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Show - - REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 35 1 I ment of attorneys and in procuring niessary testimony to establish I . their claims. The facts, however, give to claimants but little encouragement to ex-a fina.1 adjudication, as the following statistics, covering the period 1 from January 1,1867, to October 31,1875, will show : Nomber of claims filed in Indian Office ................................ 1,557 Aggregate amount of cla,ima filed ..................................... -$4,79-7,380 65 Amoont reported by the Office for allowance thereon .................. $1,143,810 54 'Amount reported for diaellowsnoe .................................... 1,626.3R9 70 Amount of the claims on file vet to he examined and reported upon .... 1,930,568 30 Amount of such of the claims"m have been returned to the claimiants.. . 96:612 11 Tom .......................................................... 4,797,380 65 - Number of above daims allowed and paid by the Department previous to sot of Congress May 29, 187!!, prohibiting my payment on aeoaunt of such claims exoept from funds speoificnlly appropriated therefor. Amount of payments om said 62 claims from treaty-funds of Indians and from money8 specificdly appropriated.. ........................... Nnmber of the said reported 1,557 claims paid by the Department since sot of 1S'Z ....... .:. .............................................. Aggregate amoont paymenta on said five olaims ....................... Since tho act of May 29.1872, under which this inqairy has been made and correspou~li~ex~pge ctatiolls exeite(l, only tive claims, amouuting to S213.112.90. out of the 1.33; claim8 tile~l.i~~volvuinearr lr five millio~~ofs dolfars, ha.ve received the attention of ~ongres<s and I iespectfully sag. gest that this matter be laid beforeOongress, with the recommendation that, if no further action upon the claims thus examined and reported is to be takeu, the Ofice may be relieved from the duty of such exam-ination, in oder that persons who have suffered from Indian depreda-tions may not be led to incur additional loss by the expense involved in preparink aud preucntiog their clain~sto t h l~iep arto~&t,a nd that t h y way be :IIRO tared icon1 aolic~tudea s u) tlre ivsnc ot' expectutions which are ve1.y n:~turallva wake~~ebdy the torrn~ol liicial action now required by act bf Congreis. SPECIAL COMMISBIONS-KICKAPOO EEBfOVAL. A co,mmissiou consisting of Hon. Henry M. Atkinson, of Nebmka, and 001. Thomas Q. Williams, of San Antonio, Texas, was appointed in March, 1873, under acts of Congress approved July 15,1870. and March 31,1871, [Stat. at Large, pp. 369,569,] to effect the removal of theEick-apooand other American Indean tribes, roving on the borders of Mexico and Texas, to reservations within the Territories of the United States. They have reported the successful removal of 480 Eickapoos from the border to reservation in Indian Territory. On the5tb of May last, Will-iam M. Edgar, esq., succeeded Mr. Atkinson, resigned, and was author-ized to complete the work begun by said commission. On the 14th at July last, Nr. Williams, in concluding the work assigned the commit+ sion, reported that the authorities of the Mesican State of Chihuahua had made a treatv. in Mav last. with the Indians of that State. wherein the lndiaov are $ovided kith dubsistc~icea nd a permanent reserriltiou for all the tribes. who are reqairrd to loc:~toa nd reluain thorcon, undur similar restrictions to those regulating American reservations, and they are specifically prohibited from crossing theRio Grande into the United States, for any cause, without special permission. This treaty, if ap-proved by the general government of Mexico, and-enforced, will relieve |
