Congress  failed  to  ratify  the  agreement  thus  made,  but  by  act  of
March  3,  1883,  appropriated  the  sum  of  $10,000  to  continue  the  negoti-
ations, with  certain  modifications  of  said  agreement  (22  Stat.,  624).
The  commission  as  originally  composed  was  authorized  to  continue  the
work.
The  Indians  of  the  Crow  Creek  Agency,  not  having  been  parties  to  the
above-mentioned  agreement  made  with  the  other  bands,  assented  to  the
same  by  a  subsequent  agreement  dated  February  26, 1883.  By  this
agreement  they  became  parties  to  the  first  agreement  made,  and  a
reservation  of  about  300,000  acres  was  retained  for  them  within  that
part  of  the  Great  Sioux  Reservation  east  of  the  Missouri  River  known
as  the  old  Winnebago  and  Crow  Creek  Reservations.  This  adds  a'jother
to  the  reservations  to  be  retained,  making  six  in  all.
The  final  report  of  the  commission  has  not  been  submitted  as  ret.
devil's  lake  RESERVATION.
Reduction  of  Fort  Totten  Military  Reservation,

Until  very  recently  the  Devil's  Lake  Reservation  in  Dakota  pre-
sented the  singular  feature  of  being  divided  into  two  unequal  discon-
nected parts  by  the  military  reservation  of  Fort  Totten,  which,  em-
bracing a  strip  of  country  six  miles  wide,  running  from  the  lake  on  the


XLVIII    EEPORT   OF   THE   COMMISSIONER    OF   INDIAN   AFFAIRS.
north  to  the  soathern  boundary  of  the  Indian  reservation,  entirely
separated  the  one  portion  of  the  Indian  reservation  from  the  other,  to
the  groat  inconvenience  of  the  Indian  service.
At  the  request  of  this  office,  the  honorable  Secretary  of  War,  by
General  Orders  No.  49,  dated  July  5, 1883,  caused  a  considerable  reduc-
tion of  the  military  reservation,  which  will  greatly  relieve  the  embar-
rassment.
THE  TURTLE  MOUNTAIN  COUNTRY  IN  DAKOTA.
