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Show LIV REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. over, in the hope of securing the proffered aid and assistance. It will require the greatest care to prevent impositio~i of this sort. The same difficu1t.v is experienced at othe?points along the internationalboundary. SEMINOLE INDIANS IN FLOR1,DA. The Indian appropriation act of July 4, 1884 (23 Stats., 95), con-tained an item appropriating the sum of $6,000, to enable the Seminole ~ndianisn Florida to obtain homesteads upon the public lands, and t o establish themselves thereon. Late Special Agent Beede was assigned the duty of visiting these Indians for the purpose of inducing them to take advaittage of the above provision. After much difficulty he suc. ceeded in finding a number of Indians who'were willing to take home-steads, many of them having small patches of cultivated land, which they have occupied for years, and to which they desire to obtain title. Upon investigation at the land office, however, it was found that all this land is owned, by the State of Florida, or by i~nprovement companies, to whom it has been transferred by the State. No pithlic lauds could he found upon which to locate these Indians. Further action under the act was therefore suspended. Correspondence has been had, however, with the governor of Florida, who suggests that the officers of the State, as trustees of the improve-ment fund, might dispose of certain lands to the United States, for the purposeof locatiugthese 1udians.as coutemplatedby Congress. Special report will be made upon this subject. CEOCTAW ORPEAT3 LAXD8. The sixth clause df the ninetoenth article of the Choctaw treaty of September 27, 1830 (7 Stats., p. 337), provides as follows : Likewise childnm of the Chocthw Ration maidlug in the nation, who have neither father nor mother, a list of vhich, with aatisfsot,ory proof of parentage and orphan-age, being filed with agent in aix mouths, to be forvarded to ths War Depwtment, shall he entitled to a quarter-seotion of laad, to be looated under the direction of the President; and with his consent the same may be sold, and the prooeeds applied to some benefioiai purpose for the benefit of said orphans. Suoh a list was submitted to the Departraent by United States Indian Agent W. Ward on the 17th of December, 1831, consisting of 134 or-phan children, viz, 48 in Ne-tuc-che-pee's district, 36 in Leflore's dis trick, and 50 iu Mish-a-la-tub-bee's district, together with the names of their parents so far ss the same could be ascertained. The lands (134 tracts, containing 21,412.39 acres) were selected by special agents, aud were approved by the President January 25, April 18, and November 28, 1837, and were located in Mississippi, as follows :- 42 tracts (Nos. 1 to 40, inclusive,l33, and 134), in Lowndes County ; 9 tracts (Nos. 41 to 44, inclusive, and 128 to 130, inclusive), in Holmes County; 14 tracts (Nos. 46 to 88, inclusive) in Ualhoun County ; 66 tracts (Nos. 59 to 124, |