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Show I OP THE I COM3IISSIONER OF iXDIA8 AFFAIRS. DEPARTJIIEXOTF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAANFF AIRS, Washington, D. C., September 16,1893. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the Sixty-second Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. I entered upon the discharge of the duties of this Office April 18 last. For four weeks of the time since then I have been engaged in New Pork City making contraots for the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, and I have had no time as yet to visit Indian res-ervations and to inspect perso~~alltyh e workings of the agencies and schools. However, in the adjustment of questions arising at remote points where kndwledge of local conditions is important, I have had the val-uable aid of the Assistant' Commissioner, General Armstrong, who, having visited the several reservations as Indian Inspector, has a per-sonal knowledge of the degrees of civilization attained by the various tribes, and the local conditions at each agency. I INDIAN AGENTS. Under the legislation contained in the Indian appropriation act of July 13,1892, the. following order in regard to the detail of Army officers to act as Indian agents vas issned by the President on the 1'7th of last June : EXECUTIVMEA NSION, Tl'askisgton, June 17, 1895. Pursnant to a provision of ahapter 161 of the law6 of the tirst session of the Fifty-second Congress, passed on the 13th day of July, 1892, vhich reads as follows: ! Prouided, Thet fromand after the passage of this act the President shall detail officers of tha United States Army to aot ns Inrlian a ents at all agencies where vacancies from any onuse may hereafter occur, who, vhbe acting as sneh agents, 5 |
