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Submissions from 1873

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a special estimate of appropriations required to purchase subsistence for Indian tribes in the Indian Territory.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the draught of a bill for the civilization of Indians of the Central Superintendency.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to an estimate of an appropriation required to complete the service of fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, and prior years.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the claim against the government known as the Choctaw claim.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement showing the balances of appropriations unexpended on June 30, 1872, the amount appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, &c

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to an appropriation for the erection of two posts along the Northern Pacific Railroad.

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of First Lieutenant R. H. Pratt, Tenth Cavalry

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of the Territory of Utah for Indian war expenses of the years 1865, 1866, and 1867

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the Montana Indian War claims of 1867

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Message of the President of the United States, with the accompanying documents, transmitted to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress, 1873

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Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1873.

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Report of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, 1873.

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Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress, 1873.

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Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress : Annual report of Commissioner of Education, 1873

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Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1873.

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Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress, 1873

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Statistics of mines and mining in the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains; being the fifth annual report of Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics

Submissions from 1874

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An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871.

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Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1874.

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Draught of a bill transmitted by the Secretary of the Interior, to amend an act to restore a part of the Round Valley Indian Reservation, in California, to the public lands and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1873

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Letter from acting Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of June 4, 1874, in relation to the Hot Springs, Arkansas

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Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, in relation to a treaty made with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians April 28, 1866

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Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, in relation to leasing or selling a portion of the Allegany Reservation, in the State of New York

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Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, in relation to the condition and wants of the Ute Indians of Utah; the Pai-Utes of Utah, Northern Arizona, Southern Nevada, and Southeastern California; the Go-si Utes of Utah and Nevada; the Northwestern Shoshones of Idaho and Utah, and the Western Shoshones of Nevada.

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Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill for regulating bids for Indian goods, &c

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Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico on land-grant, being private land-claim No. 87

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Letter from the Chief Clerk of the War Department, transmitting a report of Inspector-General James A. Hardie, U. S. A., upon the subject of the Dakota Indian waReport : Claim oflaims of 1862

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an agreement concluded November 7, 1873, with the Bannack and other Indians in Southern Idaho.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an agreement concluded with the Ute Indians in Colorado, September 13, 1873

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation to meet outstanding indebtedness of the Indian Service in California

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation to relieve the most pressing necessities of the Chippewa Indians attached to the Red Cliff and Bad River reservations, in Wisconsin

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation to subsist certain Kickapoo Indians during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recalling his report dated April 13 last, and the claims of Absentee Shawnee Indians, submitted therewith

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending an amendment to existing laws fixing a minimum penalty for their violation in selling liquor to Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending an amendment to the bill (H. R. 2343) providing for the appointment of a superintendent of education for the Indian Territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending that $3,000 be appropriated from the annuities to the Cheyennes for the support and education of the two white female children captured from said Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for subsisting the Red Cloud and Whetstone Indian agencies

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for the relief of the Flathead Indians in Montana

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for the relief of the Stockbridge and Munsee tribe of Indians in Wisconsin

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to aid the Indians in Shasta County, California

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an estimate of appropriation required for the settlement and support of the Kansas Indians on their new reservation in the Indian Territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to articles of convention concluded with the chiefs and headmen of the Shoshone and Bannock Indians, for relinquishment of a portion of their reservation in Wyoming Territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the lands of the North Carolina or eastern band of the Cherokee Indians, including a draught of a bill for the benefit of said Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the necessity that exists for some remedial legislation in behalf of Indian tribes or bands living upon reservations, who are, by a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, prevented from cutting and selling timber from the land occupied by them

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the removal of the Pawnee tribe of Indians from the State of Nebraska to the Indian Territory.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimate of appropriation for subdivision of White-Earth Reservation in Minnesota

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates to pay to Osage Indians interest on net avails of land sold under second article of treaty of September 29, 1865

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners in relation to an unexpended balance of appropriation made by the act of May 29, 1872, to pay the expenses of said board

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed statement of the amount of moneys expended and indebtedness incurred in connection with the Indian service from June 30, 1873, to Dec. 31, 1873, &c

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill and estimates of appropriation for the removal of the Kickapoo and other Indians from Texas and Mexico.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to use funds from the sale of lands for the benefit of the Osage Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill for the relief of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill making available certain unexpended balances of funds to be used for the civilization of the Pawnee Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill providing for the manner of paying annuities to Indian tribes under treaty stipulations.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to amend an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1849, and for other purposes.".

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to amend the acts of June 30, 1834, and February 13, 1862, to regulate trade and intercourse with various Indian tribes

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use certain unexpended balances of appropriations for the Indian service.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to enable Indians to become citizens of the United States

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to secure eighty acres of land in the White Earth Reservation of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota to the Episcopal Board of Missions

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a list of claims for depredations committed by Indians, &c., called for by House resolution of April 30, 1874

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an agreement with the Jiearilla Apache and certain Ute Indians in the Territory of New Mexico.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for collecting and subsisting the Apache Indians in Arizona for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for educational purposes for the Sac and Fox Indians of the Missouri.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for removing the Kickapoo and other roaming bands of Indians from Mexico to the Indian Territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the employment and support of a carpenter and a shoemaker at the Pawnee Agency in Nebraska during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the removal of the Kansas tribe of Indians to the Indian Territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, for the subsistence and support of northern Sioux Indians.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required to aid and instruct the Indians of the Central Superintendency

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required to defray the expenses incident to the survey of Indian reservations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required to defray the expenses of holding a general council of Cherokee, Creek, &c., as provided by treaties with said Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required to meet obligations existing under contracts for transportation to various Sioux agencies during the remainder of the fiscal year.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriations required to fulfill treaty obligations with the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation to indemnify the Pawnee Indians for 4,800 acres of land

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting An estimate of appropriation to pay for improvements by settlers on lands set apart for Makah Indians in Washington Territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation to remove the Modoc Indians from Oregon to the Indian Territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of funds required for the survey of Indian reservations during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of the special agent appointed to visit the Mission Indians of Southern California, and recommending an appropriation for the said Indians.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report showing the necessity that exists for legislation in behalf of the Mission Indians in California.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of indebtedness on account of collecting upon reservations and subsisting Apache Indians in Arizona and New Mexico prior to July 1, 1873

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimate of appropriation for collecting and subsisting the Apache Indians in Arizona and New Mexico.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimate of appropriation for the purchase from the Omaha Indians in Nebraska, of such quantity of land as may be required for the Winnebagoes in Wisconsin, &c

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimates of appropriations to aid Indians of Northern Superintendency in arts of civilized life.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with act of July, 1854, three reports of the Surveyor-General of the Territory of New Mexico on private lands in said territory

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with the act of July 22, 1854, a report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico on land-grant to Francisco Montes Vigil, being private land-claim No. 91

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with the act of July 22, 1854, the transcript of the land-grant to Antonio Chaves, being private land-claim reported as No. 79

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the claim of John Watts, for depredations committed by Comanche Indians

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Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting to the house a draught of a bill to establish a reservation for certain Indians in the Territory of Montana.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting certain information relative to the amounts of liabilities due from the Choclaw tribe of Indians to individuals.

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of the deficiencies in appropriations required to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874

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Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the bill (H. R. 1157) to provide for the payment of certain volunteer companies in the service of the United States in the war with Mexico and in the suppression of Indian disturbances in New Mexico

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Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the bill (H. R. 1590) to provide for the better protection of the frontier settlements of Texas against Indian and Mexican depredations

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Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the bill (H. R. 2298) to restore certain lands in California to homestead and pre-emption settlement

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the bill (H.R. 2854) for the location and construction of a military wagonroad from Green River City, Wyo., to the Yellowstone National Park, and to Fort Ellis, Mont.

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the establishment of a military post near Carlin, Nev.

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the Fort Kearney Military Reservation in Nebraska.

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the payment of the Montana Indian war claims of 1867.

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Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the purchase of military sites in Texas

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Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report and map of a reconnaissance in the Ute country, made in 1873 by Lieutenant E. H. Ruffner, of the Corps of Engineers.