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Show pany, leaving an area sufficiently large to meet all the wants of the Iu-dians. This question is becoming more and more embarrassing every year, and reports of a late (late hare reached this office from tbe Indiau agent and the post commander at Fort Klamath, throngh the War Depart. ment, that unless these ditferences are satistactorlly adjusted itifficnlties of a seiious nature, if not an open outbreak, will arise between the In-dians and the whites. It is deemed highly i~nportaut that action 1)y Cougress should be taken at an early day tor the final settlement of these questions between the road company and the Iudiaux. SPECIAL 00MMISSlOMS. Pawnee lands in Nebraska. A commissiol~e, ousistiug of Lewis M. Briggs, of Atchison, Hans., Loran Clark, of Omaha, Nebr., and Albert W. Swalm, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior on the 29th of August, 1876, to appraise tbe Pawnee Indian reservatio~l in Nebraska, as proricleil by act of Congress approved April 10: 1876. .(l9 Stats., p. 28.) This commission, under instructions from this office dated Sep-tember 27, 1876,hks combleted its labors in the field and ~ubmitteda schedule of appraisement for the approval of the (lrpartu~eut,. The reservation, embracing an area of 278,837.20 acres, has been appraised at an aggregate valuation of $752,465.21; the in~provetuents thereon were a,pprai8ed a t $9,345, makiug the total valuatior~o f reservation and improvements, $761,80021. Otoe and %issouria and #ac and FOX lands in hTebraska and Kansas. Under an act of Coagreas entitled "Au act to provide for the sale of a portion of the reservation of the coufederilted Otoe ancl Missonria and the Sac and Pox of the lfisaouri tribes of I&ians in the Stdtes of Kansas and Nebmska," approve11 August 15,1S765 (19 Statt?., 11.208,) a oommission, consistiug of Wm. V. Lagourge, of Beatrice, Nel~r., H. D. Baker, or Saliua, Hans., and P. M. Barnes, of the Otoe agency, was ap: poiuted Jannary 22 and 27,1877, by the Secretary of the Interior, to a,ppraise tile Otoe and &Iissou~.iIan (lian lands; and n co~nmissiou,c on- , sisting of Barclay White, of Mount Holly, 3'. J., Tyler O. Hoyt, of Rulo, Nebr., and Willis~nA . Margrave, of Nohart, Nebr., mas appointed by the Secretary of the Interior on t,tle 17th of March, 1877, to appraise the SH(:a nd FOXIn dian lands. While the act eo~~tetuplntetdh e sale of a portion only of these rrse,rmtions, it reqnired the appn~isemenotE all tlleland. Thesecorn~uissionhs are coml~letedt heir work, a t ~ dt, he sched-ules of apbraisemeut have 11eel1a ppl.ore,l by the departmeut. Of the Otoe au(l Missouria reservatior~,1 28,330.81 acres l j i r~gin Ne-brt~ skah ave bee11 appraised a t $506,716.70, aud 34.608.26 acres ljing in Eltosax hare bee11 a.ppraised at $127,676.41, making n totnl valuation of $634.393.11 .for the whole rexervation of 162,9;19.07. acres. The act authorized the snlr of 120,000 acres itom the western side of the reserva. ti011 ; and, underdate of the29t.11 of i\ngust lwst, 94,240.89 acres in Ne-braska, a t an appraisrment of $338,357.64, a11112 5,605.28 ncrex i l ~E au-sat?, at a n appraisrment of $88,733.688, making 119,846.17, acres, at a total valuatiou of $427,091,322, have been designated as the land to be sold. Of the Sac and Fox of the Missouri In~littnl ands, 9,548:+4 acres lying |