Arizona citizen., 1872-09-07
ABOUT LOSSES BY INDIANS.

Rules and Regulations Adopted by
 the Department of the Interior Relative to the Presentation and
 Examination of Claims on Account
 of Depredations Committed by In-
 dians.
 By the seventh section of the Act
 of Congress, making appropriations
 for the Indian Department, approved
 May 29, 1872, it is enacted: "That
 1t shall be the duty of the Secretary
 of the Interior to prepare and cause
 to be published, such rules and regu-
 lations as he may deem necessary or
 proper, prescribing the manner of
 presenting claims arising under ex-
 isting laws or treaty stipulations, for
 compensation for depredations con-
 mitted by the Indians, and the degree and character of the evidence neces-
 sary to support such claims; he shall carefully investigate all such claims as may be presented, subject to the rules and regulations prepared by him, and report to Congress at each session thereof, the nature, character, and amount of such claims, whether allowed by him or not, and the evil dence upon which his action was
 based; provided, that no payment on account of said claim shall be made without specific appropriation by Congress.
 In compliance with the requirement of the law as quoted above, the fol- lowing rules and regulations are prescribed:
 1. Application for indemnity or satisfaction for the loss or injury sus- tained must be made by the claimant, his attorney or duly authorized agent, within three years after the commis- sion of the depreciation or injury, to the United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs, or Indian agent or sub-agent within whose jurisdiction or charge the nation, tribe, or band is to which the offenders or depredators belong.
 2. The necessary documents and proofs must accompany the applica- tion of the claimant, his attorney or agent, and should be in legal form and consist
 First. the sworn declaration of the claimant, setting forth when and where the depreciation was committed, and by what Indians, their tribe or nation being named; describing fully the property stolen or destroyed, and giving the quantity of each article or number, condition or quality thereof, and the just value of each article or piece of property at the time the same was so taken or destroyed. Should the have been committed while the claimant was in the Indian country, he must state whether he was lawfully there, either having a license to trade with the Indians, passport. or permit from the prop CT Indian authorities, or was en route through said country to a place of ultimate destination at some point within the limits of any State or Ter ritory, not included within the limits of the reservation for any nation or tribe of Indians set apart by treaty provision, or by Executive order; and he in such declaration, must further state whether any of the property so stolen or destroyed has subsequently, been recovered by or for him, the claimant; and whether he claimant has at any time, received | part compensation therefor, and if so now much, when and from what | source; and further, that the claimant | las in no way endeavored to obtain private satisfaction CT revenge.
 Second. Of dispositions of two or nore persons having personal cogniz- .nce of the facts or any of them, as embraced in the declaration of the claimant, which dispositions must set ;orth the means of knowledge which leponents have as to the fact of the depreciation, when, where, by what Indians, and under what circumstan- ;es the depreciation was committed, what the property consisted that was 70 taken or destroyed by the Indians, describing it as fully as practicable, nd stating the value thereof. If the leponents or any of them were at the ime of the depreciation in the employ nent of the claimant it must be so tated, and in what capacity. In ad- lition to the foregoing the claimant