Sums due Chippewa and other Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting reports of the amounts due Chippewa, Ottawa, and other Indians now residing in the State of Michigan

Reports if tlu amounts due Chippewa, -Ottawa, and other• Indians now residing in the State if JJfichigan.DECEMBER 23, 1862.-Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. SUMS DUE CHIPPEWA AND OTH ER INDIANE'.No payments were made to the Indians who remained in Michigan untill843.]<'rom that date until the last year $1, 587 50 have been paid each y ear, and divided among them.I transmit herewith a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in which he estimates the amount due to that portion of the nation who remained in Michigan, in pursuance of tbe supplementary treaty of September 27, 1833, at $73, 112 50.'Whatever sum may be found due to these Indian~ must be paid from the sum due to the Pottawatomie nation.I am not informed of the data upon which the estimate of the Commissioner is made, nor have I been able to procure from the Indian office such information as would enable me to report to Congress the amount clue to the band remaining• in Michigan.As the report of the Commissioner was only made on the 15th ultimo, there has not been sufficient time to procure the necessary information and enable me to report during the present session of Congress.'l'he band which, by the supplementary treaty, was permitted to remain in Michigan must be regarded as a part of the Pottawatomie nation.They are entitled to receive, per capita, their proportion of the annuities and other payments provided for in the several treaties with the nation to the same extent they would have been if they had g•one west with the tribe.To determine the amount due to them it is necessary to ascertain the number in Kansas at the elate of the several payments, and the number of those of the band who, by the supplementary treaty, were permitted to remain in Michigan, and of their descendants at the same periods.'l'his information cannot•be obtained from the records of the Indian office.Believing the report of the Commissioner upon the amount clue to the Pottawatomie nation to be substantially correct, I recommend an appropriation of that amount, with instructions to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the directions of the Secretary of the Interior, to ascertain the amount clue to that portion of the nation who remained in Michigan under the stipulations of the -supplementary treaty, and to pay the same from the appropriation for the benefit of the nation.. Very respectfully , your obedient servant,

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