TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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[Endorsed] II' 10 A. G. 0. Tex Indian depredations to Novb 1 75
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Wm Steels Adgt Gen'l
No. 236
LAW PROHIBITING INDIAN MIGRATION INTO TEXAS [1875-1876] See Statutes of the United States of America- passed at First Session of the 44th Congress. 1875-'76- page 195.
Arapaho, Cheyenne, Apache, Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita.
For Subsistence of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Apache, Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita, and transportation of the Same, who have been collected upon the reserevations Set apart for their use and occupation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the interior is hereby directed and required to prohibit the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Kickapoo, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, and bands affiliated with them, from crossing Red River from Fort Sill reservation into Texas, and rations shall only be issued to said Indians for only one week at a time, and then only to Such of them as shall be present. And no arms or ammunition shall be issued, Sold, or given to any of the In- dians above named; and all arms and ammunition shall be taken from any Indian who may be proven to have committed any depredation on the whites or friendly Indians. [Endorsed] Copy of Law prohibiting Indians from coming into Texas
No. 237 REPORT OF INDIAN DEPREDATIONS
Austin Tex. Jany 1. 1878.
Depredations by Indians.
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