in any official capacity, the administration of the District having been withdrawn from my control shortly after the rebellion was suppressed and the chief difficulties in settling that part of the Island removed. A long period of time has since elapsed, endless complications have arisen, the Natives have hadnumerous and conflicting versions of the intentions of the Government and they have become so bewildered by the different views expressed that it has nowbecome almost if not altogether an impossibility to effect any arrangement of claims on a satisfactory basis. In briefly adverting to some of these difficulties I would refer to the