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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMWIONEIl OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. d The patenting of lauds inseveralty creates separate and individual inter-ssts, whioh are neaessary @ order to tewh .m Indim the hen&ts of labor WJad to induce him to follow civilized pursuits. In this connedion I desire to call attention to House bill 352,46th Congrass, 1st session, whiuh confirms certain8 entries of lands made by Chippewa Indians in Michigan, and also to House bill 356, inbodnced during the same session, amending the Be6eiency act of March 3,1875. X h i ~la tter MU extends tha li,mitation phmd upon the conveymee of lands taken by Indians under the homeste'axl law to twenty-five yews from date of patent insteadof five years. It also inclndas other limita-tions embraced in House bill 354 referred to above. Under the provis-ions of this act a large number of Indians in Oregon, Washington Ter-ritory, and other portions of the Mo~thwestw, ho are not on reservations, could be readily and axlvautageously settled. I PENAL SETTLEMENTS. In former years when Indians committed serious crirnes it was eus-tommy to inflict punishment therefor by sending them to S&nt Au$ns-tine, Fla, to be kept in close confinement at Fort Marion. They were thus deprived of their liberty until they were believed to be in a fit frame of . . mhd to be permitted to go back to their tribea, with a reasonable pms-pet of their remaining quiet in the future. Of late years the military, who have acted as cnstodiaus of these captive Indians, have objected to keeping them, on m u n t of the expense of feeding them fmm the Army approprhtion, and for the last two years it has been a dicnlt xmik to cause Indian criminals to be held in custody beyond a very brief pe-riod of time, dthongh the Army appropriation bill m&kea special pro-vision for the support of Iadian prisoners. A penal seWement for $he confioement..aad refomtion of the J I U ? ~ tarbulent and broubleaome hdiriduals among the various Indim trim is a pressing want, aud immediate action should be taken for the e&b-liehment of much a sat,tdement. For the worst class of refractory Indims, one settlement should be in Florida, which is fax enough awqyfrom Indian resexvations to make any ahtempt at escape hopeless. Another setMg-went should be established Lo the Northwesk, at some point where aoon-ddsrable quantity of arable land can be found, s~ thah I u d i s who we thus res6ricted in their W . t y may be taught to work for their s'1p~wt. It is impossible to properly govern a barbarons peopde like our ddqz Indians without being able to intlict some punishment for wrong-doing that shall be a real punishment to the offender. At the present time the militazy are called upon to suppress ins.urreceions, md to chastise, by the penalties and losses of war, those who rebel against the-govern-ment. 'Phese are temporary evils to the Indians, and unless the punish-ment inacted is miusually 8evere the lesson is swn forgotten. More. . ever, 5n sstlch cases ehastiwment often falls heavily on innooeut parties insteaxl of the guilty. If the Indizin Office had a penal settlement where |