Annual Report Of The United States Indian Inspector For The Indian Territory To The Secretary Of The Interior

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Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Indian Inspector for the Indian Territory written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the United States Indian Inspector for the Indian Territory: Together With the Reports of the Superintendent of Schools in That Territory, and of the Indian Agent in Charge of the Union Agency, to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1899 Sir: In compliance with Department instructions, directing me to submit a report of the work of this office during the year ended June 30, 1899, under provisions of an act of Congress approved June 28, 1898, together with a statement concerning the legislation which I consider necessary to properly execute the provisions of said act as appears from the existing conditions in the Five Civilized Tribes, I have the honor to report as follows: The act of Congress referred to provides: The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to locate one Indian inspector in the Indian Territory, who may, under his authority and direction, perform any duties required of the Secretary of the Interior by law relating to affairs therein. The Five Civilized Tribes comprise the Seminoles, aggregating some 2,825 people; the Choctaws, 19, 406; the Chickasaws, 9,048; the Creeks, 14, 771, and the Cherokees, 34,461 in population. These various tribes have heretofore controlled their own affairs, conducting their governments, having their respective governors or principal chiefs, and other national or state officers, their legislatures or councils, enacting such laws governing their country, schools, and affairs generally as they deemed proper, acting independent of the United States Government. By their respective laws and treaties their lauds have been owned in common, citizens being authorized to use and rent to noncitizens as their laws permitted, in many instances comprising large areas. Numerous thriving towns throughout the Territory have been built upon the common property of the respective tribes, all noncitizens located therein being assessed for the privilege of residing therein or conducting business within the limits of the nation, and others also for introducing cattle, mining coal, cutting timber, etc., citizens being also required to remit a tax for each noncitizen to whom farms are rented. These various taxes are supposed to have amounted to considerable, but owing to the loose manner in which affairs have been conducted and records kept, it has been impossible to ascertain the aggregate amounts collected or accounted for. In many instances, however, it has been found that amounts due have not all been paid, but "compromised" with collectors and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.