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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 131 of Indian tribes (treaty obligations)," it will henoticed that the amount appropriated for the fiscal year 1885 is $2,680,160.04, and for the fiscal , year 1893, $3,141,889.77. This increase for 1893 of $460,000 is to be accounted for by several agreements made with Indians in the last few, ~ years, which provide for an anllual payment of certain sums for a cer-tain number of years. The appropriation of $3,141,889.77 includes the following sums appropriated on account of agreements negotiated since 1885 : Agreement with- Caurd'Al6neIndit1ns ....................................... $11,500 Fort Hall Indiana. ........................................... 6, OW - Indians at Blackfeet Agency ................................. 150,000 Indians at Fort Beiknap Agency ............................. 115, MK) Indirlns at Fort Peck Agency ................................. 165, 000 Indians at Fort Berthold Agency ............................. 80,000 Iowas in Oklahoma .......................................... 3,600 Sioux (schools) ......................................... 150,000 Sisseton and Wahpeton ...................................... 55,200 Chippewas in Minnesota ..................................... 90,000 - Total .......... .: .......................................... 826,300 Fnnds appropriated under the head of "Miscellaneous support" are for Indians who have no treaty or agreement funds, or whose funds under treaty or agreement are insufficient. The amount appropriated iu 1885 under this head was $1,282,978.81; for the fiscal year 1893 it is $685,500, or a dcerease of nearly 50 per cent. Of the above $685,500, - the sum of $390,000 is given for the support of the Indians at the Chey-enne and Arapaho, Kiowa, Sin Carlos, Jicarilla, and Mescalem Apache agencies, and the balance is divided among the Indians of thirty agen. cies scattered over the whole of the United States. For 'hgeneral and miscellaneous expenses of the Indian service," $925,484.79 were appropriated for 1885, and $1,350,647.53 for 1893. The above sum of $1,350,647.53 includes $263,000 which is reimbursable from the sale hereafter of lands belonging to Indians, and is made up . of the following items: Aiding Indian allottees ........................................... $15, OW Allotments under act of February 8, 1887 ......................... 40,000 Relief of Chippawaa in Minnesota ................................. 200, 000 Sale and allotment of Um%tillaR eservation ........................ 8,000 - Total ....................................................... 263,000 It also includes the following sums: Pay of farmers.. ................................................... $75,000 ~egotiatingw ith Indians for cessions of land8 to be restored to the public domain.. ................................................. 31,500 Increase inappropriation for police over 1885 ...................... 64,600 - -171,100 424,m |