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Submissions from 1876 1876

Petition of Margaret E. West, for a pension

Preamble and resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, opposing a reduction of the Army, and urging that troops be placed on the western frontier for the better protection of citizens from Indian depredations.

Resolution and memorial of the constitutional convention of the State of Texas, asking the attention of Congress to the condition of Texas frontiers, and praying compensation for losses sustained by the people of Texas, by reason of the incursion of Indians and Mexicans, and re-imbursement for sums of money expended by that state in defending the frontier, &c

Resolution of the Legislature of California, relative to the transfer of Indian Affairs to War Department

Statement showing amount of expenditures from appropriation for fulfilling treaty with Sioux, different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1876.

Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period.

Testimony taken before the Committee on Indian Affairs concerning the management of the Indian Department

Submissions from 1877 1877

Memorial of the Choctaw Nation, asking for the settlement of its claim arising under the Treaty of 1855

Petition of B. F. Overton, Governor, and Thomas W. Johnson and John E. Anderson, Commissioners, on behalf of the Chickasaw Nation, to the Congress of the United States

Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, (44th Congress, 2d session,) on the bill (H. R. 3922) to provide for the organization of the Indian Territory

Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-fifth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Testimony taken by the Committee on Military Affairs in relation to the Texas border troubles.

Submissions from 1878 1878

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period.

Arrears due Chickasaw Nation. (To accompany report 354.) Letters from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Hons. A. M. Scales and T. M. Gunter. In relation to arrears due Chickasaw Nation.

Delegate in Congress from the Indian Territory. Objections of the Indian delegations to the bill H. R. 2687, and kindred measures in the Congress of the United States, providing for a delegate in Congress from the Indian Territory

Indians in Michigan and Indiana. (To accompany bill H. R. 2283.) Memorial of certain Indians residing in Michigan and Indiana, for relief

Petition of the delegates of the Creek Nation, with reference to the awards made to those Creeks who enlisted in the Federal Army, loyal refugees and freedmen, asking early action of Congress upon that subject.

Removal of certain tribes of Indians. (To accompany bill H. R. 5002.) Letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the removal of certain Indians in the states of Oregon, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and the territories of Washington and Dakota.

Surveys of the Territories. Letter from the acting President of the National Academy of Sciences transmitting a report on the surveys of the territories

Transfer of Indian Bureau. Concurrent resolutions of the Legislature of California, favoring the transfer of Indian Affairs to the War Department

Transfer of Indians from civil to military management. Memorial of the delegations of the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, of the Indian Territory, to the Congress of the United States, in opposition to the transfer of the Indians from civil to military management, as contemplated in bill H. R. 959 and others of like import now pending in Congress

Wisconsin land-claim. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. T. C. Pound, House of Representatives, transmitting certain papers relative to the claim of the State of Wisconsin for certain lands included in Indian reservations, and recommending legislation thereon.

Submissions from 1879 1879

Amendment of rules

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress. II. Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the third session of the Forty fifth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period.

Eastern band of Cherokees. Remonstrance of the principal chief and delegates of the Cherokee Nation of Indians against the passage of any bill to allow the Eastern band of Cherokees to sue the Cherokee Nation

Protest of Indian delegates against organization of territorial government over the Indian country. Protest of the delegates from the Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw Nations, against the organization of a United States territorial government over the Indian Territory

Submissions from 1880 1880

Appropriations, new offices, etc.

Ethnology of North American Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution, recommending an appropriation for continuing the ethnologic researches among the North American Indians.

Laws of the United States of a local or temporary character, and exhibiting the entire legislation of Congress upon which the public land titles in each state and territory have depended. December 1, 1880. Embracing, also, a digest of all Indian treaties affecting the titles to public lands; an abstract of the authority for, and the boundaries of, the existing military reservations; and a table of judicial and executive decisions affecting the various subjects arising under the public land system

Laws of the United States of a local or temporary character, and exhibiting the entire legislation of Congress upon which the public land titles in each state and territory have depended. December 1, 1880. Embracing, also, a digest of all Indian treaties affecting the titles to public lands; an abstract of the authority for, and the boundaries of, the existing military reservations; and a table of judicial and executive decisions affecting the various subjects arising under the public land system

Testimony in relation to the Ute Indian outbreak, taken by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives.

The existing laws of the United States of a general and permanent character, and relating to the survey and disposition of the public domain, December 1, 1880, embracing references to previous legislation, and citations of decisions from the federal and the state courts and from the executive officers of the United States

Submissions from 1881 1881

Appropriations, new offices, etc

Department of the Interior. U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. J. W. Powell in charge. Contributions to North American Ethnology. Volume V

Land grants to railroads. Letter from the auditor of railroad accounts, relative to land grants made by the United States to aid in the construction of the Pacific railroads

Stockbridge and Munsee Indians of Wisconsin. Letter from the acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives, in relation to the bill of the House of Representatives for the relief of the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians, in the State of Wisconsin

The public domain. Its history, with statistics, with references to the national domain, colonization, acquirement of territory, the survey, administration and several methods of sale and disposition of the public domain of the United States. With sketch of legislative history of the land states and territories, and references to the land system of the colonies, and also that of several foreign governments.

Submissions from 1882 1882

Digested summary and alphabetical list of private claims presented to the House of Representatives from the Forty-second to the Forty-sixth Congress, inclusive; exhibiting the action of Congress on each claim, with references to the journals, reports, bills, etc., elucidating its progress

Judgments of Court of Claims. Statement of all judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ending December 3, 1881. Transmitted in pursuance of section 1057 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Publication and distribution of public documents. Communication from J. G. Ames, Superintendent of Documents, Department of the Interior, A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress, and Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to the publication and distribution of public documents.

Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1880-'81.

Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress. II. Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Submissions from 1883 1883

Allotment of lands in severalty among Indian tribes. Memorial of the Creek Nation on the subject of lands in severalty among the several Indian tribes, with accompanying papers.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1882

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress. II. Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period.

Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. J. W. Powell Director. Mineral resources of the United States

Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1882-'83.

Judgments of the Court of Claims. Letter from the Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a statement of judgments rendered for the year ended December 3, 1882.

Official register of the United States, containing a list officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1883; together with a list of ships and vessels belonging to the United States. Volume I

Statistics of the population of the United States at the tenth census (June 1, 1880), embracing extended tables of the population of states, counties, and minor civil divisions, with distinction of race, sex, age, nativity, and occupations; together with summary tables, derived from other census reports, relating to newspapers and periodicals; public schools and illiteracy; the dependent, defective, and delinquent classes, etc.

Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1881-'82

Submissions from 1884 1884

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1883

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-eighth Congress. II. Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Education of Indians. Concurrent resolution adopted by the Legislature of New York relative to the education of Indians

Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1883-'84.

Report of the cruise of the Revenue Marine steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the year 1884

Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U. S. Navy, commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884.

United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883

Submissions from 1885 1885

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1885.

Department of the Interior monographs of the United States Geological Survey.

Department of the Interior. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey.

Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey J. W. Powell, Director Mineral Resources of the United States. Calendar years 1883 and 1884

Digest of the official opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States, comprising all of the published opinions contained in volumes I. to XVI. inclusive, and embracing the period from 1789 to 1881

Official Register of the United States, containing a list of officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1885

Official Register of the United States, containing a list of officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1885; together with a list of ships and vessels belonging to the United States

Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-eighth Congress. II. Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period.

Submissions from 1886 1886

Annual report of Smithsonian Institution, 1886, pt. 1

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1885

Appropriation for Indians.

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing I -- Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress. II -- Offices created and the salaries thereof. III -- The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period.

California Indian-War claims.

Cherokee Indians.

Expenditures for Indians and Yellowstone Park.

Indian outrages in New Mexico and Arizona

Mineral resources of the United States

Mineral resources of the United States.

Permanent and indefinite appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning bill H. R. 3271, to repeal certain laws relating to permanent and indefinite appropriations

School facilities for the Sioux Indians

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1885-'86

Submissions from 1887 1887

Annual report of Smithsonian Institution, 1886, pt. 2: National Museum

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1887

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1887

Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Vol. VI, for 1886.

Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey No. 32.

Committee on Indian depredation claims

Department of the Interior. Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey Vol. VI.

Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1886-'87.

Firing on persons in Indian Territory.

Official Register of the United States, containing a list of the officers and employes in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service on the first of July, 1887; together with a list of vessels belonging to the United States

Official Register of the United States, containing a list of the officers and employes in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service on the first of July, 1887; together with a list of vessels belonging to the United States

Public exhibitions by wild Indians.

Rule XI. -- powers and duties of committees

Statements showing I. -- Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress. II. -- Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. -- The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Submissions from 1888 1888

Alaska Commercial Company

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1888.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations; expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1888

Bulletins of the U.S. Geological Survey, Volume 7. Bulletins 42-46

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