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Submissions from 1897 1897

Appropriations, new offices, etc.

Certain California Indian war bonds.

Certain freedmen of the Choctaw Nation.

Chickasaw freedmen.

Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting communication from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, submitting agreement between the United States Commissioners to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes, and the Commissioners on the part of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians

Claim of Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux or Dakota Indians

Claims allowed by accounting officers.

Correspondence between the Cherokee Nation of Indians and the Dawes Commission.

Creek Tribe or Nation of Indians.

Disposition of lands of Choctaw Indians.

Fifty-fifth Congress. Official Congressional Directory, for the use of the United States Congress, prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing.

Important serial documents published by the government and how to find them.

Investigation of affairs at the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1897, letters and reports pertaining to the investigation of affairs at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation

Judgments in Indian depredation cases.

Klamath Boundary Commission.

Mississippi Choctaws.

Official Congressional Directory, for the use of the United States Congress.

Ogden Land Company.

Oil leases of the Seneca Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 29, 1897, report relative to the oil leases of the Seneca Indians

Payment to Cherokee freedmen. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 25, 1897, copies of all papers in relation to the payment and of the correspondence in connection therewith, showing the reason why the payment to the Cherokee freedmen was suspended.

Protest of Cherokee delegates

Report on introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, with illustrations.

Report regarding the receipt, distribution, and sale of public documents on behalf of the government by the Department of the Interior. 1895-96.

Revenue from rental of the seal islands of Alaska.

Statements of a delegation of Ogalalla Sioux before the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, April 29 and 30, 1897, relative to affairs at the Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak.

The Catawba Tribe of Indians.

The Lower Brule Indians.

To divide San Carlos Indian Reservation.

Uintah Indian Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of April 6, 1897, copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to negotiations with the Indian of the Uintah Reservation

Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate dated April 15, 1897, copy of a communication dated March 25, 1897, from Capt, F. D. Baldwin, U. S. A., Acting Agent, Kiowa Agency, and accompanying copy of the proceedings of a council held with the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians March 23 and 24, 1897, relative to the opening of their reservation, the allotment, and the original treaty

Submissions from 1898 1898

Agreement between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians.

Agreement with Crow, Flathead, and other Indians, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of an agreement concluded February 5, 1898, by the Commission appointed under the Act of June 10, 1896, to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other Indians for the surrender of any portion of their respective reservations, etc., and the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.

Agreement with the Creek and Seminole Nations

Agreement with the Five Civilized Tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of agreement between the United States Commissioners to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes and the Commissioners on the part of the Seminole Nation

Agreement with Uintah and White River Ute Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an agreement, dated the 8th instant, made by the Commission with the Uintahs and White River Ute Indians, by which they consent to sell, cede, and relinquish to the United States necessary lands for the use of such of the Uncompahgre Indians as may conclude to remove to the Uintah Indian Reservation

An Act for the Protection of the People of Indian Territory

Appropriations, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session.

Argument for free homes.

Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1897, copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs containing a full statement in regard to the Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen

Claim of the Medawakanton and Wahpakoota Bands of Sioux

Claim of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux

Communication from Josiah Gardner, delegate Choctaw and Chickasaw Union Party, transmitting statements and petitions from the Choctaw Indians relative to the bill

Confederated Otoe and Missouria Indians

Congressional Directory, 55th Congress, 3d session, 2 editions

Criminal and penal laws relating to Alaska, etc. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a special report made by the Commission to Revise and Codify the Criminal and Penal laws of the United States concerning the criminal and penal laws relating to the District of Alaska, etc.

Education in Alaska. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 19, 1898, copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Education relative to moneys heretofore appropriated by Congress for educational purposes in the Territory of Alaska and the manner in which such appropriations have been expended.

Education of Indian children in certain schools. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 2, 1898, a report prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs communicating certain information relating to the education of Indian children in the schools named in said resolution.

Fort Meade, S. Dak.

Free homesteads.

Indian appropriation bill.

Irrigation of certain parts of the Montezuma Valley. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the irrigation of that part of the Montezuma Valley lying within the boundaries of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation

Judgments rendered by Court of Claims in 1898

Killing of a woman in Oklahoma by Seminole Indians, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1898, copy of telegram and correspondence relative to the killing of a woman in Oklahoma Territory by Seminole Indians and the burning to death of two Seminole Indians by a mob in said territory.

Killing of Mrs. Laird by Seminole Indians. Letter from the Acting Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1898, copies of all papers and correspondence in Department of Justice relating to the killing of Mrs. Laird in the Seminole Nation, and the subsequent burning to death of M'Geisy and Sampson by a mob.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 17, 1898, a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims not heretofore reported to Congress.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 17, 1898, list of claims allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the several departments of the government to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for prior years.

Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 17, 1898, a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases since December 6, 1897.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 23, 1898, copy of a report touching the colony of natives on Annette Island, Alaska, prepared by Dr. William Duncan, together with copies of the files and records of the department relating to Annette Island and its occupancy by the Metlakahtla Indians and Alaskan natives.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of April 1, 1898, relative to the enforcement of the statute prohibiting the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors, etc., in the District of Alaska.

Letters from Cabinet officers relative to civil service rules. Letters from the Secretaries of the Treasury, of the Department of Agriculture, and of the Department of State, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1897, relative to changes or amendments to the present civil service rules.

Liabilities of registers and receivers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, for the consideration of the Senate, a communication from the Auditor for the Interior Department upon the subject of "Liabilities of registers and receivers on their bonds for the proceeds arising from the sales of Indian lands".

Map of Alaska showing known gold-bearing rocks with descriptive text containing sketches of the geography, geology, and gold deposits and routes to the gold fields.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the Secretary of the Interior, relative to resolution of the Senate of June 10, 1898, requesting the President to make such arrangements as may be necessary to secure the attendance at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, to be held at Omaha, Nebr., of representatives of certain Indian tribes which have emigrated from the territory now of the United States to Canada.

Mission Indians of California. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting draft of a bill to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California," together with copy of Indian office report relating to the same.

Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton.

Remonstrance against ratification of agreement with Seminole Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, a remonstrance against the ratification of an agreement between the Commissioners of the United States to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes and the Commissioners of the Seminole Nation, concluded on the 16th day of December, 1897.

Report on introduction of reindeer in Alaska, 1898

Santee Sioux of Nebraska and Flandreau Sioux of South Dakota. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report concerning the Santee Sioux of Nebraska and Flandreau Sioux of South Dakota, formerly known as a confederacy of the Medawakanton and Wahpakoota Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians.

Seneca Nation of New York Indians

Seneca Nation of New York Indians

Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report concerning the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, in conformity with the requirements of the Indian appropriation Act of June 7, 1897

Statement in the matter of the proposed amendment of the deficiency bill providing for carrying into effect the provisions of sections 26 and 27 of chapter 543, volume 26, of the United States Statutes at Large, relative to the provisions of the treaty entered into by the United States in 1851 with the Upper and Lower Bands of Sioux, Sisseton, Wahpeton, Medawakanton, and Wahpakoota Bands of Indians, providing for a money annuity.

Statements showing I. -- Appropriations made during the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress (pp. 5-465). II. -- New offices created and the salaries thereof (pp. 467-494). III. -- Offices the salaries of which have been omitted, with the amount of reduction (pp. 467-494). IV. -- Offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase (p. 495-498). V. -- Offices the salaries of which have been reduced, with the amount of such reduction (p. 495-498). VI. -- Amount of contracts authorized by appropriation acts in addition to appropriations made therein (p. 499). VII. -- References to indefinite appropriations (p. 500). VIII. -- Chronological history of the regular appropriation bills (p. 502).

Sundry civil appropriation bill.

Support of Indian contract schools

Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa Indians

Submissions from 1899 1899

Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and of Lake Superior

Conditions and cost of water storage for irrigation on the Gila River, Arizona

Hearing before the subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, on the amendment intended to be Proposed by Mr. Allen to the Indian appropriation bill in Regard to Payment to Osage Indians

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 27, 1898, a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also copies of two reports, and their inclosures, from United States Indian Inspector McConnell, of his investigation of the enrollment and payment of the Cherokee freedmen under the decree of the Court of Claims in the case of Moses Whitmire, trustee, v. the Cherokee Nation.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting several petitions from persons living in the Indian Territory requesting Congress to appropriate money to assist the "W. T. Whitaker Home" at Pryor Creek, in the Indian Territory.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of appropriation for buildings for additional schools at points on the Chippewa Reservations in Minnesota.

Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 25, 1899, a list of all judgments in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases rendered since the date of the last appropriation for the payment of such judgments, July 7, 1898.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 13, 1899, relative to condition and character of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation, and the assent of the Indians to the agreement for the allotment of lands and the ceding of unallotted lands.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 25, 1899, calling for number of adult male Indians belonging to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes in October, 1892

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of the agreement between the United States commissioners to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes and the commissioners on the part of the Cherokee Nation

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in response to resolution of the Senate of February 24, 1899, a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with accompanying papers, relative to Indian reservations in the State of Nevada.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 17, 1899, copies of the loyal Seminole rolls and the report of the commissioners appointed to investigate Seminole losses.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 25, 1899, information relative to the claim of the Old Settler Cherokees on account of interest alleged to be due them under the resolution of the Senate provided under the Treaty of 1846.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 6, 1899, copies of letters and accompanying inclosures from the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relating to the estimating of timber and the cutting of dead and fallen timber on the Chippewa Indian Reservations in the State of Minnesota.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a list of certain deficiencies in appropriations the amounts of which have been found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communication from the Attorney-General submitting estimate of deficiency in appropriations for salaries and expenses, United States courts, Indian Territory, and traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 25, 1899, a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims not heretofore reported to Congress.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 25, 1899, a schedule of claims allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department.

Maps and descriptions of routes of exploration in Alaska in 1898 with general information concerning the territory.

Memorial of the Indian Rights Association

Military post at Sheridan, Wyo.

Taxation of Indian allotments.

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