by commissioners appointod for the purp0se, preparatory to their sale.

The Indians at present located in the Indian Territory an ex- tensive district, bounded north by Kansas, east by Missouri and Arkansas, sontlh by Texas, and west by the one hundredth merid ian, desiguated by the commissionors appointed under Act of Con gress, July 20tb, 1807, to cstablish pcace witlh ecrtain hostile tribes, as one of two great Territories (tho other eing, in the main, the present Territory of Dakota, west of the Missouri) upon which might be concentrated the great body of all the Indians enst of the Rocky Mountains-are tlie Clierokces, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Crecks, Seninoles, Senecas, Shawnees, Quapaws, Ottawas of Blan cliard's Fork and Roche de Boeuf, Peorias, and confederated Kas kaskias, Weas and Piankeshaws, Wyandottes, Pottawattomics, Sacs and Foxcs of the Mississippi, Osages, Kiowas, Conancles, the Ar- apahocs aud Cheyennes of the soutlh, the Wichitas and other alil iated bands, and a small band of Apaches long confederated with the Kiowas and Comanchcs. **

Choctars and Chickasaws Thcse trihes are for certain national purposes confederated. The Choctaws, numbering 16,000-an in- crease of 1000 on the enumeration fior 1871-have a reservation of 6,088,000 acres in the south-eastern part of the Territory; and the Chickasaws, numbering 6000, own a tract containing 4,377,600 acres adjoining the Choctaws on the west. These tribes original ly inhabited the section of country now embraced within the State of Mississippi, and were removed to their present location in ac- cordance with the terms of the treaties conclnded with thom, re- spectively, in 1820 and 1832. The remarks made respecting the language, laws, educational advantages, industrial pursuits, and adyancement in the arts and customs of civilized life of tlie Clier okees will apply in the main to the Choctaws and Chickasaws The Choctaws have thirty-six schools in operation, with an at- tendance of 819 scholars; the Chickasaws eleven, with 379 scholars The Choctaws, nnder the trecaties of November 16th, 1805, October 18th, 1820, January 20th, 1825, and June 22d, 1855, re- ceive permanent annuities as follows: in money, $3000; for sup- port of goverument, cducatiou, and other bencficinl purposes, $25,512 89; for support of light-horsemen, 600; and for iron and steel, $320. They also have United States and State stocks, held in trust for them by the Secretary of the Interior, to the amount of 8506,427 20, divided as follows: on account of Choctaw