Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs1879 |
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Abstract of proposals advertisement of March agricultural amount annual report annuity Arapaho attendance band Bannacks bid was accompanied Blackfeet Bolts bottles bushels camp cattle Cheyenne Chippewas civilization Comanches COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN comparison of samples contracts awarded corn crops cultivation denote the rates dians employés Executive order farm fence funds furnished honor horses houses inch INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian service Iron July June Kansas Kiowa labor Lake land large type denote Los Pinos March 26 mark miles Missouri River Nez Percé NOTE.-Figures in large Number of acres Number of Indian oats plow Points of delivery Ponca potatoes Pottawatomies pounds proposals received Pueblo Quantity awarded Quantity offered Quapaw received and contracts reservation respectfully River Agency Sac and Fox Saint Paul Shoshone Sioux City supplies thence tion treaty tribe United States Indian wagon wheat White River Wichita x mark Yakama Yanktonai York City
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Page 187 - That whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use or manufacture the same, such owner's remedy shall be by suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture...
Page xxxiv - If bad men among the Indians shall commit a wrong or depredation upon the person or property of any one, white, black, or Indian, subject to the authority of the United States, and at peace therewith, the...
Page xxi - States, to admit amongst them ; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employes of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article...
Page 197 - Treasury to their credit, and of interest annually arising from such bonds and funds ; also, a statement showing the transactions arising on account of moneys derived from the sales of Indian lands, all being sufficiently in detail to enable a proper understanding of the subject.
Page xxxi - Indians seem to consider the advance of troops as a declaration of real war. In this I am laboring to undeceive them, and at the same time to convince them they cannot do whatever they please. The first object now is to allay apprehension.
Page 189 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and...
Page 186 - ... with interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum from the...
Page 189 - ... military posts, and such persons as may be privileged to reside and trade therein under the intercourse laws of the United States; and Whereas those laws provide for the removal of all persons residing and trading therein without express permission of the Indian Department and agents, and also of all persons whom such agents may deem to be improper persons to reside in the Indian country...
Page 188 - Indians, and of the individual members thereof, t» be duly presented and protected in said suit, and he shall employ counsel to aid in such protection ; and any other claimants to said lands, or any part thereof, may appear in said cause, personally or by counsel, to defend the same and assert their rights ; and said court shall, upon proof and hearing, proceed to determine, according to the principles of law and equity, all...
Page 186 - Interior for the pay of other employees at such agency, but no deficiency shall be thereby created, and, when necessary, specified employees may be detailed for other service when not required for the duty for which they were engaged ; and that the several appropriations...