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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XLV or UekotaIndiana of Minnesota,s~bseqnentto June first, eighteen hundred sndsixty-one, and prior to the outbreak and Inassacre by said Indian~inA ogoat, aigbtreu hun-dred and sixty-two, and far which damage8 were not awerdea by the eonlrniasionen, appoiotetl uuder the sot entitled "An aot for the relief ~f persons for damages aus-trsined by reason of depretlations and iujnries by certain ban68 of Sioax Indians," approved February sixteenth, eighteen handrad and sixty-three. A commission, composed of Mr. E. M. Watson, assist,ant attorney of the Department of Justice, and Mr. O. F. Larrabee, of this Bureau, was sentwest during the summer to investigate and report upon the'sev-era1 claims presented thereunder. %heir report, which was submitted upder date of September 3 last, was transmitted to the Department September 14followi.nng. The aggregate amount of the claims presented was $143,095.67; the amount ascertained to be due by the comniission was $42,175.08. SAN CARLOS APAOHES. In view of the difflcolties encountered in making satisfactory dispo-sition of the Chiricahua apache India118 captured by General Orook in the spring of 1883, the then Secretary of War and Secretary of the Interior entered into an agreement, uuder date of July '7,1883, whereby the War Department was intrusted with the entire police control of all the Indians on the Sau Carlos Reservation. It was also agreed that the United States Indian agent for these Indians should continue in the discharge of the ordinary duties of agent, except such as related to keep-ing the peace, administering justice, and pnoishiug refractory Indians. I t was also agreed that the recentlyoaptured Apaches, and all such is might hereafter be captured or surrendered, should he kept under the control of the War Department at such points (except at the agency) on the Sau Carlos Reservation as might be determined by the War Depart-' ment, and thatthey should be fed and cared for by said Department. . ' The Indian agent has in no manner by authority of this office inter-fered with the management of the Chiricahnas since their surrender to General Crook in 1883, and since that time they have been under the immediate and exclusive management of the military. On the 17th of last May a portion of the Chiricahuas, numbering 42 men and 92 women and children, succeeded in escaping from military control, while the re-maining portion staid peaceably at Oamp Apache. Of those who escaped 8 men were killed by Apache ocouts and 31 women and children were captired and are now held under military surveillauce at Fort Bowie. The others have been roaming through the'country committing milrders and depredations and pillaging upon and terrorizing not only citizens but also other Indians. In view of the outbreak in May, and as a precautionary meahre against any collusion or combination that might be made between those off and those remaining on the reservation, as well i s to assure peace and quiet to citizens, it has been deemed advisable to place all the Apaches tem-porarily under t:he charge of the War Department, that Department to |