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hope they will be equally prompt in future,
and no. weary in well doing. We are also
under obligations to our kind friend, Col
John w. Lnmpkin Senator from the
Counties of Pamela and Talahachie, for
his kind remembrance Of u.s.


Below we present to our readers the
Bill introduced in the House of Represen.
tatives of the u. S. by the Hon. Jacob
Thompson. Mr.. t. has been honored
with the importan. Post .of Chairman
of the Committee on Indian AT
fairs. and in virtue of the appointment. II
becomes his duty TO give this subject a
full and thorough investigation. We hope
that no impedilneRt will be attempted 70 be
thrown in the way TO an immediate in
quiry into this subject, as we know
it is one in which many of Mr. Us constit
uents are deeply interested. If however.
fraud has been perpetraied we wish the
fraud brought immediately to light. but if
after full investigation into this much ag-
itated subject, the transaction between those
who bought the lands and the indians who
sold them, should prove to be honest and
legitimate, then we hope this subject will
no longer be introduced to agitate the pub,
lie mind.


Resolred, That the President of the Z.
ni'ad States cause to be communi icated to
this House the number of Indian claim
ants who applied for the allowance of land
to the Board of Commissioners organized
in the Sia.e of Mississippi by virtue of
the act entitled AN act for the appoint
ment of comm issioners to adjust the claims
to- reservations of land under the fourteenth
article of the treaty of 1880 with the Choc-
taw Indians" approved March 3, 1857,
which act was continued in force until the
we'd February 20, 1888; and also to the
coard organized in said State, in pursuance
of an act approved Angus. %, 1912, in
| relation to the same subject the number
of claimants approved, and the number re-
jected the qanlity of land required to sat.
isfy all the claims allowed the amount of
idHu aCtudily dSSigucu tue 1uuIauS Dy Vif.
tue of their continued residence according
to The requirements of the treaty the a.
mount Of scrip issued for those Indians
who had been deprived oftheir lands, ,in those
cases where lands have been assigned the
indians what protection against fraud and
deception is afforded the Indians by the
| Government in their alienation of the,
same /; what proof is required that fair
consideration has been paid by the purcha-
SCI to the Indian and wha, is, in a majors
| itv Of cases, deemed fair cons liberation to
render deed satisfactory to the depart.
ment; in those cases where scrip is issued,
what guards against imposition ale thrown
around the transfer of the same; and what
sum is generally estimated by the depart
ment a satisfactory consideration for the
same and what are the regulations for the
/ receipt of said scrip in payment of lands
how much of said scrip has been yet re-
ceived and for what description OF lands
will the said scrip be received in payment,
whether for"lands subject to private entry.
for payment of pre-emption entries, or for
any lands which have not besn offered at
public sale.


The resolution was read and adopted.