TABLE 44.-Pro rata shares of tribal funds settled during fiscal year ended June 30, 1919.

TABLE 45.-Volume of business in Indian warehouses, fiscal year ended June 30, 1919.

TABLE 46.-Expense at warehouses, fiscal year ended June 30, 1919.

San Francisco.

St. Louis.

42, 707 5, 168, 723 $294, 416.47

BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.

MERRILL E. GATES, Washington, D. C.; appointed June 27, 1884.
GEORGE VAUX, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; appointed November 27, 1906.
WARREN K. MOOREHEAD, Andover, Mass.; appointed December 19, 1908.
SAMUEL A. ELIOT, Boston, Mass.; appointed November 27, 1909.
FRANK KNOX, Manchester, N. H.; appointed May 2, 1911.
WILLIAM H. KETCHAM, Washington, D. C.; appointed December 3, 1912.
DANIEL SMILEY, Mohonk Lake, N. Y.; appointed December 17, 1912.
ISIDORE B. DOCKWEILER, Los Angeles, Calif.; appointed December 22, 1913.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL, Chicago, Ill.; appointed May 23, 1917.

HUGH L. SCOTT, Princeton, N. J.; appointed February 25, 1919.

GEORGE VAUX, Jr., Chairman.

MALCOLM MCDOWELL, Secretary.

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FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.

FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1919.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1919.

SIR: We beg leave to submit herewith the Fiftieth Annual Report of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, with certain recommendations and observations for your consideration.

During the year members of the board visited and inspected over 30 reservations, schools, and other branches of the Indian Bureau, and their reports on conditions among the Indians and of perplexing and serious problems confronting the Indian Office and its field forces were transmitted to you from time to time. Among the reservations and schools visited by board members were the following:

Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa.

Wind River Reservation, Wyo.

Crow, Tongue River, Fort Belknap, Blackfeet, and Flathead Reservations, Mont.

Shawnee Agency, Okla.

Schools and hospitals among the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles in Oklahoma.

Papago, Moqui, Navajo, and Western Navajo Reservations, Ariz.

San Juan, Pueblo Bonito, Zuni, and Pueblo Day Schools Agencies, N. Mex. Eastern Cherokee Reservation, N. C.

Seminole Agency, Fla.

Kickapoo and Potawatomi Agencies, Kans.

Nonreservation schools: Phoenix, at Phoenix, Ariz.; Santa Fe. at Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Albuquerque, at Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Haskell Institute, at Lawrence, Kans.; Mount Pleasant, at Mount Pleasant, Mich.

BOARD'S SEMICENTENNIAL.

We may be pardoned for calling your attention to the fact that this, its Fiftieth Annual Report, marks the semicentennial of the Board of Indian Commissioners, which was created under an act of Congress by President Grant in 1869. During the 50 years which span the board's existence the Indians have advanced along the lines of civilization to a remarkable degree. When it is considered that the administration of Indian affairs, from the beginning, has been changed, more or less, every few years; that the Indians, from the time they were made wards of the Government, have suffered much from the Government's shifting policies; that organized exploitation and individual graft have robbed, harassed, and, in some cases, utterly ruined them (and this is not our unsupported statement for Secretaries of the Interior, Commissioners of Indian Affairs, Members of Congress, Army officers, missionaries, Indian superintendents,