of almost the entire crops planted on this reserve during the past season, it will be necessary for the Qovernment to furnish subsistence for all the Indians, the Bannacks excepted, that live upon t.his reservation, for the next year. It is to be regretted that such is the case, but theloss of the crop$ is one of those accidents that cannot be guarded against by any foresight. Since receiving from the Department of Indian Affairs such information as enabled me to predicate the actual status'of the finances of this reser-vation, I am not at all astonished at the action of my predecessors in giving to the Indians long permits of absence from the reservation, having been obliged to do precisely as they did, vie, push the Indians out on fishing and hunting excursions for purposes of economy. The whole number of able-bodied Shoshones, under the leadership of ,their chief, mere induced to go east, toward the Tetons, on such expedition; and while the rushing off of t,he Indians from the re8,wve is to be dep-recated, the agent, besides being liable to censure, !s forced to do so, else subsist'eoce for the winter, when most needed, w~lbl e jeopardized. It is not my province to inqmre further, but to lay the simple truth before you for further action; and having done so, I am, very respect-fully, your obedient servant, BI. P. BERRY, United States Special Indim Agent. Honorable COXMISSIONEXOF INDIA&NFA IRS Washingtola City, b. 0. No. 100. UINTAHV ALLEYA GESCY, Utalr Territory, Seplemkr 22, 1871. SIR : I n pursuance of instructions from the ~Ga r tme n td,a &d June 18,l have t,he honor to submit this my sat annual report of the affairs pertaining to this 'gency. It will hardly, I presume, be expected that I should make an accu-rate and detailed ~eporot f matters before my arrival, inasmuch as I have no data in this office or within my reach upon which to found one. I arrived in salt Lake City on the 3d day of December last, just after |