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The provisional treaty, communicated to the Senate at its last session, concluded by Col Gadsden with the Seminole Indians, will be obligatory, on its ratification by that body. The deputation of their chiefs, which went to Arkansas to examine their destined country, has returned, and reported favorably upon it for their future residence. The want of an appropriation to defray the expense, prevented the removal of most, if not all of them during the past season.

In the progressive execution of the late Creek treaty, an unfortunate circumstance took place, which has occasioned considerable excitement in the State of Alabama. By a provision of that treaty, all intruders were to be removed from the ceded land, until the country was surveyed, and the stipulated selections were made. This has not yet been done, and in the interim repeated complaints of gross injustice and cruel treatment towards the Creeks were received by the department. It was represented that in many instances they were driven from the lands they had cultivated, that they were unmercifully beaten, that their dwellings were bunt, and that they were compelled to flee to the woods for safety Under these circumstances of provocation and outrage, the persecuted Indians applied to the Government for that protection guarantied to them by the treaty. Instructions were accordingly issued to the marshal of the southern district of Alabama, couched in conciliating language, to expel the intruders, after giving them reasonable notice to leave the ceded land, aud so to execute the order as to occasion them the least possible loss and inconvenience. They had put theinselves in the wrong, and it devolved upon the Government to right the injured party. In the discharge of that duty by the marshal, an intruder, named Owen, lost his life by resisting the law of the land. It has been officially represented to the department that, previously to the catastrophe, on his evincing a determination not to yield to authority, he had been expostulated with, and cautioned to forbear resistance: also, that he was armed, and, while in the act of firing at one of the men on duty, was shot in that hostile position. The occurence, however much to be deplored, seems, from the above representation, to have been avoidable only at the extreme peril of lite: and that to the reckless rashness of the individual can alone be imputed the unhappy result of his original trespass.

Under an act of the last session of Congress, to enable the President to extinguish the Indian title to land within the States of Indiana and Illinois, and the Territory of Michigan, commissioners were appointed, and a treaty has been concluded with the united nation of Chippewa, Ottowa, and Pottawatomie Indians, by which they have relinquished to the United States all their land within the said States, and all that was held or claimed by them jointly in the said territory. The treaty comes particularly commended in the fact of total cession without any reservation, thereby ensuring the prompt emigration of the Indians, and serving as a prevention of unjust speculation in their lands.

The commissioners appointed by the act of July 14, 1832, to adjust difficulties in the location of the land of the emigrating Indians, and for other purposes, have happily succeeded in concluding a treaty with the Creeks and Cherokees, whereby the boundaries of the lands of the two nations have been definitively and permanently established, and a long existing controversy has been terminated to their mutual satisfaction.

ritoty of Arkansas. them land weet of the Mississippi, to induce their removal from the TerThey have also concluded a treaty with the Quapaws, and assigned

advantageously situated, and progressing towards civilization with The commissioners represent the Indians west of the Mississippi to be

steady pace.

lence and rapine. force among them, have, in a great degree, repressed their spirit for vio Indian tribes. Tendency to civilization, and the presence of a military) Few hostilities have been committed during the past year among the

INDIAN SCHOOLS.

an Schools, during the past year, a full statement of their condition canAs reports have been received from only twenty of the fifty-three Indi(See Vol XI. page 239.)

not be given in this Volume

Statement showing the amount and disposition of the funds, provided by treaties, for| purposes of education.

Tribes.

Date of Treaty.

Laws.

Amount

Disposition of the Funds.

Miamies
Oct 26, 1826 Mar. 2, 1827 2,000 Choctaw Academy.
Pottawatamies Oct. 26, 1826 Mar. 2, 1827
Sep., 30, 1828 Mar. 2, 1829
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Jan. 20, 1825 Mar. 3, 1828 6,000 Choctaw Academy.
Sep. 27, 1830 Mar. 2, 1831 12,500 Cherokees & schools in nation.
Sep 27, 1830 Mar. 2, 1831 10,000 Choctaw Academy.

Oct. 27, 1832 Mar. 2, 1833
Sep. 15, 1832 Mar. 2, 1833
Feb. 8, 1831 Mar. 2, 1833
Aug. 5, 1826 Mar. 2, 1827

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1832 June 4, 1832
1828 May 28, 1828
1823 May 26, 1824
1818 Mar. 3, 1819

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2,500 Am. Board of Foreign Missions
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INDIAN AGENTS.

Officers and other persons employed in the Indian Department.

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COMMISSIONERS AND SPECIAL AGENTS.

To treat with the Indians West of the Mississippi, and for other purposes.

Montfort Stokes, Commissioner,

Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner,

J. F. Schermerhorn, Commissioner,

$8 per day, and $8 for every 20

miles of travel to each.

Samuel C. Stambaugh, Secretary, $5 per day, and $5 for every 20 miles

travel.

To treat with the Pottawatamies of Illinois.

George B. Porter, Commissioner,
Thos. J. V. Owen, Commissioner,
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$8 per day, and $8 for every 20 miles of travel to each.

To treat with the Miamies of Indiana.

George B. Porter, Commissioner,
J. F.Schermerhorn, Commissioner,
William Marshall, Commissioner,

$8 per day, and $8 for every 20 miles of travel to each.

To locate Choctaw Reservations.

George W. Martin, Agent, $5 per day, and $5 for every 20 miles of travel.

To locate reservations of Choctaw Orphans.

William Trahern, Agent, $5 per day, and $5 for every 20 miles of travel. To superintend Choctaw emigrations.

William Armstrong, Special Agent, $2000 per annum.

To superintend Cherokee emigrations. Benjamin F. Currey, Special Agent, $2000 per annum. For enrolling the Cherokees, East.

J. M. C. Montgomery, Ageut,

William M. Davis, Agent,

William Harding, Agent,

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$1000 per annum to each.

To superintend the remoral of the Pottawatamies. Abel C. Pepper, Special Agent, $2000 per annuın.

For the removal of the Pottawatamies,

R. Schoonover, Assistant Agent, $4 per day.
Lewis H. Sands, Assistant Agent, $4 per day.

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