Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-05
WASHINGTON.
TNDrAN AFFAIRS,

/ Commissioner Drummond, of the Gem
eral Land Office, has addressed the follow
| ing letter to the Register and Receiver AZ
Taylor's Falls, Minnesota:
stBy communication from the Honorable
| Commissioner of Indian Atfsirs, am in
| formed that settlers and others are en-
| teriuR upon lands comprised within the
| limits of the Mile Lac Indian reservation
| in your district, and filing claims there
| for under the impression that these lands
are now public lands, opened to settle
ment and entry. You are now informed
that these lands are still occupied by the
Indians, and are not subject to disposal,
and YOU are requested to give pubic
notice bY advertisement in newspapers of
general circulation in that neighborhood,
/ of the above fact, and also that all settle
ments and entries thereon are Illegal and
will not be recognized by this office.
You will transmit an abstract OF
all the filings or locstions you may
have allowed for said lands and report
why you permitted the same. Allow
no entries on these lands until so ordered
by this office. The encroachments above
referred to are upon the townships land,
mainly covered with pine forests, which,
although ceded long ago to the United
States, with other Minnesota and Indiana
lands, the Mile Lac Indians are still al
lowed to occupy, Inder 15nd The previous
the stipulation that owing to the hereto
fore good conduct of the Mile Lac
Indians, they shall not be compelled to
remove so long as they shall not in any
wsy interfere with or in any manner mo-
| lest persons or property OF the whites. In
order to adjust the claims of certain indi-
vidusl chiefs, to whom small tracts had
been allotted, reservation has however
been surveyed, and the settlers In
following the lines of the survey, have
perhaps lost the right one, or at any
late have disregsrded the possessory
title of the Indians. Secretary Delano
has addressed the follwing to the Acting
Commissioner on Indian Affairs:
DEPARTM'T OF THE INTERIOR,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.
SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt Of your communication, dated
August 3lst, In relstion to intrusions by
white people upon what is termed the
Cherokee country. In this communicR-
ton you refer TO letters received from
Superintendent Hoag, and agents John B.
Jones and Isaac Gibson, all of which con-
firm the report in reference to the white
people upon such country, and their deter
minstion to locate and permanently settle
upon the same. An examination Of the
treaty stipuls lstions in reference to this
country satisfies me that such settlements
are violations of the laws and treaties OF
the United States, and that they should
be prevented If possible. I deem it sd-
visable, therefore, that you should address
a communication to Superintendent Hoag
on this subject, in which you will request
him to give notice of the decision to tbs
Department in reference to the intrusion
upon the Indian country before alluded to
and warn all persons who have already
gone into the country that unless they
Immediately remove therefrom the
Government will take such steps as
are necessary to such removal. The
Superintendent should also be directed
to notify all white persons, in future to
desist from any attempt TO settle in the
Indian Territory, south of Kansas aDd
west of Arkansas and Wisconsin. Should
any persons, already located in this terri
tory, refuse to remove, or should any
hereafter, in violation of the order which
you are requested to issue, settle within
the Indian country, you will request Hosg
to notify your office Of the facts, 10 which
case steps will be taken to remove such
persons from the Indian country.
TSignedl G. DELAN0,
Secretary.
To Hon. b. R. Clum, Acting Commits
sioner OF Indian Affairs.
Ten of the Warmoth delegation, from
New Orleans, left Washington Tonight to
meet the other part of the delegation in
New York, and st ten O'Clock tomorrow
morning all of them will proceed to Long
Branch to meet the President by appoint