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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. LXTI mnch of the reservation as will be necessary to supply agricnltnral lands for said allotments, together with the timber and pasture land, as provided, and the 640-acre tract required for school purposes. It the selection be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the tract ie thereafter to coustitnte the reservatior~o f said Indians. There are various other provisions rcapectiugthe allotments,butit is my purpose to cite only the more important features of the act. It is provided in section 2 that the residue of said reservation lands, not in-cluded in the new reservation lines, shall be surveyed, appraised, classi-fied into timbered and untimbcred lands, and sold at public sale through ' the proper land office to the highest bidder for cash,nopurchaser being allowed to purchase N O R than 160 acres of nntimbered and 40 acres of timbered laud. In section 3 provision is made for the disposition of the proceeds of the sale of said lands, as follows: Thcfnnds, after paying the expenses of the sn~?-e.y,a ppraisement, and sale, &c., are to be placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Indians, anddraw such rate of interest as is now or may be hereafter provided by law. Twenty per ocntnm of the principal of said funds may be used, under the direction of the President, in assisting tho Indians in establishing themselves upon their individual allotments, and $20,000 of the residue thereof is to be devoted to the establishment and support of an industrial farm and school for the education of the Iudian children in the artsand methods of ci~ilizedli fe. Section 5 of the act provides as follows: That before this not shall be executed in any part, the oanaeot of said Iudiansshall be obtained to tLe disposition of their lands as provided herein, which ounsont shall be axpreseed in writing, and signed by a. majorityof the male adults upon said reser-vation, and by s, majority of their ohiefa in oounoil easembled for thst pnrpose, sod shall be filed with t,be Secretary of the Interior. Shortly after the publication of the act, steps were taken by this office to obtain the consent of the Indians, as therein required. Under date of March 31, 1885, Special Agent Charles H. Dickson was in-structed to proceed to the reservatiou and la,y the subject before them. A council was held on the 6th of May following, at which the principal chiefs and headmen of the confederate tribes were present. The pro. visions of, the act were thoroughly explained, and opportunity was given them to discuss the matter among themselves. They would not positively refuse their conse.nt, bat much opposition was manifested, and not oQe declared in favor of the act. Finally, after conferring together, they asked for more time to con-sider the question, and it was mutually agreed that they should have four weeks in which to make their decision. Mr. Dickson immediately reported the result of the council to this office, and having agreed with tho Indians to revisit them at the expiration of the time fixed to receive their final answer, he returned to other duties in Washington Territory. He became convinced that if the Indians had been required to decide |