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Show 100 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIES. THE WENATOHEE FISHERY. By the tenth article of the Yakama treaty of June 9,1856 (12 Stats., 954), there was reserved and set apart from the lands ceded by the treaty, for the use and benefit of said Indians- A tlact of land not exocecliling in qnantity one tolrnship of 6 miles square situated at tht: forks of the Pisqnause or T\'enatehapam Rlrwr, and known as the Wenat-shapam fishery, which said roservstion shall be mrveyed and marked out whenever the Presirlent mcg. direct, and $a subject to the same provisions and restrictions as other Indian roservat.ians. July 19,1892, Jay Lynch, agent for the Yakama Indians, on their behalf, called attention to this provi8ion of the treaty and asked whether or not said tract of land had ever been surveyed and definitely located and marked out as provided in said treaty. The records of the office failed to disclose any inforlnation of such a survey or even the location of th.e tract, and upon i~iqnirym ade of the Indians they were equally ignorant respecting its status. August 27,1892, thefactswererel~ortedtotheDepartmenta, ndrequest made that autl~orityb e given the Iudian agent, to visit the locality of said 1': 6 ~ h e r y ~ ~daes.csr ibedin the treaty, and to locate the same by metes and bounds, or by natural objects, taking care not to interfere with the vested rights of ally settlers or other parties who might be located thereon. The authority beiuin,q granted, the agent mas dnly instructed on the 8th of September to visit and definitely locate the tract of land, so that it might be surveyed and marked out, under the directions of the President, as the treaty stipulated. This was done, and report of his action was made October 24. The tract of land recommended by him as the land to be set apart was substantially the reservation pro-vided for in the treaty, and is described as follows: Com:mencing at a @point on the right bank or west shore of Lake TVenatchee, 1+ miles by the shore line from the right bank of the river TVenstohee, where it leaves (not eoters) t l l~ake ; thenoe in a southwesterly dirsotion to n point 1& miles due southn est from the inanth of the river; thenoe southoastwardly, parallel to the gen-eral course of the river, 10 miles; thenoe in e northeasterly direction, and across said river, 3 miles; thence in a northwesterly direction, parallel to the general course of the river, to the lake; thonoe in a direct line across thelske to the place of begin-ning, provided the area does not exceed the quantity of 6 milea square, limited by the trs:%ty. On the recommerldation of this office, November 21,1892, the Deyart-ment yequested the President to authorize a survey to be made by the surve~ror-generaolf Washington, under the supervision of the Yakama Indian agent, of the tract of land above described, allowing him, how-ever, to make such divergence from the above-described outbonndaries as in ids jndgment the topography of the land might demand, provided that the lines surveyed and marked out when completed should embrace the whole of the land contemplated to be set apart by the |