No. 1. REPORT of the amount of funds remitted to agents and disbursing officers for the expenses of Indian emigration during the first three quarters of the present year, and the amount for which accounts have been rendered for settlement by each, during the same period. [ Doc. No. 2. ] Lieutenant Edward Deas 4,000 00 3,773 93 860 58 Philip Campbell 103 50 103 50 A. Kennerly 206 93 206 93 William Marshall 433 75 433 75 A. C. Pepper 1,089 00 1,089 00 Captain J.B. F. Russell 39,543 00 8,551 99 30,991 01 Remarks. This large balance was occasioned by the failure of the Seminoles to remove at the time first appointed. It is now in the course of expenditure, as the whole tribe will leave Florida in January, 1836. A small balance due this officer. This balance the officer has been directed to deposite in bank, to the credit of the Treasurer. The large balance against Captain Russel will speedily be reduced. His third quarter's accounts are not yet received, in consequence of his being on his way with a party of Indians." 8,939 96 The expenditures in this case have been less than anticipated when the remittance was made-the Pottawatamies of the Logansport agency having failed to remove at the time calculated upon. 14,156 14 3,544 00 This balance the officer has been directed to deposite in bank, to the credit of the The expenditures of this gentleman, on account of the exploring expedition from The column of "amounts remitted" includes the balances that stood against the agents at the commencement of the year, with the transfer from other agents; thus, the true balances on the 30th of September, 1835, are above exhibited. No. 2. REPORT of the number of Indians removed since the 30th of September, 1834, distinguishing the different tribes, the whole number of emigrant Indians west of the Mississippi river, the quantity of land assigned to each, and its situa tion; the number of Indians east of the Mississippi yet to be removed under treaty stipulations, with the names and numbers of the native tribes west of the Mississippi. Native tribes, and their numbers, resident west of the Mississippi. *The agent has reported these Indians at upwards of two thousand. No. 3. Articles of agreement entered into this seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, between George Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence, under the authority of the President of the United States, on the part of the United States, and John W. A. Sanford, Alfred Iverson, John D. Howell, Benjamin Marshall, Lather Blake, and Stephen M. Ingersoll, of Georgia, to be known in said articles as and acting under the firm of John W. A. Sanford and Company. This agreement witnesseth that the said George Gibson, for and on behalf of the United States, and the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, for themselves, their heirs, executors, and administrators, have agreed, and by these presents do mutually covenant and agree: I. That the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, their heirs, &c. shall remove the Creek Indians, occupants of the Creek nation, in the State of Alabama, from said nation to a point in the new country allotted to the Creeks west of the Territory of Arkansas, and within twenty miles of Fort Gibson, to wit, men, women, and children, with their slaves, and their goods and chattels, as hereinafter provided, in manner and form and for the consideration specified in these articles of agreement. II. That the said John W. A. Sanford and Company shall collect the Indians together at convenient times and places; and that the Indians shall be subsisted by them from the day they commence to march to the place of assemblage. III. That the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, their heirs, &c. will despatch to the new country aforesaid parties of one thousand Indians, or more, under the conduct of such agents as the said John W. A. Sanford and Company may deem it proper to appoint; the Indians having first been carefully enrolled. IV. That the following shall be the rations and the kind and quantity of transportation to which the Indians, &c. shall be entitled: The ration of bread shall be one pound of wheat flour, Indian meal, or hard bread, or three-fourths of a quart of corn; the meat ration shall be one pound of fresh, or three-quarters of a pound of salt meat or bacon; and with fresh meat, two quarts of salt to every hundred rations. The transportation shall be one six-horse wagon and fifteen hundred pounds of baggage to from fifty to eighty persons. The provisions and transportation shall be the best of their kind. The average daily travel shall not exceed twelve miles. V. That the provisions shall be issued daily, if practicable, and not less frequently than every other day, as well whilst at rest as during the travel, until the day inclusive of arrival at the point of destination west; and that there shall be established, within three months, points upon the entire route westward at which the provisions are to be issued. VI. That the sick, those enfeebled from age or other cause, and young children, shall be transported in wagons or on horseback; that those who may be pronounced unable to proceed may be left on the route at some proper place, and under the care of some proper person, at the expense of the United States. VII. That the Indian ponies shall be given from the day of starting westward one-half gallon of corn each, provided such disposition in the active operations of the removal may be made of them, not to include the hauling of the wagons before mentioned, as the said John W. A. Sanford and Company may deem proper; but that they will not be separated from the company to which their owners are respectively attached, nor compelled to carry other baggage or persons than those belonging to the family of their owners. VIII. That the said John W. A. Sanford and Company shall be entitled to twenty dollars a head for each person transported from the Creek nation to the place of delivery before mentioned; and for all persons who may die or be necessarily left on the way, as authorized by article VI of this contract, an amount in proportion to the distance travelled; provided that the evidence herein required in such cases of arrival westward, &c. is furnished to the proper department. The amount due to the said John W. A. Sanford and Company to be promptly paid at such points as may be previously indicated by them, and under instructions to be hereafter given by the War Department. IX, That the said John W. A. Sanford and Company shall not coerce the Indians to remove, all threats and violence towards them being prohibited; and that they shall be treated by the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, their agents, &c. with lenity, forbearance, and humanity. X. That the United States will furnish the following agents : 1st. A superintendent, whose duty it shall be to remain within the limits of the Creek nation during the proper season for operations under this contract, for the purpose of seeing that its stipulations are fulfilled by the parties thereto. He shall receive his instructions from the Commissary General of Subsistence, and will not be accountable in any way for his acts to the said John W. A. Sanford and Company; and that such superintendent shall decide whether fifty or eighty, or any intermediate number of Indians ought, consistent with the health and comfort of the Indians, to be assigned to each wagon. 2d. Two or more military agents, one of whom shall accompany each party west. The duties of these agents shall be to attend particularly to the treatment received by the Indians; their rations, transportation: to remonstrate against any course of conduct on the part of the agents of the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, inconsistent with the letter and spirit of this contract; and to protest to the proper department, and, if a remedy can be found in a pecuniary expenditure, to make it, which if approved by the Secretary of War, shall be deducted from the payments to be made under this contract to the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, their heirs, &c. 3. A surgeon for each emigrating party, whose duty it shall be to attend to the sick thereof. He shall also be the arbiter in cases of difference of opinion between the agents of the United States and the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, their heirs, &c. relative to the quality of provisions, the time and place of issuing the same, and the time of starting and stopping on the daily travel; and he shall also decide whether invalids may be left on the way, and take care that they are provided for agreeably to article VI of this contract, and enter upon the roll the time and place of such occurrence, with the date of decease of all Indians who may die on the route. 4th. A disbursing agent in the new Creek county west of the Mississippi, whose duty it shall be to receive the Indians as they arrive, to muster them, and to certify upon the roll presented to him by the agent of the said John W. A. Sanford and Company, their heirs, &c. the result of that muster: said muster to take place on the day of arrival (if practicable) at the point of destination. |