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Show REPORT OF THE OOMMIBSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRB. 65 '. commission submitted a report of their appraisemeuts of the improve-men*, with their recommendation aa to the establishment of the north-ern boundav' of the reservation (see H. &. Ex. Doe. No. 118, Forty- ' , t h i i Congress, first session), which was approved by the Department Angust 4,1874. The total value of the improvements as appraised was $32,669.78. On the 18th of Nay, 1875, an executive order was issped defining the.reservation in accordance with the act of March 3,1873,. , and the report of the commissjon. The e'ect of the actiou taken under the act of March 3,1873, was to restore some 12,000 acres of valley land to the public domain and to add some 89,000 acres of mountain land to the reservation. The com-missioners, in their ieport, est,imated the lands restored to be worth some $54,400: and suggested an amendment to the act so as to author-ize said lands to be appraised and offered for sale. A draft of a bill for this purpose wa8 submitted to the Department January 27,1874, but it did not become a law. The sum of $17,934.37 was realized from the saleof the restored lands, and the sum of $21,640 mas paid in settlement of a portion of the claims of settlers within the new reservn,tion. I u a letter dated Bebraary 27, 1875, Agent Burchard reported that news had just reached the valley that the Senate had defeated the proposed amendment to the act of 1873, whereupon the work of land-jumping," previously commenced, was intensified, it being done within the lines of the new reservation as well as within the lines establilphed by the McIntosh survey and order of 1870. , On the 17th of March, 1875, Agent Burchard was instructed to notify a11 white persons who had established themselves within the boundaries of the Bound Valley Reserve as created by the act of 1873, since the date of that act, that they must ieave the reservation within thirty days or measures would be taken by the Government for their ejection, As a result of this action, Agent Burchard took the bond of one party to remove his stock within twenty-four hours, and to comply with the rules and regnlations of the reservation. He also notified several other persons that they must leave the reservation. In a report dated April 30,1875, Inspector Vandever referred to the reservation as follows : These clsimanta ocoupy and elaim nearly all the lend and pasture outside of the reservation fences to the exclusion of the Indians, and reservation cattle are allowed iittle or no partidpation in the rtmge. Not one of these olaimants hut who located on the land $0 aocupies with the full knowledge that he was within the reservation honndsries. * * This sot (1873) wea passed at the eolioitstion of and in the interest of the settlers, 'Bv executive order of Jnl-v 26..187 6.. the 640 wren embraced in the militerv reser-sation known as Camp \VrigLt war reserved for the useandoceopation of rhe Rourtd Valle~lodisnau, ~akinrthcareao f tbereservstioo 102,118 aeree. (Thn outbouodsriae I were snrveysd in December, 1876, and Jznnarj, 1677, and the aorvey approved January 17, 1877.) 9592 IN-5 |