in the preceding section, except that instead of the issuing of the requisition the proper credits are entered to the account of the officer on the books of the division. In the exercise of its supervision over the employees of the Indian agencies, this division keeps a record of the entire force, notes all changes as they occur in the same, and conducts the correspondence of the office relative thereto.

III. THE LAND DIVISION.

1275. This division has charge of all questions arising out of or connected with the control and disposition of Indian lands, the establishment or enlargement of Indian reservations by Executive order. It is also the law division of the Indian office. It considers the tenures, rights, claims, and controversies growing out of Indian titles, and divers questions growing out of the occupancy of land and the conditions imposed by acts of Congress and treaty stipulations; all questions relating to the selection of reservations, changes of boundaries, increase or diminution of the areas thereof, discontinuance of the same, removal of Indians, and the consolidation of different bands or tribes. It is charged with the custody of duplicate plats and fieldnote records of the surveyed Indian reservations, and of complete tract books of all such surveyed lands; also of all records, files, diagrams, treaties, documents, and papers of every character relating to Indian lands, and with the labor of furnishing exemplifications of the same to proper applicants for legitimate purposes.

IV. THE CIVILIZATION DIVISION.

1276. This division has charge of matters pertaining to the advancement of Indians in civilized pursuits; their educational interests and sanitary condition; all matters of schools on Indian reservations, the funds for the support of

which are disbursed by direction of the Indian Office. It receives monthly reports from the numerous schools on these reservations, which are registered and tabulated in a book kept in the division for the purpose. It prepares and revises contracts for carrying on many of the schools, and transacts business relative thereto, involving correspondence with the officers of the bureau and with agents and religious bodies to whom the educational and religious work of the respective agencies is assigned relative to the appointment of proper teachers, the supplies of school books and furniture, and to the best means of promoting the efficiency of the schools.

1277. This division also receives monthly reports from agencies where physicians are employed, and takes proper action. It also concerns itself with the estimates from various agencies of the medicines required, and prepares all necessary blanks and papers for the annual purchase of medical supplies.

This division has charge also of matters pertaining to depredations committed by the Indians; to the appointment of and issue of instructions to superintendents, agents, and inspectors; the examination and approval of their official bonds; the record of the same, and to their transmissal to the Second Comptroller. It keeps a record of claims for depredations committed by Indians against whites and by whites against Indians, and transacts the business relative to such claims.

It has also supervision of trade with the Indians, and is charged with the issuing of licenses to Indian traders in accordance with the act of August 15, 1876, giving the Secretary of the Interior sole authority to issue such licenses. It keeps a record of such licenses and of the bonds executed by traders.

It conducts the correspondence of the office relative to

the conduct of the Indians, their welfare and progress; in regard to the interferences by white men, or to the violations of the non-intercourse laws; to the removal and punishment of intruders; the discipline of refractory Indians; the establishment of new agencies; the removal of Indians, and to investigations involving charges against Indian agents.

V. THE DIVISION OF RECORDS AND FILES.

1278. This division has custody of the records and files of the office, excepting those pertaining to the Land Division thereof. The records consist of yearly report books; yearly "letter books," in which are recorded all outgoing correspondence; a register of letters received; a record of claims and contracts; a yearly abstract of letters sent. The files of the office are appropriately arranged by names of agencies, superintendents, and localities, by dates; and these file-marks agree in every particular with the registers kept in this division.

gent expenses of the department; for annual repairs of the United States Capitol and the improvement of the Capitol grounds; for lighting the Capitol and grounds; and for the expenses of the Freedmen's Hospital and the Smithsonian Institution.

1171. Besides the disbursement of the appropriations made for this department, this division prepares for the signature of the Secretary of the Interior all requisitions upon the Secretary of the Treasury for moneys to pay army and navy pensions; to support and maintain the various tribes of Indians in the United States; to pay Indian agents, surveyors-general, registers and receivers of the public lands and the contingent expenses of their offices; and to pay for the surveying of the public lands. It also prepares the requisitions on account of the Government Hospital for the Insane, of the Columbia Hospital for Women, Children's Hospital, Soldiers and Sailors' National Orphans' Home, and the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, all beneficiaries of the United States located in Washington.

1172. This division also prepares the estimates of appropriations required to be made by Congress annually for the several bureaus of the department, for the payment of army and navy pensions, and for the purchase of Indian supplies.

III. THE DIVISION OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.

1173. This division is charged with the examination of applications made by Indian agents for permission to purchase supplies for Indians, the examination of contracts entered into for supplies, transportation, &c., and the examination of deeds made to the Indians for lands. It also examines into claims made on account of depredations committed by the Indians. It attends to the appointment of Indian commissions and boards of appraisement.

1174. In this division, also, an administrative examina. tion is made of accounts of Indian agents and others for supplies furnished the Indians. These accounts are first received by the Board of Indian Commissioners and submitted to the executive committee thereof for examination, revisal, and approval. They are then forwarded by the board, with a statement of the reasons for approval or disapproval, to the Secretary of the Interior. The action of the latter, as regards his approval or disapproval of the action of the Board of Commissioners, is founded upon the examination made in this division of his office. These accounts are then referred to the Second Auditor of the Treasury for adjustment, and are finally examined in the office of the Second Comptroller.

1175. This division is also charged with the examination of the accounts of Indian trust funds, and of the interest on investments of the proceeds of lands ceded by the Indians under treaty stipulations.

1176. It has charge of all correspondence relating to Indian affairs, excepting that relating to charges against officers in the Indian service.

IV. THE DIVISION OF LANDS AND RAILROADS.

1177. This division has charge of all correspondence of the Secretary's office relating to public lands and landgrant railroads. It keeps the docket of cases appealed to the Secretary of the Interior from the decisions of the General Land Office, and the record of the Secretary's decisions therein. It prepares for approval lists of swamp, railroad, internal improvement, and other selections of lands, and attends to matters connected with the adminis trative or supervisory powers of the Secretary regarding revolutionary bounty land scrip, &c.