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Show I 50 REYORT OF THE COBlMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. August 24, 1900, permission wa8 granted, upon the request of Hon. H. C. Hansbrongh, United States Senate, for about twenty-five fami-lies with their tepees to leave the Standing Rock Reservation, N. Dak., to participate in the "harvest festival" to be held at Casselton, N. Dak. In this case the same requirements were exacted as in the former. NEEDED PUBLICATIONS ON INDIAN MATTERS. The suggestions made in my last report as to the need of new com-pilations of laws relating to Indian affairs, of execntive orders con-cerning Indian reservations, and of treaties and agreements made with 1ndians are earnestly renewed. The latest edition of Laws Relating to Indian Affairs stops with March 4, 1884; Executive Orders Relat-ing to Indian Xese~ationsis brought down no farther than April 1, 1890, and the editions of both works are exhausted. Since these dates legislation of vital importance has been entlcted. and many changes have been made in Indian reservations. Constant calls are made on the o5ce for the old volumes and for information as to subsequent legislation and execntive action. The public need can be met only by new editions of these books, which should, of course, be brought down to date. In 1837 a compilation of Indian treaties from 1778 to date was made, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An inac-curate Revision of Indian Treaties then in force was made in 1873. The demand for a publication that shall contain all ratified treaties and agreements made by the United States with Indian tribes is increas-ing. It would be in constant nsein this ofice and would be frequently referred to by other Government bureaus and by members of Con-gress as well as by the public at large. Again I urge that Congress make an appropriation to cover the expense of compiling and issuing these three publications. CLERKS DESIGNATED AS SPECIAL DISBURSING AGENTS. By the fourth section of "An act to legalize the deed and other rec-ords of the Office of Indian Affairs, and to provide and authorize the use of a seal by said office," approved July 26, 1892 (27 Stat. L., p. 272), one of the employees of this ofice was authorized to be desig-nated by the Commissioner as the receiving clerk, who should give bond in the sum of $l,OOO,etc. There is another clerk in this office, who han been appointed and designated by the Secretary of the Interior a8 a special disbursing officer, who is required to give bond in the sum of $2,000. Thereis no salary, pay, or other emolument attached to these o5ces for the performance of the duties thus imposed upon them. It is now the policy of the Government to require that its bonded o5cers execute a bond, etc., with a duly organized bond and trust |
