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Show he therefore recommended that Porcupine be released. No objection being made thereto by the Tongue River agent, Porcupine was released from custody March 28 and allowed to return to his home on the res-ervation. Since then nothing fi~i+her has been heard from him, and it is believed that the punishment has been effective. Z m I PUEBLO GRANT, NEW MEXICO. A bill (H. 11. 8635) was introduced in Congress Februav 16, 1900, "To confirm title to certsiu land to the Indians of the pueblo of Zuiii, in the Territory of New Mexico," and was favorably reported (Report 1571) without amendment from the Committee on Indian Affairs May 17, 1900, but no further action seems to have been taken on the bill. The recommendation made in the last annual report is respectfully urged upon the coming Congress, that the title to their land be con-firmed to these Indians, inasmuch as all the title papers held by them for land- occupied by them for over two hundred years were a few years ago accidentally destroyed by fire. NEW YORK INDIANS. By the Indian appropriation act of March 3, 1901 (31 Stats., 1077), the Secretary of the Interior was directed to withhold $10,000 from the amount appropriated by the act of February 9, 1900 (31 Stats., 27), to pay the judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the New York Indians, for the puipse of defraying the necessary expenses of ascertaining the beneficiaries of that judgment. June 12, 1901, the Department directed this office to take immediate preliminary steps to ascertaiu and determine those who are entitled to participate in the distribution of the fund and suggested a method of notifying prospective claimants te present their claims for adjudica-tion, etc. July 27,1901, theoffice submittedto the Department a form of adver-tisement giving notice to claimants of the proposed payment and to file their applications in this office on blanks prepared for that purpose. An amended form of advertisement was app~vvedb y the Department Auguwt 6 and the same was publiwhed by this o5ce September 1. By its terms the enrollment will close on December 1, 1901. WENATCHI INDIANS, WASHIN@TON. The i.emoval of Wenatchi Indians to the Colville Reservation, Wash., was not accomplished last spring, as had been intended. From the facts 1-ported March 28, 1901, by Agent Albert M. Anderson, of the Colville Agency, in response to office instructions of Februrtry 16 last, |