William A. Mercer forwards voucher and requests authority to pay for the debt incurred by him during travel.
Request to Spend Funds
Currently being used to cover any requests for money, requests for authorization to spend money, vouchers being submitted, and requests for reimbursement. Essentially any time money is being requested for a specific purpose. Correspondence related to annual funding should be tagged with the Topic tag "Financial Affairs - School Budget."
February 4, 1907
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February 8, 1907
William A. Mercer submits a voucher for the treatment of Eugene Funmaker and requests authority to pay the bill.
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February 11, 1907
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that no bids were received for cement blocks, lintels, sills, etc. As a result, Mercer requests to purchase the entire block-making outfit along with materials to make the blocks on the school grounds. By producing the blocks at the school it would further allow industrial training in a…
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February 21, 1907
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay expenses incurred in returning runaway students.
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March 8, 1907
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for the services and articles furnished by the undertaker related to the burial of Clarissa Winnie (here Clarissa Winne).
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March 9, 1907
William A. Mercer requests voucher to pay for the services of local Carlisle doctors in the treatment of Clarissa Winnie.
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May 20, 1907
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for the travel of J. H. Lewis as an escort of 11 Hopi students from Fort Wingate, Arizona to the Carlisle Indian School.
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June 1, 1906
William A. Mercer forwards voucher for bill covering medical treatment of Tena Hood while on outing.
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June 3, 1907
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for medical treatment of students while on outing, taking students to Philadelphia for special treatment as well as board, and medicine and special diets of students in the school hospital.
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June 5, 1907
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for the medical treatment of Louise Kachicum (here Louise Kechicum) for tuberculosis while on outing.
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June 14, 1907 - July 11, 1907
Correspondence regarding William A. Mercer's request to pay for the expenses incurred in the apprehension and return of a runaway student.
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June 24, 1907
William A. Mercer provides an explanation for the voucher submitted for expenses of Fred W. Canfield related to the return of two runaway students.
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June 27, 1907
William A. Mercer requests authority to hire a quarryman to quarry stone who is familiar with dynamite for 120 days. Mercer notes that this position is needed to secure stone for buildings and for crushing to use in cement work and macadamizing roads.
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August 13-23, 1907
Major W. A. Mercer requests to spend $47.70 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1908" appropriation on porch shades and fire screens for the superintendent's quarters and supplies for the shoe shop. Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. E. Leupp grants Mercer's request.
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August 15-27, 1907
Major W. A. Mercer requests to spend $22.00 from the "Miscellaneous Receipts, Class IV" appropriation to pay for a debt incurred for buying newspapers for the Carlisle Indian School during the first quarter of 1908. Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. E. Leupp grants Mercer's request.
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August 16, 1907 - August 23, 1907
Request to cover indebtedness incurred in the purchase of a casket for the burial of Henry Rose by William A. Mercer. Francis E. Leupp approves request.
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August 28, 1907
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent J. R. Wise forwards a voucher for the final payment to contractor Harry G. Brown to build the new hospital at the school.
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October 16, 1907
Carlisle Indian School William A. Mercer writes to the Chief Clerk of the Department of the Interior Frank M. Conser to request that he sends contractor Harry G. Brown his final payment for building the new hospital
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January 28, 1908 - February 26, 1914
Howard Fremont Stratton, Director of the Art Department at the School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells why the Bureau of Indian Affairs does not pay the living expenses of Indian students, many of whom formerly attended Carlisle, accepted to his school. Stratton also forwards Sells an…
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March 24-31, 1908
Supervisor in Charge Charles H. Dickson requests authority to spend $500 to make emergency repairs to buildings. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee grants permission.
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June 4 - July 16, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School Carlisle, Pa., 1909" account for medical treatment of students on outing, transport of pupils to Philadelphia for special medical treatment, and food and medicine in the school hospital. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee gives…
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July 4, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards balances of three contracts that total $1,044. The three contracts are for paint supplies, "gym slippers," and lumber.
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July 4, 1908 - June 22, 1909
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests $400 for fiscal year 1908 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which is used for "pasture and other purposes." A year later, Friedman asks to renew the lease at the same price for fiscal year 1909.
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July 4-16, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests funds to make emergency repairs to buildings. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee grants permission.
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August 15-18, 1908
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $300 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1909" account to capture and return runaway students. Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. E. Leupp grants permission.
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