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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XI11 of beans, or in-lieu of said articles the equivrtlent thereof, in the dis-cretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. According to the re-ports of the agents, there are now on the different Sioux reservations 26,683 persons, who, under article 5 of the ab0v.e treaty, are entitled to 29,317,885 pounds beef gross, 4,869,647B pounds of corn and flour each, 292,179 pounds of beans, 389,572 pounds of coffee, and 779,144 ~lounds of sugar, costing at contract prices $1,558,847.68. The amount amppro-priated by Congress for subsistence of the Sioux, including transporta-tion of all supplies from steamboat landings and terminus of railroads to agencies? is $1,076,000, of which at least $50,000 will berequired for trmsportatiou, making a deficiencx of $500,000, f t~wr hich an estimate will be submitted to Congress at it.8 next session. As this amount is due ~uldertr eaty stipnlations, i t is hoped it will be furnished. - The only other deficiency bo be provided for by Congress will be %bout$ 50,000 for LLtransportatioonf Indian supplies." For that pur-pose $275,000 mere appropriated by Congress, bnt this amount will not be sufficient to pay for all the transportation; and as the right to incur deficiency for transportation was conceded at the last session of Congress by the House Committee on Appropriations, I have no doubt that the additional amonnt required will be appropriated. Sectio~8i of the act making sppropriatious for the current and con-tingent expenses of the Indian service, &c., for the fiscal year 1883, di-rects that uotice shall be given to such Indians us are now being snb-sisted, in whole or in part, by appropria.tions not required by treaty, that a mconlmendatio~l will be made to Congress, at its next session for a diminution of. such appropriations, and in pursuance thereof I have issued the following circular aud forwarded it to the different In-dian agents: DEPARTXENOTF WE IXTERIOR, OFFICE OF I6DIAN ArEnIns. ?VasUngton, Ssptern6er 27, 1882. SIR: In e~mpl imeev i th iustn~ctionsr eceived from the honorable Secretary of the Interior, your a,ttention is called to section 8 of "An ar,t making nppropriaCious for the cnrrent and contingent expenses of the ~ n d i s nD epartment, and for falfilling treaty stipnlation with various Indian tribes, for the fiscal year 18dJ, and for other pnrpoues," approved May 17, 18JP, which reds ns follows: '<That the Seoretsryof the Interior ~11~c1a1u se sneh Indians an, nom being wbaiated, in whole or in part, by appropriations not required in discharge of treaty obligntions, to be uotitied that he vill recommend to Congmss, a t i t s n r x t se~siona, dimiontion of such appropria-tiau, nndthat in eooserloenae thereof their fittore support will depend more npon their own exertions.'' In romplianoo with the above you will give your Indians the not~ioe required by this act of Congress, mda9sure them that while the government is disposed to treat them kinlly and even generously, and to extend to them uvery needed assistance to enable them to makrra comfortable living for themselves and families, yet they must remember that there is nonr no treat,y or other obligation an tho part of the govern-ment to support tllem, and that w11a.t they are now receiving is porely a gift, andthst there must oome a time when they nil1 be expected to labor for their own stlpport the |
