ciency, to suggest that the enclosed section be added to your loan bill to be presented to Congress. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. JOHN J. CISCO, Assistant Treasurer. SECTION. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, in lieu of the clerks heretofore authorized by law for the office of the assistant treasurer at New York, he be authorized to appoint, with the approbation of the President of the United States, one chief clerk at a salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, one clerk at three thousand dollars, one clerk at two thousand five hundred dollars, one clerk at two thousand dollars, two clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three clerks at one thousand five hundred dollars each, one messenger at nine hundred dollars, and two watchmen at five hundred and fifty dollars each, per annum. OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT TREASURER UNITED STATES. St. Louis, Missouri, May 9, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to request that at the coming session of Congress you will recommend to the proper committees that a bill be introduced, with a view to its passage, to increase the salary of the clerk of this office to eighteen hundred dollars per year. For several reasons for making the increase, I would respectfully refer you to the letter of my predecessor on retiring from the office. By reference to the list of salaries of clerks in the different offices of assistant treasurers of the United States, you will see that the lowest clerk in the New York office is allowed three hundred dollars more per year than the clerk here, notwithstanding his responsibility must be much less. I am now paying my clerk three hundred dollars per year out of my own salary, and his engagement to remain at this rate is only temporary. As the responsibility of the clerk here is great, his salary should be proportionate, so as to secure, permanently, the services of one who shall not only be strictly honest, but who has a proper knowledge of the duties of the office. To effect this I think the salary should be not less than eighteen hundred dollars per year. Considering the cost of living, this would be equal to about fifteen hundred dollars in New York, Boston, or Philadelphia. The clerk I now employ is under bond to me of twenty thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties. This is the bond given by tellers in banks in this city, whose salaries range from fifteen hundred to twenty-eight hundred dollars per year. To relieve me from paying part of my own salary to my clerk, the law authorizing the increase should date back in its effect to the time I entered upon the duties of my office. I herewith enclose an abstract of the receipts and disbursements of the office, as taken from the books, for the years 1859 and 1860, which shows the amount of responsibility resting upon the clerk, he being obliged to receive and disburse all the moneys which come in and go out of the office, as well as to keep the books, make out returns, &c. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, BEN, FARRAR, Assistant Treasurer of the U. S., at St. Louis. Honorable S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. Receipts and disbursements for each month during the year 1860 at the office of the Assistant Treasurer United States, St. Louis, Mo. Receipts and disbursements for each month during the year 1859 at the office of the Assistant Treasurer United States, St. Louis, Mo. SIR In compliance with the request contained in your letter of the 24th ultimo, I transmit herewith the estimate of funds required for the service of this department, to supply deficiencies for the years ending June 30, 1861 and 1862. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, CALEB B. SMITH, Secretary. Honorable S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. A. UMATILLA AGENCY, OREGON, November 5, 1860. SIR In the treaty of the 9th June, 1855, with the Walla-Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla Indians, I find no provision for pay and subsistence of millers, while provision is made for the erection of mills and dwelling-houses, and necessary outbuildings for two millers; further, in the enumeration of employés to be paid from the fund appropriated, under the 4th article of the treaty, at the last session of Congress, the same omission is made, and no salaries provided for millers. I would suggest that the attention of the department be called to the subject, and application for a deficiency bill be made, as the services of two millers are absolutely necessary. The amount of the salary should be eleven hundred dollars each, to include subsistence. Good hands cannot be had for less. Owing to the remote position of my agency, the difficulty of access to it, and the consequent heavy expenses for transportation and other purposes incident to the establishment of a new agency, I shall require, in addition to my proportion of the appropriation for "general incidental expenses, &c," the additional sum of seven thousand dollars. In consequence of the disinclination of the Indians to remove to the reservation, I deem it necessary to have a small amount, say twentyfive hundred dollars, placed in the hands of the agent, to pay for the removal of small bands of the Columbia river Indians to the reserve, to be provided for by a deficiency bill for the present fiscal year. I wrote you some time since of the complaints made by white settlers of the Umatilla valley that the Indians were killing their cattle. I then apprehended difficulties, and although I have been enabled to prevent any serious trouble, they (the whites) demand that the Indians be removed. The want of funds for that purpose is very prejudicial to the efficiency of the service. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, EDWARD R. GEARY, Esq., GEO. H. ABBOTT, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Portland, Oregon. The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original letter now on file in my office. EDWARD R GEARY, Superintendent Indian Affairs. B. Estimate of additional funds required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, to enable the agent to carry out stipulations entered into January 22, 1855, and confirmed by the Senate April 11, 1859, with the Squamish, Dwamish, and other allied and subordinate bands of Indians in Washington Territory. For general incidental expenses: For purchase of 21,000 pounds beef, to be used for food for seven thousand Indians, subject to the treaty of Point Elliott, when they are gathered together to receive their annuity goods: 21,000 lbs. beef, at 12 cts. $2,625 00 For purchase of flour, to be used in the same For carrying out the stipulations contained in the 14th article of the treaty during the last half of the current fiscal year; from the amount here below estimated for can be deducted $1,500, as that sum has already been appropriated, and is now applicable for the same portion of the fiscal year. For six months' pay of two employés at Muckleschute reservation, $900; for same at Port Madison, $900; same at Fidalgo island, $900; same at Lummi, $900 For pay of the following employés at the central reserve at ulalep for six months: Teacher and assistant, $1,100; physician, $600; farmer, $500; blacksmith, $500; carpenter, $500 Erecting the necessary buildings for the ac- For warehouse at Tulalep 13,334 00 $1,500 00 750 00 750 00 750 00 2, 00 00 1,000 00 For repairing saw-mill at Tulalep 1,000 00 For erection of one house at each of the subor dinate or temporary reservations, at $750 for each house 3,000 00 10,750 00 24,084 00 |