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Show 12 REPORT OF THE COM>fISSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 1 111 my judgment, the best n~etl~oactl' mretit~pt he necessities of these 1utli;111w~i ll Or to secure to then1 b j with~lr;l~rfarlo m R; I ~Ca ll the pnblic I Iallds ~1 1 0 1w1 lli(tl1 tlcry are 1101vliviu~U. lldbrdire~liol~li;s)n r 1110 Office, I the agent has employed a surreyor t o indicate such bout~dariesa s will 1 enable the President to issue an Executive order making the proper withdrawal. This course, howeyer, will provide for but very few of the 1 Indiaun. from the fact that nearlv all of the arable lands i n that sefition , of the kuntry have been sough< for and are covered by Mexican land. I grants or entries in the United States Land Ofice. For the remainder. 1 ft will be necesvary to purchase senall tracts of land at different pointd upou which the Iuclians may looate permanent homes, and where the1 will be in the vicu~ity of the planters and raneh.men, who will give them profita\)le e~nploymunt as laborers. Fur the purchase of these tracts and of the i t~~~~rovementswmhaiey hb e found withiu other tracts desirable for small reservation#, an appropriatiou of not less than $150,000 will be required, and I rcspeetfully suggest that the attention of Congress be again called to the importance of this subject. INDIAN O A P T I ~ ~ S . I Cougress at its last session appropriated funds for au experiment of ! enforced civilization among the crautives of the Kiowa. Comanche, and I Chejeune tribes of the Inilian Teiritor1. I t was pro'poved to move a large number of these hostiles-from three to four thousaud-away from their present surroundings, and from the buffalo rltrlge aud easy oppor-t u u ~ t yfo r raiding in Texas, to a portion of the Indian Territory where they conld be disarmed, dismonnted, and prevented from returning t@ their old haunts, and cotupelled to undertake day-labor in return fur the food and elothine iuruished them bv the Go\-eroment. 111 pursllamce uT thys plan, a tract of country cont a i t~i~4~0,g00 0 :lcres mas ~ ~ r o c u rfrio~ml the Q~lalvnwa,w ho base a ntarr\.atin~rl ying in the nort6east corner of the 1ndianTerritorg. Such prepamtiou as the season allowed bas bee11 made for the reeeptior~ of these captive hos-tiles, in the breaking of grouud and erection of buildings; but owing to. ol>jeetiousraisetl by military officers, the execution of the plan is still in abeyance, and the Indiaus, with the exception of sevent.y, are at their former agencies. These sereulg were selected by the military officers, as riugleaders in marauding and guilty of other enormities, for puuish-ment, aud were takeu by the War Departmeut to Rort Marion, OII the. coast of Florida, where they are still brld as prisoners. The effect of this treatmeot is most happy upon others of the tribe. It is the first wholesome lesson whioh these Indiaus have ever had in a settled pur-pose of the Governtueut to compel them to cease from mnrder and ma-rauding. I deem the delay in the proposed experiment of eutbreing civil. izatiou bv removine a ort ti on of these Iudiaus toQnavitw reservation as. uutortu~kte; an11 i t tvill still bu ulore o u f ~ ~ r t t ~ ~ ~ xtiutiei1~1yl 'bieid ecitled to uban~lotrt lre pluu, and thus aurrelrdt~r I l l i s I ~ O J Lth vornl~leo pporlu. nitx ol 'e~~mur l l i1t~11zd i;lnal ~ithurtow ild ilu~lid le. ; I I I I ~o ffell iusulvut it1 th&r demaids fo; rations, to come to daily toil or suffer hunger. TEE INDIAN TERRITORY. 30 marlied change has appeared in the condition of the five civilized tribes in the Indian Territorv. Thav nu~nber5 5.000, aud o c e u ~ va e omt v eo~~tuittil(li2g,O dU squire tnilu~:ur more t h a~i o nsrq llare miie" to B j~erson. No atntiat~calr eports havit~gb een recci\.ed eoncerni~~thge n$. |