Par. 40 to 67.

In conformity with the principles stated in the outset, I refrain from entering minutely into these page 38 paragraphs relating to the "points in dispute" between the Government and the Native claimants. They contain many statements which I believe to be incorrect, to be supported by very infirm evidence, and to be capable of being impugned by better evidence, but I avoid raising minor and immaterial issues which, after all, we are not in a position to decide. Our complaint and grievance is this: that these points cannot be ascertained until the Government shall do in the end, what it ought to have done in the beginning, that is to say, institute a proper inquiry into the facts of the case.