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Show renewal of the difficulties which characterized the year 1853. Those first disposed for peace were Tabba, Sanpitch, and Grospine, the principal leaders of the disaffected were Tintick, Squash and An-tan-guer (Blackhawk). The Cheifs frequently complained that they had now no place of safety where their animals could feed as in former years in consequence of so much of the land having been improved and fenced in by the settlers, and requested that a pasture should be made for them bordering on the Provo river near their fishing grounds where they could fish and at the same time protect themselves and animals from the Sho-shonee of Snake Indians with whom they are almost constantly at war and in continual dread, and urging still further that there would be nonnecessity for encroaching upon the improved land of the settlers. I agreed to their proposals and communicated their wishes to Your Excellency who instructed me to carry the same into execution. As it is customary for the Indians to stop and camp for some time on their annual fishing excursions at the cities of Springville, & Palmyra, and as the citizens of those places have suffered much from the same cause as those of Provo and as Your Excellency has instructed me to make separate enclosures at the above named places I shall proceed at as early a day as possible to give it that attention which the exigency of the case demands and report through you to the Department of Indian Affairs. As I am not yet informed where the Indians will make their selections for the pastures at the different settlements and as I shall give them that privilege according to your instructions I cannot at this time determine whether it will encroach upon the improvements of the citizens of not, but will endeavour to give that |