Contested pre-emption cases received, decided, and
on hand, 94.

Cornoyer, N. A., Indian agent, annual report of,
Umatilla agency, Oregon, 574.

Courts in Arkansas and other States, act amend-
ing certain sections of Revised Statutes relating
to, 624,

Cragin, Hon. A. H., Hot Springs commission, xlvii,¦
807, 813.

Cravens, J. F., Indian agent, annual report of,
Cheyenne River agency, Dakota, 447.

Critchlow, J. J., Ludian agent, aunual report of,
Uintah Valley agency, Utah, 577

Crook, General, possesses the confidence of the
Sioux, iv.

Crow agency, Montana, annual report of Agent
Frost to Commissioner, 528; location of agency,
528; buildings, 529; condition of Indians, 529;
game and hunting grounds, 529; farming, 529;
disposition of the Crows, 529; schools, 530; the
Home, 530; civilization, 530; Christian influ-
ence, 530.

Crow Creek Indian agency, Dakota, annual report
of Agent Livingstone to Commissioner, 450; cen
sus-roll, 450; general behavior, 450; religious
progress, 450; farming, 450; schools, 450.
Crow reserve, Montana, executive orders enlarg.
ing and restoring, to the public domain, 639.
California, extension of public surveys in, 59; res
ervations of public lands for fishery purposes
in, 70; when school-sections pass to, 137.
Camp Verde reserve, Arizona, executive order
restoring, to the public domain, 632.
Capitol building and grounds, lii; Architect's re-
port, lii, 899; ventilation of House of Represent-
atives, lii; improvements in grounds recom-
mended by landscape architect, lii.

Carlin Farms reserve, Nevada, executive order
establishing, 637.

Casey, Col. T. L., United States engineer, commis-
sion ventilating House of Representatives, lii.
Catholics, Indian agencies assigned to, 714.
Census Office, lii.

Centennial International Exhibition, xlii, xliii; dis-
posal of the articles on exhibition, xli; awards
received. xlii; reports not published for want of
funds, xliii.

Centennial Exhibition, act making appropriation
for expenses of transportation, cars, &c., of arti-
cles exhibited at, 616.

Centra! Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company,
XXV-xxxi.

Central Indian superintendency, Lawrence, Kans.,
annual report of Superintendent Nicholson to
Commissioner, 511; limits of su; erintendency,
511; number of tribes, 511; schools, 512; Ponca
Indians, 511; Indian labor, 511; quality of sup
- plies, liquor-traffic, 513; laws needed, 513; pur-
chases for agencies, 513; location of office, 513.
Central Pacific Railroad Company, xxv-xxxiii.
Cherokee Indians, Eastern Band, act authorizing
Commissioner of Indian Affairs to receive lands
in payment of judgments to, 621.
Cherokee lands, act making appropriations for
commission to appraise, 619.
Cherokee lands in Indian Territory, 422.
Cherokee lands in North Carolina, survey of, 74.
Cherokee strip, act providing for sale of, 625.
Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency, sixth annual re-
port of Agent Miles to the Commissioner, 477;
census statistics, 478; depredations of horse-
thieves, 478; statistics of trade, 478; farming,
479; stock-raising, 479; transportation of sup
plies, 479; industrial school, 479; education, 480;
ration-supplies, 480.

Cheyenne River Indian agency, Dakota, annual
report of Agent Cravens to Commissioner, 447;
Indian troubles, 448; school operations, 449;
Board of Foreign Missions, 449; buildings, 449;
employés, 449; farming-operations 449; issues, 450.
Chippewa half-breed scrip locations, 41.
Chippewa Indian agency, Minnesota, annual re-
port of Agent King to Commissioner, 520; census
of Indians, 520; false reports of Pillagers, 520;
crops, 520; material prosperity, 520; delay of an-
nuity-payments, 521; improvements, 521; educa-
tion, 521; White Oak Point Chippewas, 521; san-
itary condition, 522; claim of the Pillagers, 522;
recapitulation, 522.

Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, annual
report of Agent Malau to the Commissioner,
600; annuity payment, 600; agriculture, 601;
schools, 602; recommendations, 602.
Chiricahua agency, act making appropriations for
removal of the Indians of, 616.

Chiricahua reserve, Arizona, Executive order re-
storing, to the public domain, 632.
Chittenden. G. B., 759.

Christian Unionists, Indian agencies assigned to,
714.

Cimarron agency, annual report of Agent Thomas
to Commissioner, 557; consolidation with Pueblo
agency, 557; number of Indians, 558; condition,
&c., 558.

Civil and military commission to Nez Percé In-
dians, report of, 607.

Civilization of Indians not impossible, 398; pre-
liminaries essential to, 398.

Dall, W. H., 796.

Danforth, E. H., Indian agent, annual report of
White River agency, Colorado, 442.

Danilson, W. H., Indian agent, anual report of
Fort Hall agency, Idaho, 474.

Davis, J., Indian agent, annual report of Southern
Apache agency, New Mexico, 558.

Dear aud dumb, report of Columbia Institution
for the, xlviii, 849.

Decisions affecting railroad grants: A valid pre-
emption claim subsisting excepts the tract of
land from the operation of the grant notwith-
standing patent was issued to railroad com-
pany, 78; construction of words "public
lands" as used in first section act April 21,
1876, 80; failure of party to appeal from action
of local officers is conclusive as against his
right, 81; act of April 21, 1876, does not deprive
a railroad company of right to relinquish under
act of 1874, 3; lands must have been actually
restored to bring a claim within the second pro-
viso of first section of act of April 21, 1876, 84;
homestead entry of record excepts tract covered
from operation of a railroad grant a taching dur-
ing its existence, 85; substitution for canceled
warrants not limited in time, 89; burden of prov
ing a fact lies upon the party asserting the
affirmative. 91; requirements of second section
act of April 21, 1876, 91; rights of aliens under
act of July 17, 1862, 92.

Decisions affecting pre-emption rights: In regard
to settlements on swamp-lands in Oregon, 96;
filing of declaratory statement prior to settle-
ment does not invalidate a claim in the absence
of an adverse right, 98; suspended entries, 100
additional rules, 101; under act of March 3, 1875,
grants must be forfeited and granted sections
restored to the public domain by reason of fail.
ure to build the road for whose benefit lands were
withdrawn, to entitle settler to relief, 102: bat
one pre-emption right is extended to the settler.
and only one declaratory statement can be legally
filed by the same party, 103.

Decisions affecting mining rights: Salt springs
and land adjacent are reserved from sale, 141:
coal-lands are considered as mineral lands, and
are subject to entry with cash only, 143; where
formal adverse claims are filed within the time
prescribed by the statutes, the merits of the case
must be determined in the courts, 127; an appl..
cation for patent is not relieved from suspension
by the abandonment of the portion claimed
adversely, unless the suit brought upon the al
verse claim has been determined, 192; suit must
be commenced within thirty days from filing the
adverse claim, 132; suit commenced by an ad
verse claimaut must be prosecuted with reason
able diligence, 132; publication of notice
be made in the paper published nearest the mine.

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Decisions affecting mining rights &c.-Cont'd.

133: adverse claims may be sworn to before any person authorized to administer oaths within the land-district where the claim is situated, 134; protestants have no right of appeal, 135: patents may issue for town sites upon mineral land, and for mining claims within town-sites, 136; schoolsections pass to the State of California upon survey thereof, if their mineral character is unknown at that date, 137; in Colorado do not pass to the State if they are known to contain valua ble deposits of coal, 138; in Nevada school-sections which are mineral in character do not pass to the State. 139.

Decisions in land cases. legislation recommended in regard to, 7; affecting homestead rights, 44; under the timber-culture laws, 47. Decision of United States Supreme Court affecting private land-claims in New Mexico, 51. Declaratory statements, filing of, prior to settlement, 98; legal filing of, only one allowed by same party, 103.

Deficiency appropriation, for Indian service, act making, 628; for survey of Indian reservations, act making, 627.

Denominations nominating Indian agents, list of, 642-651.

Denver Pacific Railroad Company, xxviii. Deposits by settlers to cover expense of survey, legislation recommended for repayment of, 7. Depredations of timber on public lands, 16. Desert-land act, operations thereunder, 41. Desert lands: They should be made a source of public revenue, xx; extract from the report of the government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad concerning, xx; recommendations in relation to, xxi; act pr viding for the sale of xxi; amendments of the act recommended, xxii, 32. Detroit arsenal grounds, 42.

Devil's Lake Indian agency, Dakota, annual report

of Agent McLaughlin to the Commissioner, 451; 1 cation, 451; tribes and number of Indians, 451; employés, 451; education, 451; sanitary condition, 451; missions, 452; agricultural advance. ment, 452; recommendations, 453. Directors of Columbia Hospital for Women, 873. District land-offices, legislation in regard to, 7. Dorsey, Rev. J. O., 797.

Draughting division of the General Land Office, work performed in, 107.

Duck Valley Reserve, Nevada, Executive order establishing, 638.

Dutton, Capt. Clarence, 789, 792, 795, 803.

Education, xli; correspondence of the office, xli; classification of statistics, xli; historical reviews of certain kinds of institutions, xli; its advancement in foreign countries, xli; number of circulars issued, xli; international conference on, circular, xli; manual of the common native trees of the United States, circular, xli; in China, circular, xli; in Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, Würtemberg, Portugal, &c., circular, xli; contributions to the history of medical education in the United States, circular, xli; work retarded by the removal of the office, xlii; more oflice-room required, xlii, liii: government aid to, xlii: statistics show improvement in, xlii; improved methods of instruction in public schools, xlii; of wo men more generally provided for, xlii. Education and civilization of Indians, 399; drawbacks to, 399; progress is made, 399; chief hone in the young, 399; r les compelling Indian children to attend school advised, 399; education of advanced scholars, 399; appropriation recommended, 400.

Eells, E., Indian agent, annual report of S'Kokomish agency, Washington Territory, 592. Effect of climate disastrous to northern Indians, 401.

Endlich, Dr. F. M., 760.

Entries: Under the homestead laws. 41; desert-land act, 41; timber-culture act, 40; pre-emption, suspended, 100.

Entries, ex parte, number of, received and disposed of, 94.

Episcopalians (Protestant) Indian agencies assigned to, 714.

Error in compilation of Revised Statutes, legisla tion recommended to correct, 5.

Error in description of grant to Holy Cross Mission under act of March 3, 1875, legislation recommended to correct, 7.

Evangelical Lutherans, Indian agencies assigned to, 714.

Exhibit of progress of land surveys since 1866, 68. Ex parte entries, 94.

Expenses of Indian Department for 1876-77, art making appropriations for, 621; for 1877-'78, 626. Flandreau Indian agency, Dakota, annual report of Agent Williamson to Commissioner, 454; education, 454; review of agency, 454; crops, 457. Flathead Indian agency, Montana, annual report of Ageut Ronan to Commissioner, 530; intelligence and civilization, 531; the Kootenais, 531; the Pend d'Oreilles, 531; location of agency, 532; Indian police, 532; sanitary condition, 532. Florida, extension of surveys in, 60; reservations of public lands for military purposes in, 69. Food for the Indian, 400.

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Fort Berthold Indian agency, Dakota, annual report of Agent Alden to Commissioner, 455; names of tribes, 455; condition and habits, 455; prospects of civilization, 455; farming-interests, 456; brick manufacture, 456; school, 456; ings, 456; missionary work, 456. Fort Hall Indian agency, report of A gent Danilson to the Commissioner, 474; number of Indians, 474; subsistence, 474; number of Indians engaged in farming, 474; condition of the agency-farm, 475; suggestions in regard to buildings, 475; mills, 475; shooting of R. Boyd and (). James, 475. Fort Peck Indian agency, Montaua, annual report of Agent Bird to Commissioner, 533; location of agency, 533; number of Indians, 533; Indian reservation, 533; farming, 534; civilization, 534; Indian labor, 534; houses, 535; schools and edu cation, 535; buildings, 536; sanitary condition, 536; missionary work, 536.

Fort Stanton Indian reserve, New Mexico. Executive order establishing, 638.

Free, T. S., Indian agent, annual report of Sac and Fox agency, Iowa, 509.

Freedman's Hospital and Asylum, report of, xlix, 859.

Free Will Baptists, Indian agencies assigned to, 714.
French, W. H., jr., act for the relief of, 629.
Friends, Indian agencies assigned to, 714.
Friends (Orthodox), Indian agencies assigned to,

714.

Frost, G. W., Indian agent, annual report of Crow
agency, Montana, 528.
Gallatin, Hon. A., 793.
Gannett, Henry, 756.
Gatschet, A. S, 797.

Gasmann, J. G., Indian agent, annual report of
Yankton agency, Dakota, 471.

General Land Office, legislation recommended for reorganization of clerical force in, 1. Geographical and geological survey of the Rocky Mountain region, by Maj. J. W. Powell, xlv, 789; field-season of 1876, 789: publications issued in 1877, xlv; number of field-parties organized, 789; area embraced in expansion of primary triangulation, 789; area explored by topographic parties, xlvi, 790; division of the area for mapping purposes, 791; methods and objects of suivey, 791; geological work by Mr. Gilbert, 791; geological work by Captain Dutton, 792; ethnographic work in Rocky Mountain region, 793; photographic work, 793; botany, 793: office work of 1876-77, 794; topographic work, 794; instruments, 794; report on geology of Henry Mount ains. 795; reports prepared on ethnographic work, 796; tribes of Alaska (Dall), 796; tribes of Oregon and Washington Territory (Gibbs), 796; tribes of California (Powers), 796; Ponka language (Dorsey), 797; languages of various North American tribes (Gatschet), 797; monograph on the customs and rites of sepulture (Yarrow), 797; introduction to the study of the Indian languages, 797; field-season of 1877, xlv, 798; triangulation by Professor Thompson, 798; topographic work by Mr. Graves, 798; topographic work by Mr. Renshawe, 799; hypsometric work, 800; cartography, 801; classification of lands, 801-805; geological work by Mr. Gilbert, 803; geological work by Captain Dutton, 80; geo. logical illustration, 804.

Geological and geographical survey of the Terri-
tories, under Prof. F. V. Hayden, 755; prelimi-
nary report, 1877, 755; line of survey, xliii, 76,
755; area explored by the survey, xliii; primary
triangulation party, 755; Green River division,
756; area explored by Green River division, 756;
stations located by Green River division, 757;
agricultural advantages of Green River divis
ion, 756, 757; geology of Green River division's
survey, 757-759; Sweetwater division, 759; area
explored by Sweetwater division, 763; stations
located by Sweetwater division, 760; geology of
Sweetwater area, 760-763; Teton division, 763;
area explored by Teton division, 763; stations
located by Teton division, 763; danger from In-
dians, 764; meteorological observations, 764;
geology of area surveyed by Teton division,
765-778; critical paleontological work of survey
by Dr. C. A. White, 779; new fossils collected,
xliv, 781; fossil insects discovered by S. H.
Scudder, 782; insects discovered by Prof. Jo-
seph Leidy, 782; botany of the survey, 783; Sir
Joseph D. Hooker, director of the Gardens of
Kew, England, 783; Prof. Asa Gray. Cambridge,
Mass., 783; ruins of New Mexico and Arizona,
785; models of ruins made by Mr. Jackson, pho.
tographer, 785; materials for map of classifica-
tion of lands, xliv; geology of the Rocky Mount-
ains, xliv; publications in 1876, xliv; publica.
tions in preparation, xliv; appropriations re-
quired, xlv.

Gheen, L. A., farmer in charge, annual report of
Western Shoshone Indians, Nevada, 547.
Gibbs, George, 796.

Gilbert, G. K., 789, 791, 795, 801.

Godding, Dr., superintendent Insane Asylum, 1.
Godfroy, F. C., Indian agent, annual report of Mes-
calero agency, New Mexico, 550.

Government directors of the Union Pacific Rail-
road, report of the, xxxv.

Government Hospital for the Insane, xlix; change
of management, 1.

Grande Ronde agency, Oregon, sixth annual report
of Agent Sinnott to the Commissioner, 565; pros-
perous condition of the Indians, 565; mills, 565;
schools, 565; missionary work, 565; Indians of
Alsea agency, 565; rumors as to removal, 565;
sanitary condition, 566; appropriation needed,

566.

Grant to Holy Cross Mission, 7.

Grants to States and corporations for railroad and
wagon road purposes, tabular statement exhibit-
ing, 188.

Graves, W. H., 789, 798.

Gray, Prof. Asa, 783.

Great Nemaha Indian agency, Nebraska, annual
report of Agent Kent to Commissioner, 537; con-
dition of Indians, 537; houses, 537; survey of
reservation needed, 537; Indian police, 537; trib-
al funds, 537; industrial schools of Iowas, 538;
Sacs and Foxts of the Missouri, 538; sugges
tions, 538.

Green Bay Indian agency, Wisconsin, third annual
report of Agent Bridgman to the Commissioner;
598; Oneidas, 598; agricultural prospects, 598;
schools, 598; temperance, 599; Stockbridge
tribe, 599; Menomonees, 599; education, 599;
progress, 600.

Gregory, H. E., Indian agent, annual report of
Lower Brulé agency, Dakota, 457.

Griest, J. W., Indian agent, annual report of Otoe
agency, Nebraska, 541.

Hamilton, J. G., Indian agent, annual report of
Sisseton agency, Dakota, 459.

Hammond, J. H, Indian superintendent, annual
report of Northern superintendency, 444.

Haworth, I. M, Indian agent, annual report of
Kiowa and Comanche agency, Indian Territory,
4-3.

Hayden, Prof. F. V., superintendent United States
Geological Survey, xliii.

Hearings to establish the character of lands, 125.
Hearn, James A., act making appropriation for
amount due, 616.

Henry, G. A., Indian agent, annual report of Quin-
aielt agency, Washington Territory, 590.
Henry, Prof. J., commission ventilating House of
Representatives, lii.

Hillers, J. K., 793, 803.

Historical and statistical table of the States and
Territories, 216.

Holmes, W. H., 784.

Homestead rights, operations under the laws re-
lating to, 41; decisions affecting, 44; laws, legis-
lation recommended in regard to the, 34.
Hooker, Joseph D., 783.

Hoopa Valley Indian agency, California, annual
report of agent to Commissioner, 431; state of res-
ervation, 431; number of Indians, 431; recommen-
dations, 431.

Hoopa Valley reserve, California, Executive order
defining the boundaries of, 633.

Hot Springs, table of, 816.

Hot Springs commission, xlvii, 807; result of sur-
veys, xlvii; number of claimants, xlviii; super-
intendent of reservation, xlviii.

Hot Springs Indians declared renegades, vii; raids
by the, vii.

Hot Springs reserve restored to the public domain,
vii, 638.

Howard, E. A., Indian agent, annual report of
Ponca agency, Dakota, 492.

Hughes, W. T., Indian agent, annual report of
Standing Rock agency, Dakota, 467.
Huntington, C. A., Indian agent, annual report of
Neah Bay reservation, Washington Territory,
583.

Huntington, J. W. P., act for the relief of securi-
ties of, 629.

Idaho, extension of public surveys in, 56.
Indian, Cherokee, lands in North Carolina, survey
of, 70; scrip locations, 41; reservation, Allegany,
survey of, 71; Sac and Fox, and Otoe and Mis-
souria in Kansas and Nebraska, 43.
Indian affairs, iii; the general condition of, not
satisfactory, viii.

Indians, the instability of treaties with, ix; good
faith should be kept with them, x; hunting
should be discouraged, x; should be supplied
with food, x; ought to be concentrated, xi; should
be encouraged in agriculture and stock-raising.
xi; heads of families should have small tracts of
land, xi; some should have the benefits of the
homestead act, xi; some should be invested with
the privileges of citizenship, xi; should be or
ganized into a police force, xi; improvement in
their schools recommended, xi.

Indian agencies, location of, 715-717; nepotism at,
403.

Indian agents, lists of, 715-717; recommendations
as to system of payment of, 402; new classifica
tion desired, 403; increase of their salaries rec-
ommended, xiv; act making appropriation for
payment of moneys certified to be due, 616.
Indian Commissioners, Board of, 714.

Indian labor to be employed as much as possible,
xii.

Indian policy, viii; compared with that prevailing
in the British Possessions. ix.

Indian service, the temptation to dishonesty in, x:
what can be done to improve it, x; suspicions of
fraudulent practices in, well founded, xii; dis-
honest employés and contractors to be punished,
xiii; the present methods insufficient to prevent
frauds, xiii; a secret-service force required, xiii.
Indian Territory, removals to, 401.

Insane, Government Hospital for the, 879.
Investigation of frauds in the Indian service, xii.
Irvine, A. G., Indian agent, annual report of Na-
vajo agency, Arizona, 554.

Irwin, James, Indian agent, annual report of Red
Cloud agency, Nebraska, 458.
Jackson, W. H., 785.

Jenney, Walter P., 804.

Jones, H. W., Indian agent, annual report of Qua
paw agency, Indian Territory, 498.

Judicial tribunal, legislation for the establishment
of a. 4.

Judith Basin reserve, Montana, executive order
restoring to the public domain, 640.
Kansas Indian agency, annual report of Agent
Newlin to Commissioner. 514; jurisdiction of
agency, 514; Pottawatomies, 514; Kickapoos,
515; land reserved by treaty, 515; ill-feeling of
factions, 515; failure of crops, 515; school, 516:
moral and religious culture, 516; system of
thorough farming, 516; tribal government, 516;
religious and educational interests, 516; timber

Kansas Indian agency, &c --Continned.

on reserve, 516; suggestion on holding lands in
severalty, 517.

Kansas Indian lands, act providing for the sale of,

617.

Kansas Pacific Railroad Company, xxv, xxxvi;

placed in the bauds of a receiver, XXXV; its
failure owing to the action of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, xxxv.

Kelly, Gen. B. F., superintendent Hot Springs res
ervation, xlviii.

Kent, M. B., Indian agent, annual report of Great
Nemaha agency, Nebraska 537.

King, H. G.. Indian agent, annual report of Chip-
pewa agency, Minnesota, 520.

Kiowa and Comanche agency, Indian Territory,
annual report of Agent Haworth to Commis
sioner, 483; unfavorable season, 483; cattle
issue, 483; school. 483; church attendance, 484;
houses, 485, buildings, 485.

Klamath Indian agency. Oregon, first annual re-
port of Agent Roork to the Commissioner, 567;
population, 567; education, 567; mechanical
arts, 567; agriculture, 567; religious interests,
567; health, 568; prospects, 568; relations with
government, 568.

Klamath Indian reservation, 419.

Klamath Indians, adjustment of differences with
government advised, 420.

Labor. Indian, despised, 400; suggestions as to
overcoming their repugnance for it, 400.
Lakes: Salt, 758, 802; Bear, 759; Gray's,763; Yellow-
stone, 764; Lewis, 764; Shoshone, 764; Utah, 792.
Land-grant approvals, 40.

Land-grants to Indians recommended, 461.
Lands, public, in the Southern States, action of

office in regard to, 49; hearings to establish the
character of, 125.

Lapsed land-grants, xxiv; the lands should be re-
stored to the market, xxiv.

Lapsed railroad-grants, legislation recommended in
regard to, 12.

Larrabee, C. F., 818.

Law for the Indians, evils resulting from the ab-
sence of, described by Bishop Hare, 398; a judi-
cial system desirable, 398.

Law library for use of General Land Office, legisla
tion recommended in regard to, 3.
Lawrence, A. G., iv.

Lawrence, Dr. George W., 812.

Laws and regulations relating to mining rights, 109.
Laws for the government of the Indians, 461.
Laws relating to public lands, legislation recom

mended for the codification and revision of, 4
Lee, G. W., Indian agent, annual report of Macki-
naw agency, Michigan, 517.

Lee, I. M., Indian agent, annual report of Spotted
Tail agency, Nebraska, 461.
Leidy, Prof. J., 782.

Lemhi reserve, Icaho, executive order establish-
ing. 637.

Liabilities of the United States to Indian tribes,
statement of, 652-562.

Lightner, I, farmer in charge, annual report of
Santee Indian agency, Nebraska, 543.
Livingston, Henry F., Indian agen, annual report
of Crow Creek agency, Dakota 450.
Location of Indian agencies, 715-717.
Location of patented mining-claims, 145.
Lode-claims, status of, located prior to May 10, 1872,
116.

Lode or vein claims, manner of proceeding to ob
tain title to, 117.

Lodes or veins, patents for, heretofore issued, 118.
Los Pinos Indian agency, Colorado, annual report
of agent to Commissioner, 439; buildings, 439;
education, 439; prejudice against manual labor,
439; change in issue of rations, 439; farming
operations, 440; sanitary condition. 440; difti-
culties contended with. 440; recommendation
in regard to the relinquishment of a part of the
reservation, 441.

Lost corners, re-establishment of, 76.

Louisiana, extension of public surveys in, 61.
Lower Brulé Ind an agency, Dakota, annual re-
port of Agent Gregor to Commissioner, 457:
number of Indians, 457; general conduct, 47;
disadvantages, 457; buildings, 458; cattle corral,
458; schools, 45; church, 458.

Lutherans, Evangelical, Indian agencies assigned
to, 714.

McKee, R., act for the relief of, 629.
Mackinaw Indian agency, Michigan, annual re-
port of Agent Lee to Commissioner, 517; draw-
backs to agricultural pursuits, 517; dissatisfac-
tion of tribes, 518; productions, 517; religion,
517; treaty of 1855, 518; character of Indians,
519; educational interests, 519; statistics of
produce, 519; Pottawatomies of Huron, 519;
condition of Indians, 519.

McLaughlin, James, Indian agent, annual report
of Devil's Lake agency, Dakota, 451.
Mahau, I. L., Indian agent, annual report of the
Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 600.
Malheur Indian agency, Oregon, annual report of
Agent Rinehart to the Commissioner, 568; loca-
tion of agency, 568; Snakes, 568; Pi-Utes, 569;
Indian labor, 569; farms, 569; Idaho Indian
war, 569; report of Special Agent Turner, 570;
appropriations, 570; suggestions as to policy,
571; schools, 571; issues. 572; spoliation claims,
572; Crickets, 572; morals, 572.

Malheur reserves, Oregon, executive orders en-
larging and restoring to the public domain, 640.
Mallery, Col. G., 797.

Mallet, E., Indian agent, annual report of Tulalip
agency, Washington Territory, 593.

Marston, S. W., Indian agent, annual report of
Union agency, Indian Territory, 503.
Mason, Prof. O. T., 797.

Menomonee reservation, act authorizing sale of
logs of, 615.

Mescalero Indian agency, New Mexico second
annual report of Ageut Godfroy to Commis-
sioner, 550; agency and reservation, 550; diffi
culty of convincing Indians of rights of settlers,
551; necessity of controlling trade, 551; sug.
gestions as to removal of agency, 551; buildings,
551; progress, 551; branches of industry, 552;
agriculture, 552; education, 552; sanitary con-
dition, 553; raids, 553; relations with the mili-
tary, 553; recommendations for stopping illegal
traffic, 554.

Metallic cartridges. resolution prohibiting the
supply of, to h stile Indians, 628.

Methodists. Indian agencies assigned to, 714.
Michigan certain lands in, act extending time for
homestead entries upon, 617.

Miltary bounty-land-warrant division: Summary
of work and condition of bounty-land business,
104; district in Ohio, 106; reservations aban-
doned and useless, 42.

Milroy, R. H., Indian agent, annual report of Pu-
yallup agency, &c., Washington Territory, 585.
Mile-sites, 123.

Miles, J. P., Indian agent, annual report of Chey-
enne and Arapahoe agency, 477.

Mineral lands, operations under the mining laws,
108: open to exploration, occupation, and pur
chase, 116; lode claims, status of, located prior
to May 10, 1872, 116; lode or veins, patents for,
heretofore issued, 117; tunnel rights, 118; vein
r lode claims, manner of proceeding to obtain
title to, 119; adverse claims, 121; placer ground,
quantity of, subject to location, 122; mill-sites,
123; hearings to establish the character of lands,
124.

Mineral resources of the United States, act of Con-
gress in relation to the, 115, 116.

Mining claims, appointment of deputy surveyors
of, charges for surveys and applications, fees of
registers and receivers, 124; patents may issue
for, within town-3ites, 136.

Mining claimants, proof of citizenship of, 124.
Mining interests in Yellowstone National Park,
841.

Mining laws of the United States and regulations
thereunder, 109.

Mining rights, decisions affecting, 127.
Minnesota, extension of public surveys in, €2.
Mission Indian agency, California, annual report
of agent to Commissioner, 431; number of In-
dians, 432; condition, 432; encroachments of
whites, 433; suggestions and recommendations,
433.

Mission Indian reserves, California, executive or-
der establishing, 634, 635; executive order restor
ing, to the public domain, 634.

Monteith, J. B., Indian agent, annual report of Nez Percé agency, Idaho, 476.

Morford, W. E., Indian agent, annual report of Colorado River agency, Arizona, 427. Mountains: Rocky, 761, 779, 783; Uintah, 781-785, 791; Wind River, 756-761, 778; Bear River, 757; Pierre's Hole, 764; Grosventre Range, 764; Salt River, 764; Teton, 764; Leidy Group, 764, 776; Sheridan Group, 764; Owl, 764; Caribou Range, 765; Blackfoot, 765; Putnam Range, 765; Wyoming, 775; Mount Hayden, 772; Mount Bainbridge, 766; Fremont's Peak, 762; Higham's Peak, 767; To-owo-tu Pass, 777; Crowheart Butte, 778; Seminole Hills, 760; Henry, 790, 791; Black Hills, 804; Wasatch Range, 792, 800; Book Cliffs, 798.

Navajo Indian agency, Arizona, annual report of Agent Irvine to the Commissioner, 554; number of Indians, 554; occupation, 354; agricult ure, 554; education, 555; recommendation in relation to, 555, 556; buildings, 555; difficulties, 556; condition of Moqui Pueblos, 556; recommendation for removal, 555; suggestion as to reservation, 556.

Naval monument, 907.

Neah Bay Indian reservation, Washington Territory, fourth annual report of Agent Hunting ton to the Commissioner, 583; improvement of Indians, 583; school, 583; tide-lands, 584; agriculture, 584.

Nebraska, extension of public surveys in, 58; reservations of public lands in, for military pur poses, 69.

Nevada, extension of public surveys in, 60; school sections mineral in character do not pass to the State of, 139.

Nevada Indian agency. third annual report of Agent Barnes to the Commissioner, 546; location of reservations, 546; agricultural prospects, 546; improvement in habits, condition, &c, 546; Indians congregating along the line of railroad, 546 Washoe Indians, 547; schools and missionary work; 547; sanitary condition, 547. New Mexico, legislation recommended in regard to settlement of private land-claims in, 26; extension of public surveys in, 66; decision of United States Supreme Court affecting private landclaims in, 51.

New York Indian agency, New York, eighth annual report of Agent Sherman to Commissioner, 558; education, 558; Allegany reservation, 559; Massachusetts's claim to lands, 559; pre-emption right of Ogden Land Company, 559; present pop. ulation, 560; suggestion as to amendment of act of February 19, 1875, 560; Cattaraugus reservation, 560; treaties made by Senecas, 560; prog. ress, 560; Iroquois Agricultural Society, 560; temperance convention of Six Nations, 561; Thomas Asylum, 561; Cornplanter reservation, 561; Tonawanda reservation, 561; schools, 561; annuities, &c., 561; Oil-Spring reservation, 562; treaty of Big Tree, 562; Tuscaroras, 562; their removal from Oneida, 563; Onondagas, 563; number of Indians, 563; size of reservation, 563; religions progress, 563; Oneidas, 564; Cayugas, 564; Saint Regis Indians, 564; increase, 564; gov. ernment, 564.

Newlin, M. H., Indian agent, annual report of Kansas agency, 514.

Newton, Henry A., 804.

Nez Percé Indians, removal to Indian Territory,

409.

Nez Percé Indian agency, annual report of Agent Monteith to the Commissioner, 476; improve. ment of the Indians living on the reserve, 476; educational matters, 476; progress in mechanical skill and building, 477; condition of the mills, 477; appropriations inadequate to the needs, 477; removal of some of the bands interrupted by hos tilities. 477; friendliness of the reserve Indians, 477; religious progress, 477.

Nez Percé Indians, civil and military commission to report of, 607; meeting at Lapwai, Idaho, 607;

Nez Percé Indians, &c.-Continued. description of Chief Joseph, 607; his right to Wallowa Valley, 608; answer of commission to his claim, 608; answer of Joseph thereto, CO× ; cause of trouble with non-treaty Indians, 609 ; recommendations for the settlement of, 609; non-compliance by government with treaty obligations, 610; consolidation of agencies, 610; Colville agency, 612; United States law, 612; recapitulation, 612.

Nez Perce war, iii, vi, 36, 405; canses of, 406; history of, 407; might have been avoided, vi; captives of, moved eastward, vi.

Nichols, Dr. C. H., Superintendent Insane Asylum. I.

Nicholson, William, Indian superintendent. arnual report of Central Superintendency, Lawrence, Kans., 511.

Northern Cheyenne and Arapahoes, removal of,

415.

Northern Indian Superintendency, Dakota, annual report of Superintendent Hammond to Commissioner, 444; location of agencies, 444; missionary work, 444; drawbacks to civilization, 446; suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of the Dakota Indians, 447. Northern Pacific Railroad Company, xxvii. Northwestern Improvement Company, act authorizing the, to improve the Oconto River, 619. Ohio, Virginia military district in, patents issued for, applications on file for lands within, 106. Olmstead, F. L., landscape architect, lii. Omaha Indian agency, Nebraska, annual report of

Agent Vore to Commissioner, 539; applications for employment, 539; condition of Indians, 540; prospects of crop, 540; purchases, 540; improveinent, 540; schools, 540; missions, 540; needed legislation, 540.

Oregon, extension of public surveys in the State of, 64; decision in regard to settlement on swamplands in the State of, 96.

Osage Indian agency, Indian Territory, annual report of Agent Beede to the Commissioner, 456; Osages, 486; crimes on reservation, 486; irresponsible traders, 486; prospects of hostilities, 487; agriculture, 487: statistics, 488; government, 488; membership rights, 4-9: half-breeds. 489; education, 489; dissatisfaction, 490; Kaws, 490.

Osage Indians, act authorizing expenditure of certain funds belonging to, 624.

Osage Jands in Kansas, act providing for sale of, 620.

Otoe and Missouria Indian reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, 43, 421.

Otoe and Missouria tribes, act providing for sale of portion of reservation of, 623.

Otoe Indian agency, Nebraska, annual report of Agent Griest to Commissioner, 541; progress, 541; buildings, 541; purchase of supplies, 541; success of enterprise. 541; agricultural operations, 542; removal, 542; industrial school, 542; sanitary condition, 542.

Otoe reservation, act making appropriation for survey of, 619.

Pacific Railroad companies, what they have paid the government, xxviii; their ab lity to reimburse the government, xxxi-xxxiii; their sys tem of accountability incomplete, xxxiii-xxx monthly reports necessary, xxxiv; a special bureau for supervising their accounts recommended, xxxv.

Pacific Railroad sinking-fund, xxx.

Packard, Prof. A. S., Rocky Mountain lccnsts commission, xlvi.

Pagosa Hot Springs of Colorada, xlviii.
Parker, Richard C., acting agent, annual report of
Hoopa Valley Indian agency, 431.

Patent Office, xxxvi; its business during the fiscal year, xxxvi; the appropriation for it insufficient, xxxvii: photolithographing nearly completed, xxxvii; increase of revenue from trade-marks, xxxvii; fees for trade-marks should be paid as in other cases, xxxvii; a digest of patents granted recommended, xxxvii: an appropriation ne ded for its library, xxxvii; duplicates of British patents received, xxxvii; additional office-room demanded, xxxvii.