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Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication And Draft Of A Bill From The Secretary Of The Interior, Relative To The Western Miami Indians At Quapaw Agency, In The Indian Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Western Miamies at the Quapaw Agency. [2027] Distribution of proceeds from the sale of their lands in Kansas.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior Relative To Certain Bonds Held By The Treasurer Of The United States In The Name Of The Ottawa And Chippewa Indians

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Funds of the Chippewas and Ottawas. [2027] Disposal of bonds and funds held by the Treasurer of the U.S.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of War Relative To The Disposal Of Abandoned Military Reservations

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Abandoned Military Reservations. [2027] Disposal of reservations; the reasons for abandonment are sometimes relevant to Indian affairs.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior Relative To Certain Funds Belonging To The Miami Indians Of Kansas

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Funds of the Miamies in Kansas. [2027] Consolidation of funds under the treaties of 6 Oct. 1818, 23 Oct. 1834, and 5 June 1854.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With A Draft Of A Bill To Increase The Salary Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, And To Create The Office Of Assistant Commissioner

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Salary of the CIA. [2027] To increase the salary to $5000 per year.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With Draft Of Bill For The Per Capita Distribution Of The Sum Of Two Thousand Dollars To The Band Of Eastern Shawnee Indians At Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Eastern Shawnee Indians. [1989] Per capita distribution of $2000 to the Eastern Shawnees at the Quapaw agency, Indian Territory.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With Draft Of A Bill Authorizing The Sale Of Certain Pine Timber Cut Upon The Menomonee Reservation In Wisconsin, With Accompanying Papers

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Sale of Timber Cut on the Menomonee Reservation. [1989] Bill authorizing the sale of lumber cut by the Menomonees during 1876-1877.

Report : Petition Of J. Spencer And J. Mead

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report : Petition of J. Spencer and J. Mead. [2004] Supplies to the Kansas Indians in 1866-1867.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With Draft Of Bill And Accompanying Papers, In Reference To The Proposition Of The Creek Nation Of Indians For The Cession Of Certain Of Their Lands In The Indian Territory Occupied By The Seminole Indians.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Cession of Lands in Indian Territory. 24 Jan. SED 75, 47-1, v4, 9p. [1989] Proposition of the Creeks for the cession of their lands occupied by the Seminoles.

Reports Of Captain L. A. Beardslee, U. S. Navy, Relative To Affairs In Alaska, And The Operations Of The U. S. S. Jamestown Under His Command, While In The Waters Of That Territory.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Affairs in Alaska. 24 Jan. SED 71, 47-1, v4, 198p. [1989] Relations between the Indians and whites residing in Alaska.

Letter From The Secretary Of War, Transmitting Copies Of Correspondence, &C., Relative To The Expenditure Of The Appropriation Made By The Act Of April 16, 1880, "For Acquiring Sites And The Erection Of Suitable Posts For The Protection Of The Rio Grande Frontier," In Response To Resolution Of The House Of Representatives Of January 12, 1882

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Posts on the Rio Grande Frontier. [2027] Indian depredations.

John R. Taggert.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report : Petition of J. Taggert. [2065] Homestead on a location of Sioux half-breed scrip.

Message From The President Of The United States, Recommending A Renewal Of The Appropriation Of Ten Thousand Dollars Heretofore Made For Defraying The Expenses Of The Board Of Indian Commissioners.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Appropriation for the Indian Com'rs. [1987] Defraying expenses of the Board of Indian Com'rs.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior With Draft Of Bill Providing For The Improvement Of The Condition Of Indians Occupying Reservations

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Condition of Indians Occupying Reservations. [1987] A bill proposing to improve the condition of reservation Indians by reduction of reservation sizes, and allotment of lands in severalty.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With Draft Of A Bill, In Reference To The Settlement Of The Estates Of Deceased Kickapoo Indians In The State Of Kansas.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Message on the Kickapoo Indians [1987]. On settlement of the estates of deceased Kickapoos in Kansas; allotment; treaty of 28 June 1862.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior In Relation To Proposed Legislation For The Sale Of The Otoe And Missouria Indian Reservation In The States Of Nebraska And Kansas.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Otoe and Missouria Reservation. [1987] For the sale of reservation lands in Nebraska and Kansas.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With Draft Of A Bill To Appropriate Money To Meet Deficiency In The Indian Service For The Year Ending June 30, 1882

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Deficiency in the Indian Service. [1987] Appropriation for a deficiency for the year ending 30 June 1882.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With A Draft Of A Bill To Accept And Ratify An Agreement With The Crow Indians For The Sale Of A Portion Of Their Reservation In The Territory Of Montana Required For The Northern Pacific Railroad.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Crow Indian Reservation. [1987] Bill to ratify the agreement of 23 Aug. 1881; sale of reservation lands in Montana which are needed by the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Report : Petition Of J. Hertford

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report : Petition of J. Hertford. [2004] Clerk at the Sac and Fox agency, Indian Territory; 1879.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior In Reference To An Agreement Between The Shoshone And Bannock Indians With The United States

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Agreement with the Shoshones and Bannocks. 11 Jan. HED 18,47-1, v18, 16p. [2026] Made 18 July 1881; cession of lands in the Fort Hall Indian reservation in Idaho for the use of the Utah and Northern railway.

Creek Orphan Fund

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Creek Orphan Fund. [2004] Claim for reimbursement of the fund; treaty of 24 Mar. 1832.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, With Accompanying Papers, In Reference To The Bill Of Choctaw Council, Approved November 10, 1881, Granting A Right Of Way Through The Choctaw Nation To The Saint Louis And San Francisco Railway Company, &C.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Right of Way Through the Choctaw Nation. [1987] On a bill passed by the Choctaw council granting a right of way to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Co.

The Laws Of Jamaica, 1881-82, Jamaica

Jamaica

A session of the legislative council, which began on the 22nd day of November, 1881, and terminated on the 14th day of February, 1882; and to which is added the Law passed in the special session held on the 18th and 19th days of May, 1882.

Published by authority

Report Of Messrs. Thurman, Washburne, & Cooley, Constituting An Advisory Committee On Differential Rates By Railroads Between The West And The Seaboard., Allen G. Thurman, E. B. Washburne, Thomas M. Cooley

Books

In January, 1882, the undersigned were notified that they had been selected by the New.York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, W. H. Vanderbilt, P1·esident; the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company, H. J. Jewett, President; the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, G. B. Roberts, President, and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, John W. Garrett, President, to act as an Advisory Commission upon " the differences in rates that should exist, both eastwardly and westwardly, upon all classes of freights between the several terminal Atlantic ports," and to report upon the same.

School Boards: Their Duties And Responsibilities, Thomas M. Cooley

Other Publications

Justice Cooley comments on the office of member of a school board as one of public trust, “and from the nature of the duties attached, is one of the most important.” Cooley notes that while this office may not be as exalted as other positions, “it deals with interests which concern every household, and upon which the highest interests of the State and the nation may at last depend.” His reverence for the vocation is expressed in his closing, where he asserts that “As it is the manifest purpose of the Almighty that body and mind should alike be developed, …

Report : Claim Of F. Yates

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report : Claim of F. Yates. [2004] Transport of property of Whetstone agency from White River to the new Sioux reservation in Dakota.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting, In Compliance With A Senate Resolution Of The 15th Instant, A Copy Of The Report Of The Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., Upon The Condition Of Education In Alaska.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Education in Alaska. 20 Dec. SED 30,47-1, v1, 28p. [1986] Education of Indians and halfbreeds in Alaska by the Russian and U.S. governments.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting Copy Of A Communication Dated 14th Instant, From The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, And Accompanying Draft Of A Bill To Accept And Ratify An Agreement With The Crow Indians For Sale Of Western Portion Of Their Reservation In Montana Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Letter on the Crow Indians. [1986] Bill to ratify the agreement of 12 June 1880 for sale of the western portion of the Crow reservation in Montana.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting A Communication From The Secretary Of The Interior, In Reference To The Applications Of The Chicago, Texas And Mexican Central, And The Saint Louis And San Francisco Railway Companies, For A Right Of Way Across The Lands Of The Choctaw Nation, In The Indian Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Right of Way Across Choctaw Lands. [1986] Applications of the Chicago, Texas, and Mexican Central, and the St. Louis, and San Francisco Railway Companies to cross Choctaw lands in Indian Territory; meets approval of the Choctaws.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting A Copy Of Communication From The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, And Accompanying Statement Showing Disposition Of Clothing Purchased From Appropriation, Not Specifically Appropriated For Under Treaties With Various Tribes

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Disposition of Certain Clothing. [1986] Purchased for Paiutes, Shoshones, Modocs, Quapaws, Chippewas, Bannocks, Apaches, Nex Percés, Wichitas, and Sheepeaters.