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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 33 Under this authority Messrs. John B. Goodwin, of Georgia, Charles G. Hoyt, of Nebraska, and Benj. I?. Barge, of Washington, have been appointed commissioners. Instructions for their guidance in the dis-charge of their duties were submitted to the Department August 29, 1896, aud approved August 31,1896. Chippewa Reservations, Minn.-The annual report of this office for 1800 gives account of the negotiat.ions with the Chippewa Indians of Min-nesota for the cession and relinquishment of certain of their lands, in accordance with the provisious of the act of January 14,1889 (25 Stat., 642). In annual reports for the following years will be found state-ments of the progress of the work from year to year. The commission now consists of but one member. The Indian appro-priation act of June 10,1896 (29 Stat., 326), provided that from that date the duties imposed upon the three commissioners by the act of January 14, 1889, should be performed by one commissioner to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior. On June 18 the Secre-tary of the Interior designated M. R. Baldwin, the former chairman, as the commissioner to continue the work. The fouowing me itemized statements of the disbursements of the eommission, and work accomplished by it, from September 1,1895, to September 1,1896: Dialr%+%emmtosf the cmnmission fm abooeperiod. Sdarieies md expenses of the commission .................... $12,161.80 Expetlaen of allotting lsnds, s d ~ r i e sof allotting agent and surveyors ................................................ 4,317.92 Salaries of regular employees, 1 clerk, 1 interpreter, 1 aonler, 1 teamster, 1 farmer, and 1 tinsmith ...................... 2,950.00 Salmies of irregular employees, in issuing ratiens, reoeiving supplies, etc ............................................. 58.50 Paid for freight from White Earth to Pine Point for issue. .. 18.10 Rent of warehouse at White Earth and offices in the field.. . 130.00 Building houses forxsmovd Indiana ........................ 120.00 Breaking land for removal Indiana. ......................... 9.00 Expenses of team, repairs to harness, etc. ................... 136.10 Officeexpensen, blanks, wood, lights, etc ..................... 85.35 Expenses protecting lumber from fires ...................... 19.60 Traveling expenses of allotting agents md surveyors to enrl from their work.. ....................................... 332.28 Subsistence supplies (open-market purchnse) ............... 2,269.54 Parcheae of hardware, egrioultnrel implements, etc., for removal Indiana ....................................... .: 378.64 Expenses inourred in sopport of Indians during councils.. .. 39.52 Totd disbursements. ................................. 23,026.25 IND 9- |
