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Show 103 Inadequacy of Appropriations. The amount disbursed in Utah for Indian purposes from 1853 to July 1858 was, according to the Commissioner's report of the l a t t e r year, 1 § 173,000. This sum, averaging less than t h i r t y - f i v e thousand d o l l a r s a year for a period of five years, is at once shown to be inadequate in face of Superintendent Davies' careful estimate of $ 100,000 for the needs of the Utah 2 Indians in the year 1861. Moreover the complaint had long ago been voiced that Utah received less than other agencies where labor end expenses were no more arduous 3 or costly than in Utah. Mot u n t i l 1860 did Congress apparently recognize the insufficiency of i t s appropriations, when i t voted $ 53,007.35 " to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for payment of the l a t e Indian agents in Utah ( Hurt, Armstrong, Rose and Bedell) upon s e t t l e ment of their accounts." 1 Indian Affairs Report, 1858, p. 9. 3 Ibid., 1361, p. 133. 3 House Executive Documents, 35 Cong., 1 Sesa., Vol. X, Doc. 2, p. 154 ( 956). |
