Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-26
INDIAN SERVICE APPRoPR1A.
TIONS.

ment containing twenty-four printed pages,
in which the allowance for each agency ia
set apart in separate items. The fund set
apart for salaries of Indian agents amounts
to 100000. The pay Of agents per annum
in Dakota and along the Missouri river is as
follows:
At Yankton agency. $1,000; Grow Creek
agency, S1.40O; Standing Rock agency,
$l,700; Cheyenne River agency, $500
Fort Berthold agency, 81, 800; sisseton sgen.
cy, $500 Lower Brule agency, $1,000:
Red Cloud agency, 1900; Spotted TAN
agency, $4,000; Santee agency, $1,000.
The appropriation for the pay of inter.
prefers for the agencies above named ia
$500 each per annum, or $500 in the ag-
gregate.
The bill further provides as follows for
the payment of annuities, subsistence, ETC.,
to the various tribes of the Sioux nation:
For tenth Of thirty installments, to pur-
chase clothing for males over fourteen years
of age, for flannel, hose, and calico, aud do
mestics required for females over twelve
years of age, and for such flannel and cotton
goods as may be needed to make suits for
boys and girls, per tenth article of treaty of
April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and
sixty. eight, one hundred and thirty thous-
and dollars !; =
For tenth of thirty installments, to pur.
chase such articles as may be considered
proper by the secretary Of the interior, for
persons roaming; and for tenth Of thirty in
stallments, to purchase such articles as may
be considered proper by the secretary of the
interior, for persons engaged in agriculture,
two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
For pay Of physician, five teachers, one
carpenter, one miller, one engineer, one far
mer. and nj blacksmith, per thirteenth ar
ticle of same treaty, ten thousand four hun
dred dollars;
For pay of additional employees at the sew
eral agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska and
Dakota, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For industrial schools at the Santee Sioux
and Grow Creek agencies, three thousand
dollars each, six thousand dollars;
For subsistence of the Sioux and for pur-
poses of their civilization, as per agreement
ratified by act of congress approved Febru-
ary twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
seventy seven, including the cost of trans.
porting supplies for the Red Cloud and Spot
ted Tail Sioux Indians from the Missouri
river and Sidney. Nebraska, or Cheyenne,
Wyoming, one million and ninety.fve thou.
sand dollars
Pay Of matron of at santee agency, five
hundred dollars
iron, steel, and other material, per eighth
in all, one million four hundred and eighty.
three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the Sisseton, and Wahpeton, and San
tee Sioux Of Lake Traverse and DEVILS
Lake:
For seventh of ten installments of the sum
of eight hundred thousand dollars, named
in a certain agreement confirmed BY act ap.
proved June twenty-second, eighteen hun
dred and seventy.four, made by the commits
sioners appointed by the secretary Of the in.
terror, under the provisions of the act of
June seventh, eighteen hundred and seven.
with the Sisseton and Wahpeton
bands Of Sioux indiana, for the %relinquish.
ment by said Indians Of their claim to. or
interest in, the lands described in the second
article of the treaty made with them Feb
ruary nineteenth, eighteen hundred and
the same to be expended, under
the directioa of the president, for the bene-
st of said Indians, in the manner prescribed
in said treaty of eighteen hundred and six
as amended by the senate, said
amendment as amended having been ratified
BY the Indians. ~ provided BY act of Feb
ruary fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-three, eighty thousand dollars,
For the Yankton Sioux:
Fol hrst OF ten installments, third series,
70 be paid to them or expended for their
benefit, per fourth article Of treaty Of April