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Show 80 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. JUL2Y6th 1897. I hereby certify on honor that connailmen and voters whose names are signed to the foregoing, fully underataod the matter contained therein; that their signatures and marks are all -ee nnine. and were made after full exnlanation as to where thev were to sign and the purport of the aame. GEORQE YEIS, I~tmreter, UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE, PO'ITAWATOMIE AND GREAT NEMAHA AGENCY. Chippewa and Chrbtian Indian Reseaation, July 86,1897. 1 hereby certify oo honor that the vote of the Chippewa, and Christian Indianq taken this date at the Moravian church and aohoolhouse, on the Chippews and Christian Indian Reservation, as to the acceptanoa or rejeotion of the legislatiotion shown by the 9th sea. of the Indian appropristion act, approved June 7,1897, aa represented in detail in the pitper to which this certificate is attached, is an exprea. sion of the free and unbiased will of the Indians, and was in everyrespect made in good faith and in reality, and that said vote numbered twenty-two (22) for the leg. islat;on and ten (10) against it, and that seven absent members of the tribe did no4 vote. GEORGE W. JAMES, U, 8. Indian Agent. The act provides that the appraisement of "the residue of their lmds" shall be made by a commission, consisting of the aforesaid com. missioner, the Indian agent, and one person to be selected bythe Indian~ in open council. The Indians, while in council, by a unanimous vote selected Robert McCoonse as the member of the commission to be selected by them. BLACKFEET AND FORT BELIKNAP RESERVATIONS, MONTANA. The portions of the Blwkfeet and Fort Belknap reservations ceded by the agreements of September 26,1895, and October 9,1895, respec. tively, and ratified by the act of June 10, 1896, have not yet been opened to settlement. The survey of the ceded portion of the Fort Belknap Reservation has been completed and the work of surveying the Blackfeet boundary is now in progress. DISTURBANCE AMONG INDIANS OF TONG~E RIVER AGENCY, MONTANA. For some time past there has been more or less friction between the Indians of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Mont., and the white cattlemenwho have ranches near by. The Indians complained that the ranchers allow their stock to range over the reservation, and the cattle men charged the Indians with killing their cattle while oE the reserva. tion. The facts show both parties to have been at fault. Nothing serious occurred, however, until last May, when the dead body gf a white sheepherder in the employ of one Mr. Hafcinger, a |