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Show . ' ., - ' ., 24,. REPORT OF THE COMMSEIIONEB OF 'INDIAN AE'FbIBS. . ' . z ed by the Deprtment M d ~ 3h,1 887; The act of March sed in the interest of these persons, this office offering ., ; . .' ,. nq' objection to the proposed law, as the oonsent of the Indians, who - , Were deemed folly competent toact for themselves, was required before any lands aonld be sold. : . This quarry is an object of great veneration among the Yankton In-dians, who hive been accnstomed to visit it for many yea& to obtain t h e red stone from which they manufacture pipbs and other articles with much skill. They believe that the stone has great value for building can ever be induced to part with this ancient possession. ' Bitter Root Valley.-By an act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 871), the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the Indians severally in- ,, : bested, is authorized to cause to be appraised and sold in tracts not exceeding 160 acres, all the lands allotted and to certain Flat-head Indims in Bitter Root Valley, Montani, and $500 is appropriated - . for carrying the provisions of that act into effect. 24,1889, General H. B. Carrington, of Hyde Park, ' ignated by the Secretary of the Interior to perform THE INDIAN ORIlCES ACT. ~ Prior.to March 3,1885, there was no law of the United States under which an Indian committing offenses against the person or property of another Indian on an Indian reservation conld be punished; no court 'having been given jurisdiction of such cases. By the ninth section of the Indim appropriation act of that date (2% Congress made provisions for the punishment of certain -. crimes by Indians, as follows : That immediately upon md after the date of the pmsage of this act all 1ndia.m . oommitting against the person or property of another Indian or other person any of thefallowingarimes, nar6eiy, murder, manslaughter, rape, asseplt with intent to kill, awn, hnrgbq;and larceny within any Territoryof theUnitedStates, sod eithec within or without an Indian reservation, shall he subject therefor to thelaws ofsncb Territory relating to said orimes, and shall be tried therefor in the same oottds and in the 8sde manner, and shall be subject to the same penalties ea aresll other persona oharged with the commission of said orimes, reapeotively ; and the said collrts are b h y given&urisdiction in 811 sooh osses, and all 811ch Indians committing any of tbe above orimes against the parson or property of another Indian or other person within the boundaries of any State of the United States, and within the limitsof any Indian reservation, shall he subject to the same lsws, tried in the same courts and in'the same manner, and snbjeot to the same penalties as are all other persona cam- . . mitting any of the above crime8 within the exolusive jorisdiction of theunited States.' . nited States against ghg;ma and another, Indians Gal., indicted under this law for Indian within the said of the United States by e circuit judge and the . , |