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Show 1 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. XIX and directed this Office to take the necessary steps to carry the same into effect. Owing, however, to a dispute whiuh has arisen as to the western boundary line of the reservation, and which is now being in-vestigated by the General La.nd Office, I have thought it advisable to 1 defer further action in the matter until the lines are properly acljnsted. I Platliead Resewe in Jlontana--Northern Pacific Railroad.-In my last annual report I referred to an agreement which had been then lately entered into between Assistant Attorney-General McCammon, repre- I nenting the United States, and the confederated tribes of Flathead, Kootenay, and Upper Peud cl'oreilles Indians occupying t.he Jocko or Flathead Beservation iu Montana, for the extinguishment oftheir title to lands of the reservation reqnired fur the purposes of tire Northern Pacific Railroad, in accordal~cew ith the provisions of sectio112 of tho act of Con-gress approved July 2, l8GS (13 Stat., 365). This agreement is dated September 2,1852, and provicles for the surrender ant1 rclinqi~ishment by the said confederated tribes to the United States of all their right, title, and interest, onder treaty of July 16,1855, in and to a strip of land 200 feet wide, extending east and west through the re&ervation, and containing 1,300 acres, as a right of wa.y and road-be11f or t,l~Ne orthern Pacific Railroad. Also in and to certaiu plots of laud ad,jacent ta said right of may, and aggregatirig 130 acres, for depot purposes, &c. In consideration of stloh cession, the Uuiteci Stat(% agrees to pay to the said confederated tribes the sum of $LG,000 (being at the rate of $11.18 per acre), to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the said confederated tribes upon ratification of said , agreement by Congress, and necessary appropriations therefor, said Rum ' to be expended for the'benefit of the Indians in such manner as the Sec- 1 retary of the Interior may direct,. The United States further agrees upon like ratification and appropriation to pay to tho individual Iodians, members of said coufederated tribes, nfhose names a,ppea.r on the I schecl~olem arked K, annexed to said agreement, the several sums set opposite their respective names, amounting in the aggregate to $7,025, as fkll compensat,ion for dalnages to improvements or fenced or culti-vated fields mhich they may so st ah^, by reason of the surrender and relinquishment of said lands or any part thereof, such co~nper~satiotou be expended for the benefit of such individual Indians or pair1 to them in cash, in the proportion to which the>- may severally be entitled, ap-pearing by said schednle, as the Secretar~of the Interior may direct. It is further stipulated in said agreemeut that all provisions of exi~ting trwaties with said confeder>~.tetrdi bes, not aflected thereby, shall remain in full force and effect, and tkst said agreement shall be subject to ratification by Congress. Ou t,he 13th Janii;lry last. I had the honor to recommend to the De- ~)nrtmontth at said agreement with acco'mpanping maps and schedule be approved, and to submit for transmission to Congress the draught of a bill to accept and ratify the same. Section 3 of the bill as pre- |