New Orleans Republican., 1871-07-14

\ the commission of citizens serving without
pay, appointed by the President under the
provisions of the fourth section of the act of
April ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,
the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; and
said commission is hereby continued with
the powers and duties heretofore provided
by law: Provided, That hereafter no pay
ments shall be made by any officer of the
United States to contractors for goods or
supplies of any sort furnished to the Indians,
or for the transportation thereon, or for
any buildings or machinery erected or placed
on their reservations, under or by virtue OF
any contract entered into with the Interior
Department, or any branch thereof, on the
receipts or certificates of the Indian agents
or superintendents for such supplies, goods,
transportation. buildings, or machinery
beyond fifty per cent Of the amount due
until the accounts and vouchers shall have
been submitted to the executive com
mittee of the board of commissioners
appointed by the President of the
United States, and organized under
the provisions of the fourth section of the
act of April ten, eighteen hundred and sixty
nine, and the third section of the act ap-
proved July fifteenth, eighteen, hundred
and seventy, for examination, revisal and
approval; and it shall be the duty of said
board of commissioners, without unneces-
sary delay, to forward said accounts and
vouchers so submitted to them to the Secre-
tary of the Interior, with the reasons for
their approval or disapproval of the same,
in whole or in part, attached thereto; and
said Secretary shall have power to sustain,
set aside or modify the action of said board,
and cause payment to be made or withheld
as he may determine.
For this amount, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, for the purchase of pro-
visions for Red Clouds band of Sioux In
dians, to relieve their present wants, and to
subsist them until July first, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-one, one hundred and
sixty-ive thousand dollars; provided, that
so much of the amount hereby appropriated
as may be necessary shall be used to reim-
burse the Subsistence department for sup
plies furnished by that department, under
the direction of the President of January
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy
one.
For this amount, to carry on the work of
instructing and aiding the Indians of the
Central superintendency in the arts of
civilization with view to their self sup
port. to be expended under the direction of
the Secretary of the Interior, forty thou
sand dollars or so much thereof as he may
deem necessary.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby
authorized to defray the expenses of dele
cations of Indians visiting tho city of
Washington by authority of the United
States, subsequently to the first day of JAN
uary, eighteen hundred and seventy-one,
and to purchase presents for the members
thereof, out of the amount remaining unex-
pended on the thirty-first day of December,
eighteen hundred and seventy, of the sum
of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by
resolution number one hundred and ten,
entitled "A resolution to pay expenses of
delegations of Indians visiting the city Of
Washington" approved July thirteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy; and the
paragraph of the act entitled IAN act max
ing appropriations for the current and con-
tingent expenses of the Indian department,
and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with
various Indian tribes, for the year IN ling
June thirty. eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, and for other purposes" ap-
proved July fifteenth eighteen hundred
and seventy, which is as follows, viz: "For
this amount or so much thereof as may be
necessary for subsistence of the Navajoe
Indians in New Mexico for the year ending
June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy
to be expended under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior, seventy-five thou
sand dollars" be, and the same is hereby,
amended by striking out the words ''eight-
cen hundred and seventy" and inserting in
lieu thereof the words eighteen hundred
and seventy-One."
For this amount, to enable the Secretary
of the Interior to pay Alvin N. Blacklidge
for services rendered and money expended
in taking the census of the Cherokee
Indians, under the provisions of the twelfth
article of the treaty of eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, with said Indians, nine hun
dred and thirty-eight dollars and tifty-fve
cents.
For this amount, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, for the removal of the
Kickapoo and other American Indian tribes
rowing on the borders of Mexico and Texas,
to reservations within the territories of the
United States, and for their settlement and
subsistence on such reservations, forty
thousand dollars.
For this amount, OF so much thereof as
may be necessary, to enable the Secretary
OF the Interior to cause settlements to be
made with all persons appointed by Indian
councils, to receive money due incompetent
or orphan Indians, per act of July five,
eighteen hundred and sixty-twO (Statutes
at Large, volume twelve, pages five hun
dred and twenty-nine and five hundred and
thirty), five thousand dollars.
For surveying such reservations in
Oregon, under treaty stipulations, as may
be rendered necessary, twenty thousand
dollars.
For the erection or purchase, at the dis
cretiOn of the Secretary of the Interior, of
suitable buildings for the Upper Missouri
agency, near Fort Berthold, provided the
same shall be necessary, eight thousand
dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to defray the expenses of
determining the location and remarking
with suitable monuments and establishing
the position of the ninety-siXth meridian
west longitude, from the State of Kansas to
the north line of the Creek country, in the
Indian Territory, five thousand dollars; and
this amount, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, to pay the expenses of hold
ing a general council of the Chero,
Chickasaw Indians, in the Indian
Territory, as provided by the treaties
with said tribes in eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;
Provided, That any other Indian tribe per-
manently located in said Indian Territory
shall be- and is hereby, authorized to elect
and send to said general ceuncll' one
delegate. and in addition one dele
gate for each one thousand Indians or
fraction of a thousand greater than five
hundred, being members of such tribe, on
the same terms and conditions and with the
same rights and privileges, including right
to compensation, as is provided for dele
pates of the tribes hereinbefore mentioned,
and sufficient sum to pay the per diem
and mileage OF such additional delegates is
hereby appropriated.
INTEREST ON TRUST FUND STOCKS.
For payment of interest on certain alb
stracted and non-paying State stocks be.
longing to various Indian tribes land held
in trust by the Secretary of the Interior),
for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eight
cen hundred and seventy-one, viz:
For interest on the Cherokee national
fund, eighteen thousand nine hundred and