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Show .~ ~. , REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XCIlI . [Agent Sears. Kersda: Ner.] The police oonsiPts of two captains and fourteen prirates, making an effective force of intelligent, lusty fellows, whose prowess, horrever, 1 am glad to record, irr rarely put to test. A aohstantial jail on the agency gronnda has been without an occupant during the past faor months and will probabl~so remain for months to come. I [Agent Ashley. Chsjenne and Arapaho, Oklahoma,.] The Indian police foroe of thia agency eonaists of three ofieers and twenty-nine privates. They are selected from bath tribes, and hare been fsithfol and efficient with hot one or two exceptions. They are of great help in the preservation of peace and the maintenance of order. The Indian police foroe at this agency have at all times faithfully and willingly I performed the almost ooostaot service dnmsndad of them. I consider their serv~ces indispensable to the mwisaful management and maintenance of good order on the reservation. They frequently oamplain and often qoit the service hdoause their pay is so small, hot when they are enaauraged with the belief that the Government will yet see and recogniee the value of their aervioes by paying them a, better SILIXXt-h~e y will con-t, inue to fornish their own ammunition, ride their own best horses, and to death if need he, for the same old price, viz, $8 per month. I [Agent Moorhoom, Umatilla, Oregou.] The Indiso police consists of seven members, vie, one captain and six privates. They are effioient officers, and are an indispensable adjunct to the management of the affairs of this reservation. Iu recent eommuniestiou to the honorable Com. mlssianer of Ind~an Affairs I recommel~dcd an increase of three in the police foroe This, I am pleased to note, has been granted, so that for the ensuing fiscal year we will have p. foroe sufficient to enforce the rules and regolations of the Department with faoiiity and dispatch. I [Agent Bgrnce. Dintrh and Onrag. Utah.1 I hsve at this agency a police force consisting of a captain and six privates. Thie small force of lnan have done remarkabl~g ood service during the year, iu maintaiu-ing goad order on the rasefvatiou, looking after intruders end trespassers, scooting duty, etc. The increase of the captain's pap from $10 to $12 and the privates' pay from $8 to $10 per mouth, shows to them that their servicea are appreoiafed. On June 30 dl of my police resigned hut three. They said they wanted either "more pay or less work," and Idid not think thei r req~~eusntr easonable, particularly at tbat time, es they had been compelled to doan unusual amount of hard work, keep-ing sheep and cattle off the reserve. The line required to be watched covers s. dis. tanee of over 40 miles. It is important that this line he guarded. The number of sheep and cattle being herded near the line was nnusnaliy large, and if not gosrried they would ''stray overn and scatter on the reservation. Good men oau not siwags .be obtained for poliee when the oornpeoeatioo is but $8 parmonth. Such service reo-ders them unpopular with Iudinls, aud whea it is oonsidered that on a reserve like this, where each policelllsn require8 from two to four horse8 in the discharge of his duties, and that these horses last but a short time, the complaints of these men are entitled to oonaideration. Were it not tbat I permit these police to aat as constables in the districts in which justices of the peaoe are located, and that they receive s |
