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Show TABLE 5.-Shotring nu,,zbor qt depredation clairna on hand andiechred ainre Juna30,1885. +.if 'Amount Colp*uos. involved. On flle Jane 30, 1885 ......................................................... 3,839 $ll,BTB,088 Filed doring flacal year ending Jone 30. 1886 .................................. 168 674 939 Filed during soal )ear ellding June 30. 1887. ................................. 109 3 Q 514 Filed doringftsoal year ending Jllne3 0 1888. ............................................................. .. 769 1 807 686 Filed doring fisoal par ending J~~~ 30: 1889. ;.. 509 1: 383: 104 Total..: ............................................................... T ~ L 6E.-S kozoing izuntber of depredation claim8 disposed of since Jvne 30, 1885. Paid or apjuaiostea so thu they an not be forther con. aidered by thls offios ......... ;... ...................... 54 $218,190. I0 ............... Reported toCoopess Jannarg 1,1887 .................... 305 1,066,0?1.97 $278,32888 Reported to Congress Je.~?ar'y 1,1888 .................... 399 9% 433.86 336,128.42 Reported to Congress January I, 1889 .................... --22 9 1,070,003. b7 877,105.11 . Total ............................. . . .--_.I=-/ ___ 9-87 3,338,%9= 992,157.71 . Pendimgin Indim OffioeJune 30,1889. ................... <, 507 15,888,680.90 I. .............. In cletermiuing what claims were subject to illvestigation under the act of Narch 3,1885, as amended by the act of May 15,1886, the opinion of the Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department was oh-tained, under date of August B, 1856, which decides that all claim6 in favor of citizens of the United States (i. e., those rvho were citizens at the date of the alleged depredation) for losses by Indians who were in treaty relat,ions at the time of the loss, which were on file March.3, 1885, are subject to investigation, whether the same were filed within three years from the date of the injury complained of or not; also that all such claims for depredations committed since December 1,1873, although filed since Ma,rch 3, 1885, are also subject to investigation, for the reavou that the three-year limitation clause of the seventeenth sec-tioo of the act of June 30, 1834, which acted ibs a bar, was repealed when the Revised Statutes went illto effect December 1, 1873, that clause not being iuclutled IU the Revised Statutes (Sec. 2156). The number of claims subject to investigation has been increased by a recent decision which fixes December 1,1870, three years prior to the repeal of the limitation clause, instead of December 1,1873, the date of. the repeal, as the time subsequent to which depredatiou claims subject to examination may date. Under these decisions, out of the 4,507 claims above noted aspending in this office, 2,333 claims, involving a.bout $5,361,675, are sul?ject toin-vestigation, of which number 44i, amounting to $1,745,398.47, were filed since March 5, 1885, but being for depredations committed since De-cember 1, 1870, are not barred. This leaves 2,174 claims, involving s total amount of about $10,627,724.53, which from various causes can not beinvestigated under above acts. Of these, 800 claims, involving $5,145,965.48, are for various causes not in condition for present oon- |
