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Show I.TllI REPORT OF THE COMMISSIOXER OF IKDIAN AFFAIRS. The amount on the books of this office to the credit of tho Iudians has bee11 increased since the date of the above (December 11,1882) to a little over $30,000. This amount will be enlarged as the sale of lands con-tinues, but for the reasons stated in my report of last Fear, where the subject is more fully discnssed, none of the indebtedness represented hy these scrip certificates can be paid until authority of Ooi~gressis had therefor. I trust this will not be 11.elayed bejot~dt he next 8essiuu. BOIS FORTE BAND OF CHIPPEWAS IN XINNESOTA. By the treaty concluded April 7, 1866, with the Bois Forte band of Chippewa Indians (14 Stat., 768), two rzservdtioi~s mere to he set apart for the perpetual use a.nd occupancy of said Indinns, one of not less than 100,000 a,cres, which should include Netor Lake, and the other a tow11- ship on Grand Fork River, at the pouth of Deer Creek, both in North-ern Minnesota. The larger reservation was selected, and the outbound-aries thereof marked, in the fall of the gear in which t,he treaty mas made (lt66), but on account of the extreme serrrit,y of the weather the expedition sent out for the purpose of making the selections was unable to reach the Grand Pork, and turned back without having selected the smaller reservation. No further attempt appears to have been made to select the reservation at the mouth of Deer Creek, owing, no doubt, to the fact that there were no white settlements in that vicinity, and the Indians were in undisturbed possession. Latterlx, however, the country there has been filling up with settlers, and for the better protection of the Indians, and at their earnest soli(:itatioo, it was thought best to declare the reserrat,ion at the mouth of Deer Creek, which was done by Executive order dated June 30,18E3, by which order township 6% north, range 25 west, of the fourth principal meridian, has heen set apart for the perpetual nse and occnpancy of said Indians. RESERVOIES AT THX HEADWATEILS OF THE XISSISSIPPI. By the iirer and harbor acts of Jnne 14, 1880, a,nd TjTarch 3,1881, authority was given the Secretary of War to erect dams and construct reservoirs at the headwaters of the 1\1ississippi Ri\-er, and in the execu-tion of this anthority some of the lands belonging to the Pillager and Mississippi Chippewas, in Dlinnesota, were required for the resenTolra a t Winuebigoshish and Leech lake. Prorisior~v a s made in said acts fur the yd.yment, to friendly Indians, for all injuries incurred in the con~tructiouo f reservoirs and damages to private property, and a Com-mission, coilsisting of Messrs. A. Barnard, of Minneapolis, Thomas Simpson, of Winona, and Louis MorclI, of this office, mas appointed aud instrncted, August 20,1881, to ascertain and determine the injuries sustained and value the damages payable to said Indians by reason of the construction of said dams and reservoirs. This Commission snb-mitted a. report, tssessing the danlages arising f:,om the constr~iet~ion |