River, where they and their ancestors had lived from time immemorial, and migrated to the country they now own and occupy.

The same is substantially true of the Cherokees, Choctaws, Seminoles, and other civilized Indians in the Territory.

They are by right, and under a guarantee from the United States, embodied in treaties to the effect that they should never be included within the bounds or jurisdiction of a State or Territory without the consent of the Indians.

Now, in violation of all these treaties, comes the proposition to open a portion of the Territory to settlement; which means a Territorial Government, first for the district known as Oklahoma and next for the Indian Territory. And that means, as already stated, annihilation of Indian rights, laws, and governments, and the gradual extermination of the Indians themselves; because the two races cannot live together and prosper. The weaker and less skillful in managing their own affairs must yield to the stronger and more artful.

Your attention, therefore, is respectfully but earnestly invited to the whole subject, including treaties between the United States and the several tribes or nations in the Indian Territory, to the end that justice may be done to all parties in interest. Respectfully submitted.

L. C. PERRYMAN,
E-FI-E-MAH-LA,

Creek Delegates.

To the PRESIDENT and the SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

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LETTER

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR,

TRANSMITTING

A tracing of the unconfirmed private land claim, No. 123, New Mexico, known as the Santisima Trinidad tract.

JANUARY 30, 1885.-Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, January 28, 1885. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a tracing of the plat of the preliminary survey of the unconfirmed private land claim, No. 123, in the Territory of New Mexico, known as the Santisima Trinidad, or rancho de Galvan tract, Francisco Sandoval, claimant, Ignacio Sanches Vergara, original grantee.

This plat is transmitted that it may be filed with the report of the surveyor-general of New Mexico, under the eighth section of the act of Congress approved July 22, 1854, Stats. vol. 10, p. 308, in this case, a copy of which was sent to you by this Department, January 8, 1884. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. M. TELLER,

The Hon. PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE PRO TEMPORE.

Secretary.

A tracing of the unconfirmed private land claim, No. 109, New Mexico, known as the Rancho de Taos.

JANUARY 30, 1885.-Referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims and ordered to be printed.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, January 28, 1885.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a tracing of the plat of the preliminary survey of the unconfirmed private land claim, No. 109, in the Territory of New Mexico, known as the Rancho de Taos, Francisco de Antonia de Gijosa, claimant.

This plat is transmitted that it may be filed with the report of the surveyor-general of New Mexico, under the eighth section of the act of Congress approved July 22, 1854, Stats., vol. 10, p. 308, in this case, a copy of which was sent to you by this Department December 11, 1880. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. M. TELLER,

The Hon. PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, pro tempore.

Secretary.