The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-04


understand, TO your credit. Do your deposit account
show, under each head, the amount received by the
nited States, the amount paid and the amount now
duei
Answer. The accounts are placed 10 my r,dit, as
disburslng agent, in bank, and kept under one
head only.
Question. How, then can you tell the slate Of the
funds respectively
Answer. By my book of accounts.
Question. To what head does your book of ac-
counts charge the sums belonging to the incompetent
fund, and paid by the agent you have stated, on
account of the general fund
Answer. charge it to the agent generally.
| Question Have there been no moneys account
| of the general fund since 1897
Answer. Yes moneys have been collected and ex-
pended.
Question. Why, then, are not the accounts of the
several funds adjusted
Answer. 1t will be done inn,ed atey. 1t was not
until recently that We knew that the books be-
hind. page 73.)
Question. Will you let me the book in which
you keep these Indian accounts
The book is brought in,)
Question. How much is to your credit in the diie-
rent banks where you keep your accounts
Answer. 1t varies from two to three hundred thou
sand dollars.
Question. Is this composed of interest invest
ments for the Indian tribes and balances of appropra
tons unex pended?
Answer. 1t is.
preparations have remained unexpended
Answer. Some have remained since 1881.
Question. What is the date of the last investment
of Indian funds in any State stock'
Answer. February, lS4i Pennsylvania stock was
bought.
Question At what rate2
Answer. AT 81 and 81. page 10
The witness further states, 10 answer to va
rious questions, that about two millions and a
quarter OF dollars Of the Indian funds in
vested in stocks of Kentucky Tennessee, Ala
bama, Maryland, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsyl-
vania, Missouri, Arkansas and the United
States, that the lowest of the funds are n ow on
ly worth one-third of par; that portion of
them cost from 3 l-2 to IA cents over par, viz !:
the stocks of Maryland, Michigan, Missouri
and Indiana, and that they have been paid out
to the Indians at par within few months'
Mr.. Mix, clerk in the Indian Office, APP
peared:
Question by the Chairman What has been the
probable amount disbursed through this bureau, (in-
GLIDING the probable value OF all reservations under
Indian trea'ies) for executing carrying into effect
lndian treaties since 1902
Answer. The data in the possession of this Office
is sufficient to enable me to answer within any
Of the probable amount sbursed through this bureau
for executing carrying into effect Indian treaties
since $780, The accounts for disbursements In
dian account are adjusted by the Second Auditor and
Second Comptroller of the Treasury Department,
and filed in the Office of the former, who annually
submits by authority Of law, "ist of the names of
all persons to whom money, goods, or effects, have
been delivered on Indian account. The annual state
ment communicated to the House of Representatives
of the United States by the Register of the Treasu-
ry shows the expenditures in the Indian Department
estimate the probable value of all admitted claims to
reservations under treaties, since 1890 to be about
81, 100000. pages SO and SD
| Mr.. MILLER appeared.
| Question by Chairman What are your duties and
your salary
Answer. l am the book-keeper of the appropria-
tons for the Indian Department. My salary $1,000
| year.
! Question. How much time is occupied in making
the entries in the book of appropriations
/ Answer Less than one-fourth of my time is thus
| occupied.
| Question. What is the date of the last entries in
| this book
| Answer The LIST April, 1872
! Question. How many entries made on that
day
Answer Two
Question. viii you let the committee see the APP
preparation books for the last several years?
1.-THE books for 1887, 1885, 1889, l84O, and lS4l,
were brought in.]
Question. Do these books show regular accounts
OF disbursements under appropriations to the several
agents, and for each respective service, under the
appropriate head, or do they only show the amount
appropriated and the aggregate called for by requis
| ton of the Department?
Answer They only show the amount of the APP
preparation, and the amount RENTED under requis
ton, and to whom RENTED
Question. Have these books been regularly kept
Answer. | can only answer as to that which
have kept since about March, l841.
Question. Can you not answer as to the others
from inspection They are before you.
Answer. The book for 1889 and 1910 does moi
appear to have been kept think it my duty t.
keep it now pages 60 and A.