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Show Carried forward .............................................. $18,410 00 Indians at Lake Winnibigoshish and CasaLake. Annual dsm-age, vie : Hay ..................................................... $3,640 00 Loss of fish.. ............................................. 4,350 00 Lass of oranberries ....................................... 300 00 Lam of sugar.. .......................................... -100 00 8,390 00 26,800 00 p~ Making total damage8 awarded by the cornmiasion outside of resultant damages, as follows: 1ndividu.l property ...................................... 2,041 50 mib.4 property .......................................... -7,996 68 10,038 18 Total annual dmilges avardod ......................... 26,800 00 --A 36.838 18 -- The sum of $10,038.18 being available out of the appropriations already made, this Office, on the 19th oE December, 1883, in a report on the subject, recommended that an appropriation of $26,800 be made by Congress as the first installment for the annual damages for the next fiscal year, and that apnually thereafter a similar appropriation be made to carry into efect the award of the Commission. Congress did not however, at its la.st session, make the appropriations recommended. These Iutliaus have been and are nom peaceably disposed and loyal to the Government. Bishop Whipple, Mr. Blakely, Gorernor Marshall, and other prominent citieens of that locality, urge the justness of the Indian claim, and I concur with their judgment that these Indians hare a just claim upou the Gover~~mefnotr full compensation for the injury sustained by them in the construction of these dams for the improvement of the navigation of the Missisvippi River, the benefits of which inure solely t,o the United States. I cannot too strongly press the urgent neceseity for the appropriations recommended. Noone can compute the evil consequences that may arise should Congress ignore its duty to these Indians by a Cablure to make the appropriations to carry out the terms of the aforesaid award. SALE OF OMAHA LANDS IN NEBRASKA, AND ALLOTMEIiT OF LANDS IN SEVERALTY TO OMAHA INDIANS. The com~nissiona ppointed to appraise the Omaha Reservation Iands in Nebraska west of the Sioux City and Nebraska Railroad under the act of August '7, 1882 (Stat.. 22, p. 341), submitted their report aud schedule of appraisement under (late of October 11,1883. The appraise- / ment was approved by the Department November 20, 1883, and the General Land Office directed to take steps for the disposal of the lands under the law. By public hroclamation, dated March 19, 1884, the ' lands were thrown open to settlement from and after April 30, 1884, at 12 o'clock, noon. The total number of acres appraised and subject to disposal is 50,157, and the value thereof as appraised, $512,670.24. |