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Show REPORT OF TRE COJfYISSIONE R OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. [Mr. COOLEYha ving resigned ss Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Hon. L. V. BOGYB UD-oeeded to the position November 1, 1866.1 ABSTRACT OF RECOMMENDATIONS CONTAINED IN REPORT OF COMMIS-SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Emly attention needed to certain treaties pending in the Senate. Provisions should be made for treat" mraneements with remitiuirie ban& of Santee Sioux in northestem Dakota. - Arrangements, by legislation or otherwise, for settlement of Wyandott di5eulties. Laws ceeded for ounishment of crimes in the Indian countrv. Revisio~o~f sys& of trade and licenses. Appropriation of a fund for reseuiug and restoring captives to their homes. Appropriation of a fund for securing lnsmorisls of Indians. Revision of I&VreRla tiug to depredations. Appropriation for surreys for allotments to Indians. Legislation to prevent taxation of Indian lands. Reorganizstiun of clerics1 force of Indian Office. Reorganization of superiutendelrcies and sgeooies. Iticrease of salnrirs of Camniiarioner and officers. Special spprop~iationsfo r edt~eatianin severs1 snperintendencies. /provisions fur a treat? with Cjaji Ilnugc loJinns in Oregon. Increased appi.oprisrionn in serrral superiutendeueirs, as Alirona. Sevt Mexico, 6 e . New Da ~ n c ~ r r n r r iOTF THE INTERIOR, Ofie Indian Affaim, October 22, 1866. SIR: I n presenting my second annual report, I follow the practice of pre-vious years, of brirlg~ng to the attention of the department such topics con. nected with the Indian service aa are of general interest, before proceeding to partict~lamr elative to the va~ionas n.pe rintendencies and their subordinate as-e n-ties. It may not be deemed improper to state at the outset. that it would be very agreeable, and that much labor could be saved, if it were possible, consistent with a fair r ~ u .mSof the business of the-year, for these annual reports to be abridged; but I have not been able to see how this can be done. It does not seem a great t a ~ kto attend to the business of directing the management of about three hundred thuuaand Indians; but when it is considered that those Iurliana are scattered orer a coutiuent, and divided into more than two hundred tribes, in charge of fourteen supelintendents and some seventy agents, whose frequent reporta and quarterly accounts are to be examined and adjusted ; that no general rules can be adopted for the guidance of those officers, for the reasou that the people nuder their charge are so different in habits, customs, manners, and organization, varying from the civilized and educated Cherokee and Choc-r taw to the miserable lizard-eaters of Arizona; and that this office is called upon |
