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00 March Abandoned Lands affidavit amount Arapahoes Assistant Adjutant attorney Balloch Beckert Black Kettle boat Bombay bounty Brevet Captain United Brevet Colonel United bureau agent Bureau Refugees camp certificate Cheyennes chief Chipman claim agents claimants collision Comanches command commission Commissioner consols copy court deck Department disbursing officer duly sworn enlisted February 25 Females Fort Dodge Fort Larned Freedmen and Abandoned guns Hancock heard helm honor Hosmer Huntsville inclosed Indians J. A. SLADEN January June 30 Kanonsaki Kansas Kiowas Larned letter Lieutenant Colonel light Little Rock M. M. Cloon Males Memphis miles Moyers & Dedrick mustered obedient servant Oneida paid Palmer Pawnee pension port Pulaski Quarter ended received regiment respectfully RUNKLE Satanta Secretary sent ship Sioux Smoky Hill soldiers steamer Tennessee Third Arkansas cavalry told tribes twelve months United States Army United States colored vessel Washington widow William Yokohama
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Page 10 - No writ shall be sued out against any officer or other person authorized to seize under this Act, for anything done thereunder, until one month after notice in writing delivered to him or left at his usual place of abode by the person intending to sue out such writ, his attorney, or agent ; in which notice shall be contained...
Page 145 - I have the honor to be, with much respect, your obedient servant, "JC FREMONT, "Lieut. Colonel, Mounted Riflemen. "Brigadier-General SW KEARNEY, Commanding, &c.
Page 171 - Indians have just brought in word that our troops to-day reached the Washita some twenty miles above here. I send this to say that all the camps this side of the point reported to have been reached are friendly, and have not been on the war path this season.
Page 10 - ... preparing to fish" within three marine miles of any of such coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors without a license, or after the expiration of the period named in the last license granted to it, they provide that the vessel, with her tackle, &c., shall be forfeited.
Page 46 - June 8. 1867. SIR: I have the honor to transmit a copy of a letter lately received, showing the whereabouts at present of my Indians.
Page 168 - ... a little knoll near our camp and with the exception of that of Major Elliott, whose remains were carried with us for interment at Fort Arbuckle, the bodies of the entire party under the dim light of a few torches held in the hands of sorrowing comrades were consigned to our common resting place!
Page 10 - No claim to anything seized under this act and returned into any court of viceadmiralty for adjudication shall bo admitted unless the claim be entered under oath, with the name of the owner, his residence and occupation, and the description of the property claimed, which oath shall be made by the owner, his attorney, or agent, and to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Page 170 - Arrapahoes and remaining band of Cheyennes left the Washita valley and moved across in the direction of Red river. After following the trail of the Kiowas and other hostile Indians for seven days, over an almost impassable country, where it was necessary to keep two or three hundred men almost constantly at work with picks, axes, and spades...
Page 9 - British waters) within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors in Canada, into port, and search her cargo, and may also examine the master upon oath, touching the cargo and voyage ; and if the master or person in command shall not truly answer the questions put to him in such examination, he shall forfeit four hundred...