Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs1865 |
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4th article treaty acres agency agricultural amount annual report annuities Apaches Arapahoes Arkansas attention bands Blackfeet bushels cattle charge Cherokee nation Cheyennes Chickasaw chief Chippewas Choctaws Colonel Comanches commission Commissioner of Indian condition corn council Creek crops cultivation D. N. COOLEY DAKOTA TERRITORY delegation desire dians employés farming Fort Gibson Fort Smith furnished Governor herewith honor horses hostile hundred Indian Agent Indian country instructions Interior JAMES HARLAN Kansas Kiowas labor Lake land large number Leavenworth letter live located loyal ment miles military Missouri Missouri river necessary NEWTON EDMUNDS Nez Percés obedient servant Omaha Osages parties Pawnees peace portion potatoes present President purchase Quapaws received report of Agent reservation respectfully river season Secretary Seminoles September Shawnees Sioux submit subsistence Superintendent Indian Affairs tion tribes of Indians U. S. Indian Agent United States Indian Utah valley Washington whites winter Yakama
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Page 546 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 322 - The United States agree to protect the Cherokee nation from domestic strife and foreign enemies and against intestine wars between the several tribes.
Page 546 - When immediate delivery or performance is required by the public exigency, the articles or services required may be procured by open purchase or contract, at the places and in the manner in which such articles are usually bought and so.ld, or such services engaged, between individuals.
Page 87 - GENERAL : In compliance with your request, I have the honor to submit the...
Page 546 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the copy of contract hereto annexed is an exact copy of a contract made by me personally with ; that I made the same fairly without any benefit or advantage to myself, or allowing any such benefit or advantage corruptly to the said , or any other person; and that the papers accompanying include all those relating to the said contract, as required by the statute in such case made and provided.
Page 491 - SIR : In compliance with your instructions, I have the honor to submit my third annual report.
Page 532 - Stuart commissioner, on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, have hereunto set their hands, at La Pointe of Lake Superior.
Page 331 - give" then, has no real importance attached to it. The first and second articles stipulate for the mutual restoration of prisoners, and are of course equal. The third article acknowledges the Cherokees to be under the protection of the United States of America, and of no other power.
Page 269 - Indians and not required for their use and subsistence, under -such regulations as shall be established by the Secretary of the Interior. But no such sale shall be made so as to interfere with the execution of any order lawfully issued by the Secretary of War, connected with the movement or subsistence of troops. * * *" "Sec. 2138. Every person who drives or...
Page 546 - It shall be the further duty of the officer before making his return according to the preceding section to affix to the same his affidavit in the following form, sworn to before some magistrate having authority to administer oaths: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the copy of contract hereto annexed is an exact copy of a contract made by me personally with ; that I made the same fairly without any benefit or advantage to myself or allowing any such benefit or advantage corruptly to the said...