Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1895

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Dirbursen~mtro f Chippewa Co~amisa(olfl rmn Septabw 1. 1894. to September 1. 1895 . Salasies and expensea of the oommission ................... $13.013.00 Expenses of allotting land. salaries of sllotting agent and surveyors ................................................. 4.621.41 Salaries of regular employes. 1 clerk. 1 interpreter. 2 farmers. 1 scalar. 1 teamster. 1 tinsmith ........................... 4.865.00 Transportation of removal8 and board. including expenses of surveyors to and from their field of labor .............. 558.24 Feed and other expenaes connected with the keeping of oom-mission's team ........................................... 100.70 Tcansportation of supplies ................................. 396.33 Building houses from atump ................................ 3.265.00 Unolassified expenses-issuing ralions. loading and receiving freight. eto .............................................. 132.62 Expenaea breaking land a d seeds .......................... 388.12 Snhsistenoe supplies (open markat) ......................... 4.599.07 Open market purchases of hsrdwsre. sleds. plows. harrows. etc .................................................. 1.462.45 Purchase of oattle ......................................... 185.00 Purohaae of tin stock ...................................... 154.56 Rent of offices. warehouse. and pnrohl~seo f office supplies .. 632.44 Stenographing and typewriting ............................ 175.05 Total ................................................ 34.448.99 Allotments made from Saptmbw 1. 1894 to Septonber 1. 1895. White Earth Reservation: Mississipp~ Chippewas ...................................... 227 Mille Lac Chippews8 ........................................ 60 Gull Lake Chippewas ....................................... 32 Fond du Lw Chippewas .................................... 10 Otter Tail Pilla.aer Chio.o. e was .............................. 78 I.cach 1.sko Pillngor Chippewan ............................. $4 Wh~tnO ak l'oilkt hllsdisai.p.p l Chi.p.p e wsa .................... 12 Pemhins, Chippewas ........................................ 7 - Total ................................................. 470 Fond du Lac Reservation: Fond du Lao Chippewas ...................................... Csas Lake and Wlnnehigosh~shR eservation : White Oak Point Mississippi Chippewas ..................... 8 Leeoh Lake P~llagerC hippewas ............................. -207 Total ................................................. 721 In addition to the above original allotments 378 changes were made in allotments on the White Earth Reservation and 23 allotments were readjusted on the Oass Lake and Lake Winnebigoshish reservations . Daring the year 49 houses were built, at an aggregate cost of $3,167, or an average cost of $64.62 each for the labor employed, exclusive of the cost of material . For the construction of these houses 415, 000 feet of lnmber. 4.712. 000 shingles. and 7. 800 pounds of nails were issued to persons removed .