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Show ern boundary line of the Warm Springs Reser~ation,O regon, required that the Oommission should also visit the Colville Reservation. Wash-ington, to negotiate with the Uolville and other bands of Indians of that reservatiou for the cession of a portion of their reservation. June 8, 1891, the Oommission submitted an agreement conc!uded May 9, 1891. The Indians cede to the United States 1,500,000 acres, or a little more than the north half of the reservation, in coosideration of the payment of $1,500,000 in five equal annual installments, to be dis-tributed per capita among those entitled thereto. Provision is made for the erection of sa.wmil1, blacksmith shop, and schoolhouses iipon certain conditions. The cession is made subject to allotment within the ceded territory of 80 acres to each Indian residing thereon and entitled thereto. : The Oommission report that the ceded portion is estimated to contain about 300,000 awes snitable for agriculture ; that the remainder is valu-able for grazing and timber; that much of it is mountainous and abounds iu mineral deposits; that the reserved portion contains more than 160,000 aokes of agricultural lands; that it6 grazing lauds are for the most part very fine; and that they are satisfied that the Indians have reserved suBoient for their needs for years to come. CHEROKEE COMXISSION. Aclause contained in the Indian appropriation act for the year end-ing June 30,1892 (26 Stats., 1008), authorizes the cou~inuation of the Oherokee Oomn~ission provided for by act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stats., 1005). June 5, 1891, the Oommission, consisting of David 8. Jerome, Alfred M. Wilson, aud Warren G. Sayre, submitted a report conqerning nego-tiations with the Wichitas and atliliated bauds of Indians in the Indian Territory, together with the agreement entered into with them Jane 14,1891. The Commission states that the reservation or tract of country upon which these Indialis reside contains 743,610 acren, and that provisionis miEd0 for 1,060 allotments of 160 wre8 emh, requiring for that purpose 169,600 acres, and leaving available for white settlenlent 574,010 acres, or 3,600 homesteads of one quarter section each. Article 5ve provides that the consideration to be paid, if any, for the surplus lands-not required for allotments as indicated-shall be fixed by Congress, the decision of that body to be final and binding. ROUND ?ALLEY COMMISSION. Henry O. Hunt, David W. Shryock, and Luther R. Smith were ap-pointed commissioners by the President for the purpose of carrying into effect an "Act to provide for the reduction of !he Round Valley Indian Iieservation, in the State of California, and fo; other purposes:' approved October 1, 1890 (26 Stats., 658). 10288 I A-4 |