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Submissions from 1878 1878

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of November 13, 1877, information in relation to the cause and probable cost of the late Nez Perces War.

Submissions from 1879 1879

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 8, 1879, information respecting an arrangement made between the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Lawrence University, of Appleton, Wis., for the education of Indian children

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, a report embodying a statement of the property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the Department of the Interior.

Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a Senate resolution of June 4, 1879, accompanying information in relation to the arrest and removal of J. M. Bell and other Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee Nation

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Commanding General, Department of the Missouri, inclosing a report of C. A. H. McCauley, Third Cavalry, of his explorations in and about Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the acting Chief of Engineers, upon a provision in the Sundry Civil Bill, approved March 3, 1879, discontinuing the geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian under the War Department after June 30, 1879

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information in regard to arrest and removal of J. M. Bell and other Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee Nation, &c

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter of Colonel John Gibbon, U. S. A., relating to compensation of citizen volunteers who participated in the battle of Big Hole, Montana.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, in regard to operations to control squatters in the Indian Territory

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 14, 1879, information in relation to lands in the Indian Territory acquired by the Treaties of 1866

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 7, 1879, information in relation to an alleged occupation of a portion of the Indian Territory by white settlers

Message from the President of the United States, communicating the estimates of the appropriations needed, which were sent to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury at the opening of the last session

Message from the President of the United States, communicating the report of the commission appointed under the provisions of the act approved May 3, 1878, entitled "An act authorizing the President of the United States to make certain negotiations with the Ute Indians in the State of Colorado"

Report upon the customs district, public service, and resources of Alaska Territory.

Submissions from 1880 1880

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1879, information in relation to the number of mining camps located on the Ute Indian Reservation in Colorado.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1879, correspondence concerning the Ute Indians in Colorado.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with section 194 of the revised statutes of the United States, a statement of the clerks and others employed in the several bureaus of the department during the year 1879, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting information, in response to Senate resolution of April 1, 1880, relative to affidavits field in that department by or on behalf of the settlers on the Uncompahgre Park in Colorado; also letter from Hon. C. H. McIntyre on the subject, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the Senate relative to the rejection of certain bids for wagons for the Indian Service, a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and accompanying correspondence.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 22, 1880, certain information relative to contracts for Indian supplies, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 11, exemplifications of land patents issued to Indian tribes in Indian Territory, and copies of applications of railway corporations and action thereon.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated April 15, 1880, relative to erroneous surveys in the former Sioux Indian Reservation west of Big Stone Lake, in Dakota, submitting estimate for re-survey, and recommending favorable consideration of the Senate.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the report and opinion of the Surveyor-General of Arizona Territory, together with a duly authenticated copy of the title papers and testimony in the matter of the private land claim, No. 7, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 26, 1880, information in regard to the present condition of affairs in Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of March 9, 1880, the report of Captain Bailey upon the number, occupation, and condition of the people of Alaska; the report of the Supervising Surgeon-General Marine Hospital Service on the same subject; also report of Special Agent Otis upon the illicit traffic in rum and fire-arms.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, adopted on the 5th instant, copies of reports of Capt. John W. White, of the United States Revenue Service, concerning matters connected with Alaska Territory, and also copies of all material papers relating to the transfer of the jurisdiction over the territory from the War Department to the Treasury, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, a copy of the report of Henry C. De Ahna, formerly Collector of Customs at Sitka, Alaska, in regard to the resources, condition, and affairs of the Territory of Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 28, 1879, a tabulated statement showing the annual amount paid under what is known as permanent annual appropriations from 1865 to 1879, inclusive, &c

Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation of $5,000 for the completion of the road from Fort Bridger to Uintah Agency.

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the completion of Fort Assinaboine, Montana Territory, and the construction of a new post near Wood Mountain in that territory

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication presenting the importance of geographical and topographical surveys of the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi River, together with an estimate of an appropriation therefor.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting correspondence relative to an appropriation for the establishment of a military post for the protection of the settlements of Judith Basin and the Muscleshell, Montana Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieut. Thomas H. Bradley, examiner of state claims, on the claims of states against the United States, in response to an inquiry from the Committee on Claims, United States Senate

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 3, 1879, information in relation to payments made to the Ute Indians in accordance with the fourth article of an agreement with said Indians made September 3, 1873.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Interior containing an agreement signed by the chiefs and headmen of the Ute Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Interior containing an agreement signed by the chiefs and headmen of the Ute Indians

Submissions from 1881 1881

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to Senate resolution of the 12th of March last calling for information concerning the alleged killing by soldiers, in the office of the agent of the Poncas, in the Indian Territory, of Big Snake, a chief man of the Poncas, and what action, if any, in reference to the matter, the department had taken, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying statement showing disposition of clothing purchased from appropriation, not specifically appropriated for under treaties with various tribes

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a communication dated 14th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying draft of a bill to accept and ratify an agreement with the Crow Indians for sale of western portion of their reservation in Montana Territory

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting duplicate copies of two letters received by the Indian Office from Agents Miles and Hunt, of the Indian Territory, relating to the deficiency estimate transmitted on the 21st ultimo

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of the 15th instant, a copy of the report of the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., upon the condition of education in Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, a full and complete inventory of all property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the department and under its charge

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, a list showing the names of all officers, clerks, and other employes borne upon the rolls of the department.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with the requirement of section 8 of the Act of 22d July, 1854 (10 Stat., 308), the plats and papers in the following private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico, viz: No. 112, Mesilla and Arroyo Seco; No. 114, Santa Barbara; No. 118, Ojo de Borrega; No. 119, San Miguel del Bado

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of January 27, 1881, copy of report of Ute Commission, and copies of all correspondence between this department and the Ute Commission, and also the Governor of Colorado, concerning the same since June 15, 1880

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 21st ultimo, copies of all papers in his office relative to the settlement of the accounts of Dexter E. Clapp, late agent of the Crow Indians, Montana Territory

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a report of Brig. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, dated September 1881, of an inspection of Forts Cour d'Alene and Colville, and Camp Spokane, Washington Territory, with the indorsement of the General of the Army, in which he recommends an appropriation of $40,000 for a permanent military post in Northern Washington Territory, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of papers relative to the abandonment of Camp Sheridan, Nebr., ordered to take effect May 1, 1881, together with special report as to the number and condition of buildings, &c., at that post

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, in reference to the applications of the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central, and the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Companies, for a right of way across the lands of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the commission appointed December 18, 1880, to ascertain the fact in regard to the removal of the Ponca Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 21, 1879, reports from the Secretaries of the Interior and War, relative to expenses in certain Indian wars

Submissions from 1882 1882

Letter from the Attorney-General of the United States, transmitting a list embracing all the publications of that department, in compliance with Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, calling for same

Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 21, 1882, information relating to the postal routes in Dakota, from Fort Niobrara to Rapid City, and from Chamberlain to said Rapid City

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from Attorney-General and report of Commissioner of General Land Office, also report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of January 10, 1882, calling for information touching the opening for settlement under the pre-emption laws of the United States of part of the Ute Reservation in Colorado

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication, with accompanying papers, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of January 24, 1882, calling for information relating to amounts expended for the education of Indian children, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of report, dated 15th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying papers, in response to Senate resolution of March 13, 1882, "requesting list of all Indian reservations upon which troops are stationed; also such information as may be on file in that department touching the destruction and inordinate consumption of timber by the troops upon such reservations," &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, a full and complete inventory of all property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the Interior Department and under its charge

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, the report and opinion of the U. S. Surveyor-General of the Territory of Arizona, on private land claim No. 13, known as "Rancho de Otero and House Lot.".

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 7, 1882, copy of report of the acting Commissioner of the General Land Office of April 25, 1881, in reference to the right of occupation by settlers of any portion of the Indian Territory

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting information, with report dated the 4th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of the 26th ultimo, calling for the action taken by that department to ascertain the damages resulting from the raid of Northern Cheyenne Indians through the western portion of the Indian Territory and the States of Kansas and Nebraska in 1878

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 15, 1882, a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 14th instant, submitting report dated the 12th instant, and its accompanying documents, on the claims of the Old Settler Cherokees, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 26, 1882, a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of the 9th instant, relating to the amount of indebtedness by the Kansas tribe of Indians to individuals represented by certificates issued by any officer of the government, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 6, 1882, the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office upon the survey of the United States and Texas Boundary Commission.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 3, 1882, a detailed statement of account showing the amounts received as Indian civilization fund, the source from whence derived, and the disbursements, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, a list of all books, reports, documents, and pamphlets printed or published by this department from 1789 to 1881

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 22d instant, a statement of the sums of money paid to the Ponca Indians since 1871, and under what treaty obligation

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to Section 8 of the Act of July 22, 1854, extended by the Sundry Civil Act of July 15, 1870, certain papers relating to the private land claim in the Territory of Arizona known as El Sopori

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1882, a letter from the Chief of Engineers of yesterday's date, and the accompanying copy of a report from Lieut. T. W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, embracing all the information in this department respecting the navigable waters of the Upper Columbia River and its tributaries, and of the country adjacent thereto

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, reports of the publications, &c., of the respective bureaus of the War Department from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1881.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the Adjutant-General, dated the 15th instant, inclosing copies of reports from the Commanding Generals of the divisions of the Missouri and the Pacific, giving the desired information called for in Senate resolution of January 30, 1882, calling for the number of Indians held as prisoners, under orders from the War Department, &c

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements from the Quartermaster-General and others in reference to Senate resolution of January 24, 1882, calling for information in relation to the cost to the government of the Indian wars during each of the past ten years, &c

Message from the President of the United States, recommending a renewal of the appropriation of ten thousand dollars heretofore made for defraying the expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 6th instant, with accompanying papers from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and draft of a bill to amend section 2135 revised statutes

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior in relation to proposed legislation for the sale of the Otoe and Missouria Indian Reservation in the States of Nebraska and Kansas.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 23d instant, with accompanying papers, in response to Senate resolution of the 30th ultimo, calling for certain information in relation to the Malheur Indian Reservation in the State of Oregon

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, of the 24th instant, with accompanying papers, submitting the draft of a proposed clause for insertion in one of the pending appropriation bills, to provide for the payment of certain legal services rendered to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, in 1881 amounting to $150

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, of the 27th ultimo, with accompanying papers, on the subject of the confirmation of the homestead entries of certain lands in the Marquette District, Michigan, made by Hugh Foster and John Waishkey, Jr.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relating to an agreement made by the Pah-Ute Indians, and granting a right of way to the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company through the Walker River Reservation, in Nevada.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with accompanying papers, in reference to the bill of Choctaw Council, approved November 10, 1881, granting a right of way through the Choctaw Nation to the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company, &c.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with a draft of a bill to accept and ratify an agreement with the Crow Indians for the sale of a portion of their reservation in the Territory of Montana required for the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill authorizing the sale of certain pine timber cut upon the Menomonee Reservation in Wisconsin, with accompanying papers

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill, in reference to the settlement of the estates of deceased Kickapoo Indians in the State of Kansas.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill to appropriate money to meet deficiency in the Indian service for the year ending June 30, 1882

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of bill and accompanying papers, in reference to the proposition of the Creek Nation of Indians for the cession of certain of their lands in the Indian Territory occupied by the Seminole Indians.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of bill for the per capita distribution of the sum of two thousand dollars to the band of Eastern Shawnee Indians at Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior with draft of bill providing for the improvement of the condition of Indians occupying reservations

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with the draft of a bill to prevent timber depredations on Indian reservations

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, dated the 9th instant, and accompanying copy of a telegram from the general commanding the Military Division of the Pacific and Department of California, relative to the construction of additional quarters, &c., within the limits of the Military Department of Arizona

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, of the 6th instant, together with plans and estimates for barracks and quarters in the Military Division of the Pacific and at Fort Monroe, Virginia

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, relating to abandoned military reservations, and renewing his former recommendation for legislation which will provide for the disposal of such reservations no longer needed.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, transmitting plans and estimates for the erection of a large military post at Fort Selden, New Mexico

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior with draft of a bill to create the office of Medical Inspector for the United States Indian Service

Reports of Captain L. A. Beardslee, U. S. Navy, relative to affairs in Alaska, and the operations of the U. S. S. Jamestown under his command, while in the waters of that territory.

Submissions from 1883 1883

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication of the 16th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, recommending an appropriation of $14,100 for the purchase of stock-cattle, &c., for the bands of Sioux Indians of Red Cloud and Red Leaf

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, respecting the deficiency in the appropriation for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Sioux Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, calling attention to the necessity of an immediate appropriation to enable the fulfillment of article 10 of the Treaty of April 29, 1868 (15 Stat., 635), with the Sioux Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter of the 16th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, respecting the large sums annually expended for attorneys' fees by different Indian tribes, recommending the appointment of an officer for that purpose

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, a full and complete inventory of all property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by this department and under its charge

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 5, 1883, a report concerning depredations on the public timber in the Territory of Montana

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