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Show THE COJISISSIOXEQ 01~' INDIAN AFFAXltS. has been done, and in July last, individual selee-such of the members of the band as were present at Crow Creek at that time. It is hoped that Congress will authorize the issue of pateuts for these selections, so thah these Indians may not again be tlepriverl of their homes. nonz HALL AND LEXHI RESEBVATIO;YS, IDAHO. In May last a delegation of chiefs of the Shoshone, Bannack, and Sheepeater tribe of Indians belonging to the Fort Hall and Lemhi Agencies visited Washington, and an agreement was entered into with them, whereby the chiefs and headmen representing the Indians of the Lemhi Agency agreed to surrender their rese'vatiou at Lemhi, aud to remove to and take up lands in severalty upon the Fort Ha11 Reserva-tion. By the same rtgreelneut the chiefs and headmen of the Shoshones and Bannacks of Fort Hall agreed to cede to the United States aportion of the southern half of their reservation, including Marsh Valley and the rettlelnents therein. By the terms of the agreement the United States, in eonsideratioa of 'such cession, agrees to pay to the Lemhi Indians the som of four thou-s a d dollars per annuln for twenty years, and to the Fort Hall Indiaus the sum of six thousand dollars per annum for twenty years, in addition to any sums to which said Indians are already entitled by treaty pro-visions. The United States further agrees to cause the lands of the Fort Hall Reservation to be surveyed and allotted to the said Iudians in sever-alty, in the proportions mentioned in said agreement, and to issue pateuts therefor, with restrictive clauses against alienation, &c., so soon as the necessary laws are passed by Congress. In anticipation that the agreement would he ooufinned, a bill to accept and ratify the same, and to make the necessary appropriations, was prepared ill this office and submitted to the department, and intro-duced in both houses of Congress at the last session (EL It. 6226 and S. 1759). So far as the Leu~hi Indians are concerned, that part of the agreement which relates to them becomes iuope~ativet,h e tribe having since deoliued to remove to Fort Hall. I therefore recommend that so. much of said agreemeut as relates to the Fort Hall Indians and their reservation'be acce11te:i and ratified by Congress. FORT HALL ACtENCY. During the year encooragiug progress has baeti made in the worli of civilization at this ageucy. The effort to assist these ludians was seriously embarrassed aud re-tarded by the ontbreali of a portion of the tribes in 1578, but the eril effects arising therefrom have been to a great extent overcome, and the agent reports that ~ ~ l a nofy the Indians who pwticiyaW in the ant break referred to are now among the most in~lnstriousfa rmers and lab- |