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requested to establish Military posts at such points as will prove effectual in protecting the citizens and in restraining the Indians, but the General of the Army reports that he has not the troops at his command for the purpose General Pope recommends a consolidation of the three Agencies into one, and the establishment of that Agency on the Charm River. This recommendation is approved by General Sherman and herewith are copies of the reports of these two officers to the War Department, accompanied by a diagram of the country.

  In my annual report I recommended the removal of all the Indians in Colorado and Arizona to the Indian Territory, and a bill is pending in Congress, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the Utes for the extinguishment of the title to their lands, and thus removal as indicated, but should the bill become a law, and it  e found that the consent of the Indians