New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-07
GENERAL NATURE-No. GIL

dian department, and for fulfilling treaty
gtipulations with various Indian tribes,
for the year ending June thirty, eighteen
hundred and seventy-thTee and tor other
purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Penresentativcs. Of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and they are hereby,
appropriated, out Of any money IN the
treasury not otherwise appropriately tor
the purpose Of paying the current and con
fingent expresses Of the indian department,
and fulfilling treaty stipulati0ns with the
various Indian tribes:
For pay Of eight superintendent Of IN
dian affairs, namely: Two superntendents
for the tribes east Of the Rocky mountains;
one for Oregon; one Tor the Territory OF
Washington one for the Territory OF New
Mexico; one for California; one for the
Territory of Arizona; and one for the Ter
ritory Of Montana, nineteen thousand one
hundred dollars.
For pay of sixty,eight agents OF Indian
affairs, viz:
Springs, klamath, Grand Ronde, Suetz ana
Umatilla, agencies;
Three for the tribes in Washington Terri
tory, viz: Neah Bey, Yakama, and S. ho-
komish agencies;
Three Tor the tribes in California, viz;
Hoopa Valley, Round Valley, and Tule
River agencies
Two for the tribes In Nevada, viz: Pi-Ute
and Walker River, and Pyramid Lake
Two for the tribes in Idaho, viz; Nez
Perez and Fort Hall agencies
-Four for the tribes in Montana, viz: Flat
Heads, Black Feet Crow, and Milk River
agencies;
Nine for the tribes in Dakota, viz: Whet-
stone, Yankton, Ponca, Upper Missouri,
Grand River, Cheyenne River, Fort
Bertbold SissetOn, and Devils Lake agen-
ciesi
Two for the tribes in Wyoming, viz: Red
Cloud, Shoshone, and Bannock agencies;
One for the tribes in Utah, viz; Uintah
Valley agency;
six for the tribes in New Mexico, viz:
AIbiquin, Navajo, CmmerOn, Mesealero,
Apache, Southern Apache and Pueblo
agencies;
Two for the tribes in Colorado, viz: Los
PinOs and White river agencies;
Six for the tribes in Nebraska, viz: Great
Nemaha, Omaha, Winnebago, Pawnee,
Otoe and Santee agencies;
Three for the tribes in Kansas viz; POtta-
watomie, Kaw or Kansas and Kickap0o
agencies;
viz: Sac and Fox, Quapaw, Ne0shO, Kiowa
and Comanche, Upper Arkansas, Wichita,
Cherokee Creek, Choctaw and CbickasaW
and Seminole agencies;
One for the tribes in Minnesota, viz: Chip
pewa agency;
One for the tribes in Iowa, viz: Sac and
Fox of Iowa agency;
Two for the tribes in Wisconsin, viz:
Green Bay and LaPonte agencies;
One for the tribes in Michigan, viz: Mack
mac agency;
One for tho New York Indians, viz: New
York agency;
Four for the tribes in Arizona, viz: Pap |
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and Moguis Pueblo agencies, one hundred |
and two thousand dollars; provided that it |
shall be the duty of the President to dis |
pense with the services of such Indian /
agents and superintendent herein men
toned as may be practicable; and where it |
is practicable he shall require the same |
person to perform the duties Of two agen-
cies or superintendenCies for one salary.
For pay of special agent for the Goship |
Western and Northwestern bands of ShO-
Bhones, in Western Utah and Eastern Ne
vada, one thousand i've hundred dollars.
For three sub-agents, one tor the tribes in
Oregon, viz: Alesea sub-ageDcy; and Two
for the tribes in Washington Territory, viz:
Tulalip and Quinaielt subagences, three
thousand dollars
For pay Of clerk to superintendent for
California one thousand eight hundredd0l.
lars.
For temporary clerks to slperintendents,
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
the tribes else where at four hundred dollars
each; three for the Indian service in Utah,
ut five hundred dollars each; one tor the
Shoshones and one for the Utahs, at one
thousand dollars each; one for the Sisseton
and Wahpeton bands of Sioux, four hun
dred dollars one for the Sacs and Foxes of
the Mississippi, now in Tama county, Iowa,
four hundred dollars; nine for the Indian
service in the Territories of Arizona, Colo
RADIO, 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 five thousands dollars
For presents to and provisions for Indians,
ten thousand dollars.
For actual expenses incurred, and that ,
may hereafter be incurred, by officers of
the Indian department., in the rescue of
prisoners from Indian tribes and returning
them to their homes, and for expenses incl
dent to the arrest and confinement within ,
the territory of the United States, by order
of such officers, of persons charged with
crimes against Indians, five thousand dol
lars.
For contingencies. including travelling,
current and contingent expen-
SEES of superintendent and agents, and of
their offices, fifty thousand dollars.
APACHEs, KIowAs AND coNIANCHEs.
For fifth OF thirty instaIlments as pro-
vided to be expended under the tenth arti-
Gle treaty of October twenty-tirst, eighteen {
hundred and sixty-seven, concluded at Med {
cine Lodge Creek, in Kansas, with the 6
kiowas and COmanChes, and under the third {
article treaty of same date with the Apaches,
thirty thousand dollars. s
for purchase of clothing, as provided in {
same treaties, twenty-six thousand dollars. t
For pay OF carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, t
miller and engineer, five thousand two hun i
ired dollars. $
For pay Of, physician and teacher, two t
five hundred dollars
For transportation of goods, five thou. S
sand dollars Ii
APACHEs. d
For this amount, to subsist aud properly Q
are for the Apache Indians in Arizona and a
New Mexico, who have been or may be col N
ected on reservations in New Mexico and Il
Arizona, two hundred and fifty thousand 81
lollars; provided, that this appropriation
hall be expended only in behalf OF those r
Indians who go and remain upon said D
reservations and refrain from hostiities Z
>RAPAHoEs, cHEYENNEs, APACHEs, KIowAs, e
CoNANeHEs AND wTcHITAs. a
For subsistence Of the Arapahoes, Chey- d
nnes, Apache, Kiowas and Comanche In s.
lians and Wichita Indians Eand transporta-
ion OF the same), ,wlo have been collected o.
Ipon the reservations set apart for their 81