Department of the Interior
Office of. Indian Affairs,
January 24, 1879
Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 6th instant, inclosing an estimate of funds required for the service in the White River Agency during the first quarter, 1879. In part compliance with said estimate I have this day caused a requisition to issue for the sum of $2,984.79, to be placed to your credit with the First National Bank of Denver, Colo., from the appropriations and for the objects designated in the tabular statement herewith, for the proper care and disposition of which sum you will be held to account under your bond.
The above amount includes the sum of $1,606.70 of the fund for the “Removal of Utes from White River, Colorado”. Of this sum you will deposit $1,000 to the credit of the United States, under appropriation “Fulfilling treaty with Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Yampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands of Utes, 1879,” to replace a like amount taken from the last-named appropriation by requisition of August 22, last, the said last-named fund being available for the “construction of an irrigating ditch, ” because of the Impossibility of as required by the obtaining the consent of your Indians to its use, as required by the act of May 27, 1878, and the balance, $606.70,to be used in paying accrued indebtedness in completing said ditch.
The $1,122.46 of removal fund, named in your estimate as on hand, is applicable for the purposes for which remitted, and for paying irregular employees engaged in the removal and of making adobes, &c. (etc.) for the new buildings.
Your attention is invited to another letter of this date, relative to the applicability of funds for constructing an irrigation ditch.
Very respectfully,
E. A. HAYT,
Commissioner
N.C. MEEKER,
Indian Agent, White River Agency, Colorado, via Rawlins, Wyo.
