S. S. Scott, Act’g Commr. of Indian Affairs.
Treasury Department, C. S. A., Second Auditor’s Office,
Richmond, Va. Dec 31st 1861.
Sir—The Treasurer of the Confederate States will remit to you the sum of six hundred and eighty one thousand, eight hundred & sixty nine 15/100 dollars—, being the amount of Requisitions Nos. 2175-76-77-78-79-80-81-82-83 & 84 issued in your favor on the 20th Instant—, with which you are charged on the Books of this Office, on account of the following Appropriation, to wit:
“An Act making Appropriations to comply in part with Treaty Stipulations made with certain Indian Tribes,” as per Act
| Requisition | No. | 2175 | For | Contingencies of superintending & Agencies | $ 3,500.00 | ||||
| Do | " | 2176 | " | Sundry | Appropriations | for | Cherokee Indians | 237,944.36 | |
| " | " | 2177 | " | Do | Do | " | Seminole Indians | 61,050.00 | |
| " | " | 2178 | " | " | " | " | Choctaw & Chickasaws | 115,126.89 | |
| " | " | 2179 | " | " | " | " | Creek Indians | 72,950.00 | |
| " | " | 2180 | " | " | " | " | Comanches | 64,862.00 | |
| " | " | 2181 | " | " | " | " | Reserve Indians | 82,905.00 | |
| " | " | 2182 | " | " | " | " | Seneca Indians | 11,962.46 | |
| " | " | 2183 | " | " | " | " | Quapaw Indians | 9,000.00 | |
| " | " | 2184 | " | " | " | " | Osage Indians | 22,568.44 | |
| Total | $681,869.15 | ||||||||
The Treasurer will advise you when the same has been placed to your credit on his Books, or hand you a Draft—for which you will please forward a Receipt to this Office, specifying therein the date, number and amount of said Requisition. I am, very respectfully, your ob’t serv’t,
W. H. S. Taylor, Auditor.
To Genl Albert Pike, Agent for the War Department for delivery of the above funds to Elias Rector, Supt. Ind. Affairs, now in Richmond, Va.
Confederate States of America, Treasurer’s Office,
Richmond, Va., Jany 23
Elias Rector, Fort Smith, Ark.