New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty.
First Congress.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 52.l

current and contingent expenses OF the
Indian department, and for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes, for the year ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and
for other purposes. ....
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and they are hereby ap-
propr1ated, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose
of paying the current and contingent ex-
penses of the Indian department, and full
filling treaty stipulatiOns with the various
Indian tribes:
For pay of eight superintendents of In
dian affairs, namely: Two superintendent
for the tribes east of the Rocky mountains;
one for Oregon; one for Washington Terri
tory; one for the Territory of New Mexico;
one for California; one for the Territory OF
Arizona, and one for Montana, nineteen
thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of sixty-twO agents of Indian
affairs, namely: Three for the tribes in
Oregon: four for the tribes in New Mexico;
one additional for Indians in New Mexico;
one for the tribes in New Mexico; one for
the tribes in Utah; one additional for the
Indians in Utah. one for the tribes in the
Territory of Utah; eleven for the tribes
east of the Rocky mountains; two for the
tribes east of the Rocky mountains: six for
the Indians east of the Rocky mountains,
namely, Sioux, Seminole. Omaha, Kickapoo,
Kansas, and Neosho agencies; three for the
tribes east of the Rocky mountains; one for
the Indians in the State of New York; one
for Green bay, Wisconsin,; three for the
tribes in Washington Territory; one for
the Wichitas and neighboring tribes west
of the Choctaws and Chickasaws; one for
the tribes east of the Rocky mountains; one
for the Indians in the Territory of New
Mexico; one for the Ponca tribe; one for
the Pawnees; one for the Yankton Sioux;
three for the tribes in the Territory of
Washington; one for the Grand River and
Uintah bands of Indians in the Territory of
Colorado; two for the Upper Missouri and
the country adjacent thereto; one for the
Ottawas; Chippewas OF Swan creek and
Black river, and Christian Indians in
Kansas; three agents for the State of Cali
fornia: one for the Kiowa, Apache,
and Comanche Indians; one for the
Sisseton and Wahepton bands of Dakota
or Sioux Indians; one for the bands of Sacs
and Foxes of the Mississippi, now in Tama
Iowa: one for the Indians in the
State of Nevada; one for the Crow tribe of
Indians; one for the ShoshOnes and Ban
nocks; and one for the Sioux Indians of
Devils Lake, ninety-three thousand six
hundred dollars: Provided, That it shall be
the duty of the President to dispense with
the services of such Indian agents aud super
intendents herein mentioned as may be
practicable; and where it is practicable, he
shall require the same person to perform the
duties OF two agencies or superintendenoies
for one salary.
For pay of six special agents: One for the
Pueblo Indians in New Mexico; one for the
NJ lnc. in A,,u Co. thn
Utes in Nevada; one for the Papagoes and
others in Arizona; one for the Colorado river
agency; and one for the BannOcks and
others at the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho
Territory, nine thousand dollars.
For six sub-agents: -Four for the tribes in
Oregon, and two for the tribes in Washing
ton Territory, six thousand dollars.
For pay of clerk to superintendent for
California, one thousand eight hundred dol
lars.
For temporary clerks to superintendent,
six thousand six hundred dollars.
For pay of ninety interpreters, as follows:
for the tribes in Oregon and
the Territories of Washington, Utah and
New Mexico, at five hundred dollars each;
thirty-six for the tribes elsewhere, at four
hundred dollars each; seventeen extra for
the tribes elsewhere, at four hundred dol
lars each; three for the Indian service in
Utah, at five hundred dollars each; one for
the Shoshones and one for the Utahs, at one
dollars each; one for the Sisseton
and Wahpeton bands of Sioux, four hun
dred dollars; and one for the Sacs and Foxes
of the Mississippi, now in Tama county,
Iowa, four hundred dollars; nine for the In
dian service in the Territories of Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and the State
of Nevada, at five hundred dollars each; in
all. forty thousand five hundred dollars.
For buildings at agencies and repairs of
same, ten thousand dollars.
For vaccine matter and vaccination of
Indians, including deficiency for current ifs
cal year, five thousand dollars.
For presents to and provisions for Indians,
ten thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of medals for In
dams, five thousand dollars.
For actual necessary expenses incurred,
and that may hereafter be incurred, by
officers of the Indian department, in the
rescue OF prisoners from Indian tribes and
them to their homes, and for ex-
penses incident to the arrest and confine
ment within the territory of the United
States, by order of such officers, of persons
charged with crimes against the Indians,
five thousand dollars.
For contingencies, including travelling,
current, and contingent expenses
of superintendent and agents, and of their
Offices, thirty-eight thousand five hundred
dollars.
KIOWAS, AND CONAN
CHES.
For fourth of thirty installments, as pro-
vided to be expended under the tenth
article of the treaty of October twenty-one,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, con-
Guided at Medicine Lodge Creek, in Kansas,
" it'll the Kiowas and Comanches, and I'M
der the third article of the treaty of same
late with the Apaches, thirty thousand
dollars.
For purchase of clothing, as provided in
the same treaties, twenty-six thousand
dollars.
For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith,
miller, and engineer, five thousand two hun
dred dollars.
For pay of physician and teacher, two
thousand five hundred dollars.
For last of three installments, as provided
In the same treaties, to be expended in pres
ents to the ten persons of che said tribes
who, IN the judgment of the agent, may
grow the most valuable crops for the period
five hundred dollars
For transportation of goods, five thousand
dollars.
For purchase of seeds and agricultural
implements to be furnished each head of
family or lodge, who intends to commence
the soil (say one hundred fami-
lies) ten thousand dollars.
APACHES OF ARIZONA AND NEW
MEXICO.
For this amount, to be expended under
the direction of the President, in collecting
the Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico
upon reservations, furnishing them with
subsistence and other necessary articles,
and to promote peace and civilization
among them, seventy thousand dollars:
Provided, that this appropriation shall be
only in behalf of those Indians
who go and remain upon said reservations,
and refrain from hostilities.
eros VENTURES AND