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Show XXXVIII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. sioner of Indian Affairs, and received by him -as such from the follow-ing sources : Dakota Central Railroad, for land on the Sioux Raservotiwl ............. $3,200 00 Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad, as part,ial payment for right, of way and ground for stations on Sioux Reservation ............ 13,911 00 Dakota Central Rsilroad, for right of way on Sioox Reservation.. ........ 375 00 Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad, for 129.19 sores of land for right of way and 188 acres for depot grounds on Crow Creek Resews, tion ................................................................. 1,424 76 Chicago, Milwaukee aud Saint Paul Railmad, for right of wey of branch road through Sisseton Reservation ........--........................... 2,402 13 Oregon Railway and Navigation Company for right of way through Umn-tilla Reservation, and for amount due individual Indians for improve-meuta .........................................................--...... 1,241 57 Received from War Department, being balance of smaunt rea1i.lized from . sills of Sioux ponies in 187fi.. ......................................... 171 15 22,7%5 61 Of this amount, I remitted under your anthocity, an the 23d of July lest, to Agent Sornerville, of the Umetiila Agenoy, t,o be paid part per capita and balance to individual Indiana for ixoprovemente ................... 1,247 51 -- Leaving with the Treasurer of the United States to my oredit a balance of. 21,484 04 I hope that Congress, at its next session, will pass such legislation as , will enable this office to pax the above funds to the Indians to whom it belongs. APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1886. The'funds appropriated by Congress for the fiscal year 1886 will, in the aggregate, be sufficient for the needs of the Indian Department, but some of the appropriations made for the support of special tribes have proved entirely inadequate, and distress and trouble were pre-vented only by takiug advantage of section 4 of the Indian appropria-tion bill, which provides t h a t The SsorstaryoE the Interior, unrler the diteotion of the President,, may use any anrplns that may remain in any of the said appropriations herein made for the pur- ' chase of subsistence for the severs1 Indian tribes, to an amount not exceeding $25,000 in the aggregate, to supply soy subsistence deficienoy that may occur. Article5 11 and 12 of the treaty with Utes of March 2, 1868, pro-ides tbat a sum of money at the discretion of Congress, but not to exceed $30,000 per annnm, be appropriated for the purchase of clothing, blankets, &c., and a like sum for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat, flour, &c. Until within the last t~voy ears Congres~a ppropriatedeach - year the sum of $60,000 for the above-named purchases, but for the fiscal years 1885 and 1886 the sum was reduced to $50,000. When itis considered that the game, which to a great extent enabled the Utes to subsist themselves, has almost disappeared, it will be understood that the sum of $50,000 is not sufficient to feed and clothe 3,300 Indians for a year. Early in the fiscal year the age.nt in charge of the Southern Utes in |
