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Show engaged in collecting data and information for their use; it is expected that the absent members of the Oommission will soon return to duty. The object of the act is the determination and adjustment of the rights of theMission Indians regardiog their lands, as well as the rights and claims of settlers, and it is confidently hop+d that this Com. mlahlon will bring about a satisfactory and final settlement of the troublesome questions which have for so many years beset these Indians and perplexed this office. PUPALLUP COMMISSION. The Pnyallup Oommissron, consisting of Chas. D. Drake. Qeo. B. Kinkead, and B. F. Harness, was appointed by the President under authority of a clause contained in the Indian appropriation act ap-proved Angust 19,1890 (26 Stats., 354), to make full inquiry and inves-tigation in reference to all questions bearing upon the lands of the Puyalliip Reservation, especially as to the wisdom or necessity of the disposal by the Indians of their interest, in whole or in part, in any individual or tribal lands belonging to said reservation. March 11,1891, the Oommissiou submitted its 6nal report to the De-partment, which was referred to this office April 16,1891, for considera. tion. July 8,1891, this ofsce made a full and co~npletere port to the Department as called for, sitbmitting therewith its views and sugges-tions upon the work and final report of the Commission. I WARX SPRINGS COMMISSION. B; virtue of a ulause contained in the Indian appropriation act ap-proved August 19,1890 (26 Stats., 355), \he President appointed Mark A. Fullerton, William E. Dufur, and James F. Payne commissioners , for the.purpose of determining the northern line of the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, according to the terms of the treaty of June 26, 1855. June 8,189i, they submitted their report to the Department, stating among other things that they conolude and find- That the line known the MoQuinn lin8, as surveyed and run, in no respect eonl forms to the said treaty of 1855, and is not the line of the northern boundary of the Warm Springs Reservation or any part thereof; that theline known as the Handley line, as ao~veyed and nm, nubstantially and praatioally conforms to the oalls of the said treaty of 1855, from the initial point of said line op to andinoluding the twenty-sixth ("6tb) mile thereof, [and] it is, therefore, oonsidered and dealared by the Cam-miaaion that the northern boundary of the Warm Spriugs Indian Reaervation,in the State of Oregon, is that part of the line run and surveyed by T. B. Handley,in the year 1871, from the initial point up to and iooludiog the twenty-sixth (26th) mile thereof, thence in a due west aourse to the summit of the CasoadeMountains. COLVILLE COM3fISSION. The clause in the-Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, under which Messrs. Fullerton, Dufur, and Payne were appointed toinvestigate and determine the correct location of the north- |