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Saunsoci, giving him a home rent free for his lifetime, and holding the other half of the house as a place to put some other poor and old person. The Agency house to be rented to the trader. They proposed to repair one of the larger shops so as to make a counsel house and court room, thus giving the people a place for public assemblies. They also asked to sell the mill and its machinery, and with the proceeds purchase a threshing machine. It may be proper to explain that the flour turned out by the mill was of poor quality; the people generally getting their wheat ground elsewhere; the mill was out of repair and the tribe in need of a threshing machine.

It is but just to the Omahas to state, that these plans, so far as I know, were original with the Indians. They speak well for the growth of public sentiment and provision for the future.

As to the 2d item: When the Omahas sold their hunting grounds in 1855 they received [[number handwritten within typed page, begins with nonstandard symbol]] 840.000.00 [[typed text resumes]] to be paid in diminishing installments of the principal. They are now on the last set of payments, receiving $10,000 per year for 12 years [[the 2 in 12 is handwritten in ink]]. At the time the delegates were here, $90,000. was still due the tribe. The Indians asked to hae this sum paid them in one instalment. The Indian Commissioner recommended it to be made in two payments. A bill to this effect was afterwards