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Show BEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF IXDIAN AFFAIRS. LI utive order setting aside the country within the boundaries named in General Orders No. 10 as a reservation for the Hualapais Indians, with the recommendation that the same be laid before the Preside~~fot.r his approval. Should this order receive the approval of the President, the reservation, which has heretofore been under the control of the mil-itar,? authorities, will be subject to the jurisdiction of this department, and with the India116 thereon should be assigned to the care of the agent a t the nearest existing agency. Proper appropriatio~~shso uld be made by Congress for the care and support of these Indians. UTES. The Ute Commission, appointed under authority .of the Ute agrec-ment act, approved June 15, 1880, to carry ont certain provisions of said act, though somewhat changed in personnel, is still in existence, the important work required of it not having been completed. The commissioners are now in the field attending to divers duties. The snrveys for the Uuoompaligre and White Ever Utes, necessary to the allotment of lands in sereralty, as provided in the agreement, are being executed under direction of the General Land Office. The surreys for the Sonthern Utes have been made in the field and returned to the General Land Ofice in part.. By act of congress approved July 28,1882, all that portion of the Ute Reservation in Colorado lately occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River Utes is declared to be public land of t'he United States, and subject to disposal in accordance with the provisiol~sa nd under the restrictions and limitations of section 3 of the Ute agreement act, with certain exceptions in respect of prior lawful entries, settlements, and locations made upon the "ten-mile strip" on the eastern border thereof. OOMMISSION TO SIOUX OF DAKOTA. A commission composed of Messrs. Newton Edmlmds, Peter C. Shan-non, and James H. Teller vas recently appointed, under authority oontainedin the act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the government, approved Angnst 7, 1882, to negotiate with the Sioux Indians for such modification of existing treat,ies and agreements with said Indians an may be deemed desirable by the Indians and the Secretary of the Interior. Under date September 16 (ultimo) specific, instructions were issoed by this bureau for the guidance of the commissioners in the delicate and responsible duties with which they are intrusted. They are now in the field, diligently eugaged in the work .assigned them. The main purpose is to ascertain whet.her the Iildians a,re willing to cede to the United States any portion of their reservation in Dakota, and, if so, what portion and upon what terms. |
