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Show XX .REPORT OF TEE COMMJSSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Indians thereon, but which are as yet unoccupied. The punishment of offenders committing depredations upon such timber is also provided for by this bill. It is absolutely necessary that some stringent law should be enacted to prevent the continuallyrecurring depredations upon timber on In-dian reservations, and I earnestly recommend the early passage of the above bill. SURVEYS OF RESERVATIONS AND INDIAN LANDS. The neccssitj- for establishing the boundaries of Indian reservations, where such are contiguous to land which is being taken up by whte people for agricultural or mining purposes, is daily growing more urgent. Such boundaries ought to be surveyed and well marked oat. There remain, unsurveyed, about 6,000 miles of reservation boundaries, one-third of which probably belong to the class above mentioned. Where it has not yet been done, the arable lands of the reservations ought to be subdivided, to enable the agents to allot to individual In-dians snch quantities of land as may be directed, and bring into actual use all such lands, ere11 if they are not in the immediate neighborhood of the agencies. It is to be hoped that appropriations will be made by Congress for these necessary surveys, which are so pressingly demanded to protect the interests of both the white settlers and the Indians. INVASION OF T m INDIAN TERl&ITORT. In Febrnary last information reached this office that a large number of persons were again organizing at various places in Southern Kansas for the purpose of entering the Indian Territory, and making settlements on lands therein which had been ceded to the government for Indian purposes. To encourage this movement, the promoters of the scheme had publicly represented that the President had changed his views in regard to the status of the lands in question since the issuance of his proclamation of April 26,1879, and that in his last annual message he had admitted that said lands were public and should be settled upon, and hence that they were violating neither the President's proclamation nor any law of the United States in emigrating to and locating upoh such lands. The attention of the President having been called to the matter by this department, he issued a second proclamation, dated the 12th of Bebruary last, whioh will be found herewith on page 201. This pmo-lamation declared the representations made to be wholly without foun-dation, and to have originated only in the minds of evil-disposed per-sons, and again warned all parties who were intending or preparing to remove upon said lands, or into the Indian Territory, without permis-sion of the proper authorities, against aDy attempt to so remove and |