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Show XLYIII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. its maintenance, or provision should be made to give the In dians and in severalty with permaneut title, inalieuable for a term of years. NISSION INDIANS IN CALIPOBNIA. The corldition of these Indians as regards their lauds still remains in an un~atisfactoryc ondition. Suits in ejectment have been brought by owners of private grants against Indians who have been in occupation and possession for many years, even for generations. Attorueys were employed to defend these suits, but payment of expenses incurred by them having been refused by the Trea8ur.v Department, they have virtually abandoned the cases. I hope hereafter to be able to intrust the interests of the Mission Indians to parties who will use more care for their welfare. The reservations set apart for the Indians in many cases do not iu-clude their villages, and in others cover landsclaimed, in some cases no donbt justly, by settlers. Unless something is speedily clone for their relief, uothing but starvation and extermination await thesepeople, who, by the treaty with Mexico, were received on an equal footing with other citizens of that republic. The hill for their rel~efw hich was submitted to the Department Jan-uary 10,1884, and wbich passed the Senate July 3, 1884, appears to afford the most feasible and satisfactory solution of the difficulty. This hill will again be prepared and submitted to the Department for trans-mission to Congress at the coming session. I give no details as to the wrongs and sufferings of these Indians, because thex have been fully set forth in the report ou their condition made by Mrs. Helen Jackson and Mr. Abbot Einney, which was pub-lished a year ago, and also in the report of the Senate Committee on Indian affairs (Report No. 1522, Forty.eighth Congress, second session). 'I'HE KLAMATH RIVER INDIANS IN OALIFOENIA. The reswvation Iwdian8.-The errors in the public snrveys within the Elamath River Reservation not having been corrected, the work of al-lotting lands in severalty to, the Indians, as. directed in Department letter of March 26, 1883, which was suspended on account of the dis-covery of these errors, has not been resumed. No less than three bills were introduced in the last Congress to re-store the reservation to tho public domain," in each of wbich provision was made for allotting lands in severalty to the Indians (8.813 and H. R. 112 and 7505). Neither of said bills was enacted, for the reason, it is presumed, that they were not reached in the regular course of business before adjournment. It is my intention to ask St an early day for legislation suitable to the wants of these Indians. They do not need all the lands at present reserved for their use, but they should be permanently settled, either individually or in small communities, and |