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Show 30 Chapter V. . C7. Z/. : U - - FEDERAL BEGINNINGS IK UTAH On April 7, 1849, John Wilson was appointed Indian agent at Salt Lake » * hich J* a « then in Cal1f o rnla, with an allowance of fifteen hundred dollara a year for his own salary, five hundred for interpreters, and fifteen hundred dollara for contingent expenses, including presents to the Indians, the buying of two horses, house rent and lncident- 1 ale. As the cost of living was then from two to five 3 hundred per oent higher than " in the states,* we zsay conclude that the allowance was not munificent. Needs of the New Region. The Act of June 30, 1834, providing for the organization of the Departraant of Indian Affairs, restricted the nunber of agents to eleven in all, including at the time of the appointment of John Wilson,'' two agencies which had been transferred to California and New Uexioo. The appointments of these new agencies were given an appearance of legality by sections of the act, 1 Senate Executive Documents, 31 Cong., 1 Seas., Vol. IX, Doc. 13, pp. 97- 33 ( 557). 3 House Executive Documents, 35 Cong., 1 Seas., Vol. X, Doc. 71, p. 143 ( e56). |
