New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-18
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty.
First Congress.
[GEsERAL NAr1RE-No. SCI

tribes, for the year ending June thirty
eighteen hundred and seventy-twO, an(
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives OF the United States o.
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and they are hereby ap
propnated, 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 superintendent of In
| dian affairs, namely: Two superintendent
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 thelState 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
county, 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
lntendents 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 superintenden1ies |
for one salary.
For pay of six special agents: One for the |
Pueblo Indians in New Mexico; one for the |
Moquis Pueblos in Arizona; one for the Pr |
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:
Twenty-one 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
Ihe tribes elsewhere, at four hundred dol
ars 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
md WahpetOn bands of Sioux, four hun
ired dollars; and one for the Sacs and Foxes
If the Mississippi, now in Tama county,
iowa, four hundred dollars; nine for the In
liam service in the Territories of Arizona,
Idaho, Wyoming, and the State
# Nevada, at five hundred dollars each: in
III, forty thousand five hundred dollars.
For buildings at agencies and repairs of
anne, ten thousand dollars.
For vaccine matter and vaccination of |
indians, including deficiency for current ifs
al year, five thousand dollars.
For presents to and provisions for Indians,
en- thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of medals for In
ians, five thousand dollars.
For actual necessary expenses incurred
nd that may hereafter be incurred, by
Ulcers of the Indian department, in the
escue OF prisoners from Indian tribes and !
eturning them to their homes, and for ex-
enses incident to the arrest and contine-
rent within the territory of the United
tates, by order of such officers, OF persons ,
harged with crimes against the Indians,
We thousand dollars.
For contingencies, including travelling, ..
occidental, current, and contingent expenses
superintendent and agents, and of their
fces, thirty-eight thousand five hundred !
Ollars.
PACHES, KIOwAs, AND CONAN :
CHES.
For fourth of thirty installments, as pro- j
ded to be expended under the tenth
'ticle of the treaty of October twenty-one, S
ghteen hundred and sixty-seven, CON S
uded at Medicine Lodge Creek, in Kansas, t
18th the Kiowas and Comanches, and un-
er the third article of the treaty of same n
ste with the Apaches, thirty thousand t
,llars. o
For purchase of clothing, as provided in l
e same treaties, twenty-six thousand b
,llars. T.
For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, !;
iller, and engineer, five thousand two hun
ed dollars.
For pay of physician and teacher, two -
Ousand five hundred dollars. 3
For last of three installments, as provided y
the same treaties, to be expended in pres =,
It's to the ten persons of The said tribes U
no, IN the judgment of the agent, may q;
ow the most valuable crops for the period ~
med, five hundred dollars. .;
FOR transportation Of goods, five thousand 81
liars.
For purchase of seeds and agricultural g,
plements to be furnished each head of a \:
n!ly or lodge, who intends to commence .,
Ihvating the soil (say one hundred fami- a,
81, ten thousand dollars ny
oACHES OF ARIZONA AND NEW =;
MEXICO.
For this amount, to be expended under sc
e direction Of the President, in collecting fo
e Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico ty
on reservations, furnishing them with tie
6slstence and other necessary articles tt
d to promote peace and civilization h,
long them, seventy thousand dollars: b,
divided, that this appropriation shall be
pended only in behalf of those Indians sc
10 go and remain upon said reservations, ar
refrain from hOstilities. dr
eros VENTURES AND tr
MANDANS. dr
cor this amount, to be expended in such &C.
DDS provisions and otbar ap+;olas oe +bo | ~