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Show LII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OP IKDIAN AFFAIRS. At t.he last session of Congress bills (8.1643 and H. R:3503) to ratify the agreement of Nay 14,1880, with the Shoshone and Bannack Indians for the cession of a portion of the southern half of the Port, Hall Reser-vation, including Marsh Valley and the settlements therein, were rein-troduced. On t,he Yth March last the bill vas favorably reported fromthe House Committee on Indian Affairs (Report No. 658), but it does not appear that any further action mas taken. I t is hoped that 'ongreus will dispose of this long-pending mat,ter early in the ensuing session, a l ~ dth ereby open up some 325,000 acres of land to settlement. ALLOT3lXNTS TO NEZ PEROES IN IDAHO. The third article of the Nez Per& treaty of Joue 9, 1863 (14 Stat.., p 648), stipolates that-- The President. shall, immediately nft,er the rratification of this treat,y, cause the boundary lines to be s~irveyed pn,perly marked and entablished; sfter which, so much of the lend8 herebg reserved a map be suitable far cultivation shall be snr-veyed into lots of twentr acres each, and every xiale perso11 of the t,ribe w-ho ahall have attained the age of t\venty-one rears, or is tho head of a family, shall have the privilege of locating upon one lot as :L permanent home for such person. A portion of this reservatiou has been sarreyecl into tweuty-acre tracts, and the Indians have taken steps to establish permanent holnes on the reservation, bnt in larger tracts than the. treaty provides. The Lapwai Reservation, whose outboundaries havebeen surveled, contains 746,651 acres, upon ~rhich there is a popt~Vatioa of 1,236 persons. To limit. allotments to twenty acres, as provided in said treaty, when there iu a supembondsnee of laud for an allotment of much larger size to every Indiau residiog thereon, seems a great hardship and looks like R palpable wrong to those desiring to make a permanent home. Recom-mendation is therefore made that Congress be asked to adopt such legislation as will authorize them to take an ample quantity of land for their home and residence. MAMIES OF KANSAS. a'n act of Congress approved May 15,1882, provided for the disposal and sale of the uoallotted lauds of the Miami Indians in Kansas, in. cluding the school sections, the net proceeds of the sales of said lands to beloug to said Miami Indians, and to be disposed of as now provided by law. The fourth section provided that the act Shall not in any way affect the rights or claims of those individual Miamieq or persons of Indian blood or descent, who are named in the corrected list referred to in the Senate amendment to the fourth srticle of the treaty of June tifth, eighteen hun-dred and fifty-four, or their descendants. And that before the prooeeds which have been, or may hereafter be realized from the sale of said lmltds shall be applied for any purpose, the Secretary of the Interior shall obtain the apinlon of the Attorney-General as to what rights or interest., if any, said persons have or had in and to said lands. |
