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1 Sioux Indians: Message from the President of the United States 1 (1876)

handle is hein.amindian/sxin0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 44TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTAT1VES. Ex. Doc. 1st Session. No. 145. SIOUX INDIANS. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING, In response to a resolution of the House of February 3, a report of Lieu- tenant-Colonel Merritt, of the Ninth Cavalry, charged by the Secretary of War with the duty of making inquiries into the causes of the exhaustion of the appropriation for the support and subsistence of Sioux Indians for the present fiscal year. MARCH 23, 1876.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. To the Rouse of Representatives : In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the, 3d of February last, requesting the President to require a competent experienced military officer of the United States to execute the duties of an Indian agent so far as to repair to the Red Cloud agency, and, in his discretion, other Sioux agencies, with instructions to inquire into the causes of the exhaustion of the appropriation for the subsistence and support of the Sioux Indians for the present fiscal year ; as also his opinion as to whether any further and what amount should be appro- priated for the subsistence and support of said Indians for the remainder of the current fiscal year, I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt, of the Ninth Cavalry, who was charged by the Secretary of War with the duty of making the inqui- ries called for by said resolution. U. S. GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 23, 1876. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, March 22, 1876. SIR : I have the honor to return, herewith, the House resolution of February 3, 1876, requesting the President of. the United States to re- quire a military officer to investigate the cause of the exhaustion of the appropriation for the subsistence and support of the Sioux Indians for the current fiscal year, left by you at the Department, with copy of the report of the officer assigned to this duty (Lieut. Col. W. Merritt, Ninth

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