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Show 1 22 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The superintendents, with one or two exceptious,,receive $2,000 per auuum, and the agents $1,500. Taking into consideration the respousi-ble duties devolved upon them, the heavy bond under which many are placed, the increased price of late years of things needful for their sup-uort and comfort. it must be auuarent to everv reflectin-c mihd t,hat,t ,lw ~~ ~~~~~. ~. ;.il~ll~sn~aatinoon; w~:eivc.dh i ' i ~ e ~isu n ut dir, nor u~casoreclmitlt~h o ~r~spni~sil!ilitut, yw lliclr tlrcy nre l~eltnl ut1 the st:r\icr rrndcrr~l. I \rould mist: r l ~hr: 11;11,y n i rl~cs ~~l~erintenclt~o uatts I e:t31 $L!,>ul~,a nd ~ I I P: ~gt:ntfl SZOIIII lvt'r ~I I I I ILIUI . Or 1wrh.11,~it ini:.hr +r brsr to IIII\.~. :I g~:r(lntinuiu tlw .*?~l:tri~t.lstn, .,e I I ~ ~ I It LXIP xrc.,irer res101111sibi1~iltc~,v ol!~ed11 tju11t l~eul a1111l gc i i i r~~~t li~c~~ :n i s l<: ~ ~ , oCr t ~ t : r i v i ~A~r~~:~nrt"lr~crt o*~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ f i i i 1 I I I ~ rBli~;~ ts olnrtl~ii~\\g.I II be don(! :it rhe ilkst deirinu or (\oirgesa ill the war. of i,ru\.itlil~tri n. ;I rro1~~;111izatinn1f 1r l ~ rc .ltarir.:~ilo we of rllis bureau: ' Thi number of clerks zkthorized by law as regular or perma-nent coustit.~xtes but little over one-half those now employed, the rest being temporary or extra clerks. In my judgment all the clericill force required for the l,eribrmauce of the business of the office should be anthor-ieed by law to continue in service year after year until by law discontin-ued. The salary of the chief clerk should be raised Do $2,500, and that of the chiefs of divisionsto $2,000, and there should be several more clerks of the fourth and third classes than me now in service. I also again suggest the propriety and justness of an increase of the salary of the head of this bureau. transactions in rhferel~ceto sales and paymerlts of Indian l a ~ ~ddusri ngihe year, and au exhibit of the present liabilities of the United States to Ii~diantr ibes mder treaty stipulatio~~ans d acts of Cougress; also tables of statistics of farming operations, population, wealth, and education of diEerent tribes. These statistical tables are not as couiplete and satis-factory as they might be, and then again they are only a part of what should reach this office in tune to accompany this report., hence the actua,l results in the respects they comprehendca~~nboet fully stated. F1111 and accurate retulms would no doubt show that the tribes generally have done fully as well the past year in their efforts to provide for their support and co~nfort as the previous year. Although the lnclian tribes in our territory recently acquired from I tu~s ihar we not been brought under the jurisdiction of this bureau, 1,have thought it proper to place among the docurue~~htse rewith transm~tteda report made by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel R. N. Scott, by order of Major'General Hallcck, commanding the military divisiou of t,lle Pacific, in which will be found much valuable and intelxsting illformation as to the location, number, and character of theIndiaus on and near the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions, a copy of which was Wnished to you by the War Depart-ment. At the time of this writing, no annual reports from the superin-tendents of Oregou, Montana, and &lzona, and from several of the agents in New iVIexico, Colorado, and Montana have been received, but should they shortly come to hand I will endeavor to have them embraced in an , appendix to this report. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, N. G. TAYLOR, Ommissioner. Hon. 0. H. BnOWNING, b'e~retay of the Interior. |