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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 25 iron and steel, and for carpentering and other purposes, $2,500. The annuities due the Mississippi bands will expire in two, four, and five years; those for the Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish bands, in two and twelve years; and those for the Red Lake and Pembina bands, in six years, with the exception of their money annuity, which is to be paid during the pleasure of the President. rnDLANA. There are now in Indiana about three luin'dred and forty-fire Miamies who did not go to Kansas when the tribe moved to that section, under the treat1 of 1840. Under the treaty of June 5,1854, theseIndiaus have an annuitr or theinterest on the sum of $221,257.86, held in trust for thcm, amounting to $11,068.89, which is paid to them ann~lallyb y a special agent of 'he Government? appointed for that purpose. They are good citizens, many being thrifty farmers, giving no trouble either to their white neighbors or to the Government. There is also a small band called the Eel River band of Miamies, residing in this State, and in Michigan. They number only nineteen, and have a permanent annuity of $500, secured to them by treaty of August 3,1795. NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA. Cherokees.-There are residing in these States probably about seven-teen hnndred Cherokees, who elected to remain, under the pro\-isions respecting Cherokees averse to removal contained in the twelfth article of the treaty with the Cllerolrees of 1835. Under the act of July 29, lS4.3, a per capita trausportation and subsistence fuud of $53.33 was created and set apart for their benefit in accordance with a census-loll made under the provisions of said act, the interest on which fiind until such time as they shall iudirid~~allrye luore to t,he Indian Cou~~tirsy the only mone1 to which those named, in said roll, who are living, or the heirs of those who have deceased are entitled. This interest is too small to be of aur benefit. and soiue actiou 8hollld be ti1kt.11 hy C O I I ~ ~ C S Sw, it11 H viev ~ t I"IR V~II:: ~ I I Ib ~~sinrss matters betweeu t11c.e In,li:lu~n11r1l~1a Go\.er~~tuaeeurtl ecl, b . ~rt~ uovil~:: i such of them west as now desire to eo. and narina those !+ha decline to 1,elnove rlw per capita fuud retcrredto: ~ h G; o ~~rntnchnats IIO Agent residing with thest. Iudinns. 111 arcor~l;~n~:e\vthitrlirr r;crtl@srl?c.z pt~vssrd desire ro be bro~lcl~unt der the imtue~li;lre< !har,oeo i the (:o\,er~~tnel~r, as its wards, ~o;gress by law approved July 37, 1S6YZ directed that the Secretary of the Interior should cause the Comtnissloner of ludian Affair.? to take the same supervisory charge of them as of other tribes of Indians; but this practio;llty an~ountsto not.hing, in the absence of means to carrJ- out the intention of the law with any beneficial result to the Indians. The condition of this people is represented to be deplorable. Before the late rebellion they were living in good circum-stances, engaged with all the success which could be expected, in farmingland iu various rninor industrial pursuits. Likea.11 otheriuhabit-ants of this section, they sneered much during the Tar, and are now from this and other causes much impoverished. FLORIDA. Sentinole8-There are x fern Semi~~olea-supposed to number about three hundred-still residing iu Floridi~b, eing those, or the descend~uts of those, who refused to acconipany the tribe when it removed to the west many year8 ago. But little is known of their condition aucl |