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Show - REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 31 .of rent, costs, and fees were incurred by said emp1oyP.s in their defense at the trial of these cases, amounting to $625.75; This expense neces. sarily incurred, owing to the remote distance of the proper United States district attorney from the agency, as well as d~fficultoyf communicatiou r with him or the Department, and the exigencies of the case, which have been promptly and fully reported to this Office. From these facts and the circumstances of the partie8 who were mulcted with the costs, and iu view of the fact that by this course they wereenabled to hold the agency buildiugs, and thereby &ve,rt their destruction by the Indians, Congress 8hould be urged to appropriate the necessary amount to fi11l~'re-imburse the parties nauled. Red Clifl. By the sixth sectiou of the seco~tda rticle of the treaty of La Pointe . made September 30,1854, four sections of land, known as the Red Cliff Indian reservation,.mere set apart for the use of a certain La Pointe band of Chippewa Indians, of which Buffalo was chief. The fourth article of the said treaty authorizes the allotment of lauds and the issue of patents therefor. This reservation was enlarged in 1856, by the order of the President', by the addition of nearly eighteen secbons oE land. Legislation by Uongress is now asked authorizing the allotment of the land emhr;r;toed withiu the extension ntade by the President aud the isst16 of patents therefor upou the terms named iu the trelttp aforesaid. JTisseton and lVa71peton Siouz. Tbe fifth article of the treaty concluded with the Sissetonand Wahpe. to11 baudsof Sioux Inclians February 19,1867, provides: " * * * Bvery person to whom lands may be allotted under the provisions of this article, who shall occupy and cultivate a portion thereof for five consecutive years, shall thereafter be entitled to receive il patent for the same so soon as he sliall have fifty acres of said tract fenced, plowed, and in crop. * * " " (Vol. 15, p. 506.) Recommendation is made that legislation be adopted by Congress at its next session authorizing the issueof a patent to each allottee, when said allottee shall have lecentyLfiveacres of said (his or her) tract fenced, .. plowed, and in crop, instead of fifty acres, as required by the treaty. Ottawa land. 'Upon the establisliment of the boundary-line between the Peoria and Ottawa Indian reservations in Indian Territory, determined by the re-cent survey, a strip of country, co~~taiuin2g30 acres of land, which had formerly been used and held by the Peorias as a part of their reserva-tion, lies now within the limits of the Ottawa reservatiou. At thesug-gestion of the Ottawa Indians, this tract of land was purchased and paid'for by the Peorias, end it is now recommended tbat the legislation necessary to perfect the purchase of said laud be had by Congress at its next session. Pyras~tid Lake resereafion. Ily an order of the President, dated March 23,1874, a certain tract of country therein desoribed, in the State of Nevada, which had been held . and used ibr a number of years for Indian purposes, was set apart for the permanent use and occupancy of the Pah-Ute Indians, and known as the "Pyramid Lake Indian reservation." A portion of this reserva- |