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Show 34 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Paid for blank plats, and other material for office use. ........... $38.51 Paid for feed and drugs for team and repairs to harness and wagon, and for fuel and lieht and 1.ewir8 to office and barn ............ 301.40 Paid for ttanaportatian and hoard of removals, visiting Indiana and reimbursements of traveling expenses of allotting and removal agents ............................................... 795.30 Total ...................................................... 14,011.49 Crow, Flathead, Northern Cheyenne, Uintah, and Yakima Commission, The Indian appropriation act approved July 1,1898 (30 Stats., p. 571), contains the following provision: For continning the work of the commission appointed under the act of Congress approved Juue tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-sin, to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other Indiana, fifteen thousand dollam, the same to he available for the payment of salary and proper expenses of said oommiseion from and after the date when the appropriation of ten thonsand dolli~rem ade by the act of June sev-enth.. o.ie.h toen hindred and ninety-seven. was exhausted. md s s i d commission shall continuo its work and make ire iloxl report thore(sn tu tltu Serretury of the Interior 0x3 tile l i r ~dt ay of April, eighteen hundred and nioety.niue, nud upo~tt hat doto rho commission ahall cease. In the annual report of last year I stated that Samuel L. Taggart, of Dubuque, Iowa, replaced Charles G. Hogt as a member of the commis-sion. Mr. Taggart has since been appointed a special agent of this office and Mr. Hoyt has been reinstated as a commissioner; the other members of the commission are Benjamin F. Barge and James H. McNeely. February 5,1898, the commission submitted to the Department an agreement made with the Indians residing on the Fort Hall Reserva-tion, Idaho, for the cession of a portion of their surplus lauds. The agreement was referred by the Department, February 12,1898, to this office for report, and on the 218t of that month this office submitted a draft of a bill for the ratification of the agreement. It was introduced into the Seude (No. 4073, Fifty-fifth Congress, sectond session) and was favorably reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. A full history of the matter is contained in Senate Doc. No. 169, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session. The commission also concluded an agreement with the Uintah and White River Utes by which they sold, ceded, and relinquished to the United States necessary lauds for the use of such of the Unoompahgre Utes as might conclude to remove to the Uintah Reservation. This agreement was submitted by the Department to the Senate January 21, 1898, with recommendation that it receive the favorable action of Congress (Senate Doc. No. 80, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session), but no action appears to have been taken thereon by Congress. The commission is stii in the field, and it is trusted that it will com-plete its work by the 1st day of next April. Five Civilized Tribes Commission.-The Curtis act, referred to hereaftel, added largely to the duties of the commission to the Five Civilized |