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Show I REPORT OF 1HE COJIhlISSJOSIX OF IhUIAX -4FFAIRB. XLlX their present reservation be retained as a permanent reservation for those who do not desire to take homesteatls. The half-breeds and any full-bloods who may have settled upon and improved individual tracts are protected by the instructions of the Department to the General L a ~ d Office before mentiorred. and at the proper time will be assisted in securing permanent title to their lantls. NOnTlfEPvN CHEYENNES AND ARAPAIIOIIS. In aeeordaace with the a11prol)riation of five thonsa~rcl dollars which was made by the last Co~rgresst o be "eupel~tledi n removing the North-ern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians now in the Indian Territory to s more favorable location," on lhe 19th of J u l l~as t Agent John D. aJiles, of the Cheyenne and Arapnho Agency transferred, with subsistence for sixty dags, to Lient.. 0. J. stevens, Ninth Unitetl States Cavalry, 391 Cheyennes an11 14 Arapahoes to be remored to tlre Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota.. Of the 408 thns tl.ansfurrec1, it appears that about 60 of them hare since reti~rnecl to tho Cheyenne ant1 Arapaho Agency and have decided to ren~trinth ere. FORT ITALL REBEEVE, IDAITO. At the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, bills (S. 1643 and H. R. 3603) to ratify the agreement of May 14, ISSO, wit11 the Shoshone and Bannack Indians for the cession of a portion of the southern half of the Port Hall Reservation, including Marsh Valley and the settle-ments therein, were reintroduced. The House bill was favorably re-ported in committee at the same session (H. R. Report No. 058), bnt no further action was taken. I t is the intention of this o@ce to again sub-mit e bill to ratify the agreement, for transmission to Congress in the hope that the matter may be disposed of at the ensuing sessiorr. CREEK DIFFICULTIES. On the 2d of Augnht last Clinton B. Fisk a i ~ dE . Whittlesey, presi-dent and secretary, respectively, of the Boa,rd of Indian Commission-ers, Senator Coke, of Texas, Hon. D. 0. EIaskell and Hou. John Martin, of Kansas, and Hon. George X. Davis, of Illinois, were requested tc* serve as a Commission to visit the Indian Territory for the purpose of investigating, and, if possible, of harmonizing the difficulties existing in the Creek Nation. On account of l~revious engagements rrone of these gentlemen, except Commissioners Fisk itrid Whittlesey, could find it colrvenient to aerve. These two gentlemen met in the office of United States Indian Agent,. John Q. Tufts, in Muscogee, August 0 last, and proceeded with the investigation. The chief of the Creek Government, Samnel Checote, was invited to appear before the Commissioners, with such of his asso-ciates in the Government and other leading men as he might select. 6510 m~-rn |