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Show case for less than six dollars per acre. The net proceeds of the sales of these lands are to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, and are to bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to espend the interest annually accumulating thereon and all or any part of the principal fund, at such time and in such manner as he may deem expedient for the best interests of said Indians. The designation of H. C. Linn, farmer in charge of the Pottawatomie agency, and the register and receiver of the land office at Topeka, Hans., as appraisers, for the purpose of car ryi~~ogut the provisions of the act, was recomniendetl in oftice report dated Angnst 31, 1882. CREEK AND SENINOLE BOUNDARY. This subject vas f1111~c onsidered in my annual report of last year, and the action of the department and of these two nations stated. The attention of the department was again called to the subject in areport dated January 9, 1882, recommending the ratification by Congress of an agreement made February 14. 1881, by the Creek Indians, to sell to the United States a portion of their lands for the use of the Seminole Indians. Said agreement is follo\~s: Under theprosi~;ona of the act of March 3, 1873 (17 Stat., p. @26), the Secretary of the Interior n.as authorized to negotia~ew ith the Creek Indiana "for the relinquish-ment to the United States of such portions of their eonntry es may have ,been set apart in accordance with treaty ~tipulatiousfo r the use of the Seminoles and the Sscs. and Foxes of *he Misvisaippi tribes of Indians respectively found to be east of the line separating the Creek ceded lsndti from the Creek Reservation, and also to negotiate. and arrange with said tribes fox a final and permanent adjnstment of their reserve tions." So much of said act as relates to the Sacs and Foxes has been carried into effect by their removal to their proper location on lands west of the said "dividing line.'" The Seminolea, however, :&res till aoct~pyingt he lands belonging to the Creeks, for which oocnpancy the Creeks have as yet receiver1 no compensation,from the fact that no agreement could be axrived at between them and the United States eu to the price per acre to be paid to the said Creeks by the United States for said lands. The nnderuigned, members of the Creek <lelegation resident in Washington, duly authorirecl to act in the premises, both by appointment for general purposes under the eertifieste of the governor mldar the national seal, and a180 by special action of the national counoil in this instance, copies of which general and special aut,harity are hereto attached, do promise and agree for themselves md for their nation that they will sell, cede, and diapose of the lands now occupied by the Seminoles belonging t& the Croak Nation to the U~ritedS tates for the sum of one hundred m d seventy-five thousand dollars. And the actin Creek delsgi~tion< loh ereby agree, for and on behalf of esid nation, that they will cede to the United States, and do hereby cede, s strip of land in the. Indian Territory, nov occupied by the Seminole Nation of Inrlisns, lying east of the said line dividing the Creek lands from the lands oeded .to the United States in the. treaty of June 14, 1W6; bounded on the north by the North Fork of the Canadian, River; on thesonth by the Cmsdian River; on the west by the dividing-line be-tseen rhe Creek Reserration and the lands oeded under treaty of 1866 above noted;., and on the east by a line running north aud south between the rivers named, so far |