Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the InteriorThe Office., 1879 - Indians of North America |
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Abstract of proposals advertisement of March agricultural amount annual report annuity Arapaho attendance band Bannacks bid was accompanied Blackfeet Bolts buildings bushels camp cattle Cheyenne chief Chippewas civilization COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN comparison of samples Congress 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 Indian Territory Iron July June Kansas Kiowa labor Lake land large type denote located Los Pinos March 26 mark Mescalero miles Missouri River Nez Percé NOTE.-Figures in large Number of acres Number of Indian plow Points of delivery Ponca potatoes Pottawatomies pounds proposals received Pueblo Quantity awarded Quantity offered Quapaw received and contracts reservation respectfully Sac and Fox Saint Paul Shoshone Sioux City supplies tion treaty tribe United States Indian wagons wheat White River Yakama Yanktonai York City
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Page 185 - An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes," approved August 15, 1876, by and between George W.
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 164 - President may, from time to time, at his discretion, cause the whole to be surveyed, and may assign to each head of a family or single person over twenty-one years of age, eighty acres of land for his or their separate use; and he may, at his discretion, as fast as the occupants become capable of transacting their own affairs, issue patents therefor to such occupants, with such restrictions of the power of alienation as he may see fit to impose.
Page 132 - Ocean ; thence north, along said ocean, to the mouth of Salmon River; thence due east to the western boundary of the eighth range of townships west of the Willamette meridian; thence south with said boundary to a point due east of the place of beginning...
Page 187 - ... receiver of the land office at Beatrice, Nebraska, that they intend to occupy the land for authority to purchase which they make application, and who shall within three months from the date of such application make a permanent settlement upon the same, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to each purchaser...
Page 214 - ... 5 east to the place of beginning. Also all the land in said Territory bounded and described as follows, viz : Beginning at the northwest corner of the old Gila Reservation ; thence by a direct line running northwesterly until it strikes Salt River 4 miles east from the...
Page 186 - ... dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations, and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and for the purchase of equipments and rations for policemen of non-ration agencies, ninety thousand dollars.
Page 217 - ... the south line of the Moqui Reservation ; thence due west to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement until such time as the Indians residing thereon shall have been settled permanently under the provisions of the homestead laws or the general allotment act approved February 8, 1887 (24 Stats., 388), and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 28, 1891 (26 Stats., 794).
Page 188 - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it has become known to me that certain evil-disposed persons have within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States begun and set on foot preparations for an organized and forcible possession of and settlement upon the lands of what is known...
Page 186 - ... with interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum from the...