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Show be diflirult, un<lp rii:111* impos*il~lm~ ,i ut l~cet l m nan, ro plant; but the 1'Sr:dllidh~)~11t ',I' a11 ir.d!!%lniol OILYO\ 118 ~ U I I I I P F ~ ~wUitLh ~il u ia:enc,v-f.tr~~~io r ITR supp(1~1r r~ultlt ctt<i to gni~lulllyi mprove the gonllo,%r portion of 1110t r i k nu8i would in rime ha of gr,..,t I-, -~ -" ~ , i , . * -. . Retnrning from my viait to Tierra, Amarilla, in Jnly laat, I met, by appaint~neut nt Al,iquin, a large deputation, re resentinghbout four hundred Jicarills. Apaches, who have lived near that plaoe for a. &ng time, and who asked to be permitted to remain there. As no complaints or objections were made by the citizrnq allof whomapoke in praiae of these Iudiaus, I gave them permission to rema*, and haveplaced t.hem under the charge of the agent at Ticrrs. Amarilla. ClMMARON AGENCY. This has been disoontinued as a. regnlar agency nince the resignation and departnre of the late agent in May last, and cunseqoently the Indians hnva heso discotitented and at times unruly. Duriuglastwinter authority was grantad. at my request, to re-move the Muaohe Utes to the Ute Agonoyat Tierra Amarilla, and the Jicmilla Apaches to he Msscalero Apaohe agency at Fort Stanton. Upon representations made to me, It believed the removal oould be accomplished in time, and mde the request in view uf t,he facts that the majority of the citizens of Cinlntsron, aod especially the "Eogliliah Company," whoownecl the land, earnestly desired to be rid of the Indiaus, whose pr~6- ence wm and is a. constant somrce of trouble, and a cause for a general fkeling uf insc-ourity among the people of that neigl~borhood. I am now convinced thet Cirnmaron is not a anitsble plaoe for these Ind'inns', aud thet they are surrounded by influsuers that render their proper control almost an impossibility. They are becoming very over-bearing, an11 insist that the " Maxwell graut" belongs to them, and the Munohe Utes refuse to leave it, although it has been sold to the English Company referred to and is b'eing rapidly diapoved of toaotunl settlere. I have tried several exparimenta to aooomplish the removal, hut as yet without sue-cess. According to the report of Agent Curtis, of the' Mescalero Apache agency, the Jioarilla Apaohes have agreed to go to Fort Stanton@pon thsir return from s 1,ntfaio-hunt, and I am confident that both bands can be mooed peaceably. Iantloth torasort to forcible measures till all other means have failed. Thia ohmgo will plsce these two bands under the charge of agents, who can control a~~dowrefortheir\r.ilnta. Ti~abancl of Muache Utes is one of the seven iuclx~dediu the Ute treaty of 1868,and t h e i ~ol airn to their proportion of the funds and annuities provided under thet treaty is prsssutrd ni th that af the Capote and Weminn~heU tes of the Tierra Amnrille agency. The Indinus st Cirnrneron have become 80 unnllv of late, in oonsaquenca of tho abseoco of any one with authority to look to their iiterests, that I have plaoed Mr. R. H. Longwilltemporsril~in charge, for the purpost, of fesding and otherwise caringfor them tillthey can he moved. PUEBLO AGENCY. Since my last annual report but little of apecia1 interest has ooaurred among these Indiana. The illegal trading with the Comanche Iudiaus, of Texas, that has been oar-r i d on by the young lusn of several of the Pueblo villages, is virtually stopped, and I do not believe there will be any further trouble on that account. The question of citizenship, I re ret to say, has not yet been satisfaotorily settled, and every year renders it more digcolt to solve. The courts of thia Territ0r.v hil1.e decided upon severd occasions that the Pueblo Indiana sre citizens of the Uuited States, and doring last sunlmer two Puehlo Iudians were placed on a United State. jury at Albuqoerque, in thia Territory, in aeoordance with thw- decisions, bnt it is doubtful if this aot,iou will be sostained till their status is finally and definitely fixed by t.he Supreme Court of the United States. A decision upou thin mattsr, which I t r ~ ~wsiltl be obtained during this gear, will facilitate the settlement of other questions regarding tho affsirs of these Indiaos, more or less dependent upen that of citizenship. On the 16th of September last I held aconnldl, at Sauta FB, with the governors, oap. tsins, and principal men of most of the villages, at their request, in regard to religion. It appears them was a, ge,neral feeling of ihseonrity among them on socount of allcared attempts at intorfereooe m their religious affairs, and at times there has been aer$us troubles at one of their vill&ges on account of religious differenoes. The substance of their talk was that they wanted protection in their right to choose their orpn rcligioo, which protection I guitranteod to furnish, so far as it utight bu in my power to do so, telling them the Constitution of the United States gnaranteed the right to rsll to war-ship a8 they might soloot, and that no man or set of man would he permitted to diot;lt,e or interferein their religious aff~ira. Moat of the Pueblos, who pr~fuss any religion, am Catholics, aud the Catholic Church has done an immense amonut of goad amoug them in years past, without aid or enooutagemcut from tlle Government; and when I assumed charge bf the superiutendenay trvo yoars ago I found teachers iu mast of tllo |