Richard Henry Pratt requests that the $8,000 appropriated for the Carlisle Indian School transportation budget be made special and placed to his credit so that he may make use of it.
Financial Affairs - Management
Use for discussion of bookkeeping and financial practices generally. When the topic is how or when financial paperwork was submitted, for example.
![Request Transportation Appropriation be Made Special Request Transportation Appropriation be Made Special](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0530_16739_0002.jpg?itok=mKGkwSFn)
![Pratt Follows Up on Request to Have Incorrect Voucher Returned Pratt Follows Up on Request to Have Incorrect Voucher Returned](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0546_23190_0001.jpg?itok=llHww7DF)
Richard Henry Pratt follows up on his request that the incorrect voucher for receipt rolls be returned to him.
![Pratt Requests Authority to Expand Employee Accommodations Pratt Requests Authority to Expand Employee Accommodations](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0556_26989_0001.jpg?itok=zx1_oeo2)
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to expand the accommodations for teachers and employees at the Carlisle Indian School.
![Inquiry into Use of Various Appropriations to Pay for Former Students College Expenses Inquiry into Use of Various Appropriations to Pay for Former Students College Expenses](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0565_30870_0001.jpg?itok=L7QwaoDg)
Richard Henry Pratt inquires about using appropriation to support former students currently enrolled at various colleges who are currently being supported by the Charity Fund. Pratt notes that he has many calls on his Charity Fund and is about $5,000 in debt on account of the Gymnasium and Large Boys' Quarters costing $22,000 and that he would…
![Pratt Follows Up on Request for Transportation Authority Pratt Follows Up on Request for Transportation Authority](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0575_34931_0002_0.jpg?itok=OdkbgUC2)
Richard Henry Pratt follows up his request from November 16, 1889 asking for authority to cover transportation as he needs it.
![Pratt Requests to Use Treaty Funds to Return Big Hail and Theron Lears Pratt Requests to Use Treaty Funds to Return Big Hail and Theron Lears](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0637_20145_0002.jpg?itok=E3H7YndL)
Richard Henry Pratt requests to use the Montana Treaty Funds to pay for the return of Egbert B. Hail (here Big Hail) and Theron Lears to their homes.
![Pratt Responds to Authority to Return Pupils in June 1890 Pratt Responds to Authority to Return Pupils in June 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0637_20144_0002_0.jpg?itok=nEyuPXta)
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding authority to transfer pupils to their homes. Pratt notes that it was best to return the students at once and he therefore sent the students under escort. Pratt ends by writing that the amount placed to his credit just about covers the expense.
![Pratt Requests Additional Clerks to Meet New Duties Pratt Requests Additional Clerks to Meet New Duties](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b1554_29656_0009.jpg?itok=zgNGLpQ8)
Richard Henry Pratt requests two additional clerks tp meet the demands recently imposed by the Office of Indian Affairs circular of June 23, 1898. Pratt notes that the administrative burden is quite high and would lead him to abandon his current financial recordkeeping of student money of which he encloses a copy.
![Pratt Responds to Office Inquiry Regarding Report on School Statistics Pratt Responds to Office Inquiry Regarding Report on School Statistics](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0676_34488_0002.jpg?itok=fNBoDNS_)
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding discrepancies cited by the Office between the Carlisle annual report and the quarterly reports. Pratt details how his calculations were made and further discusses the costs of the school and the appropriation.
![Pratt Objects to Inputs for the 1890 Annual Report Pratt Objects to Inputs for the 1890 Annual Report](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0990_21474_0001.jpg?itok=7qfv3PxR)
Richard Henry Pratt writes personally to Thomas J. Morgan to object to the method used to calculate the costs in educating students at the various Indian Schools. Pratt notes that in the 1890 Annual Report all costs for Carlisle were represented while other schools did not have certain costs factored into their calculation skewing the results.…
![Pratt Responds to Per Capita Cut and Opposition to Assimilation Pratt Responds to Per Capita Cut and Opposition to Assimilation](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0709_07850_0003.jpg?itok=SiowBoRX)
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he has received their telegram regarding the Senate Committee cutting annual per capita appropriation to $150. Pratt notes that this is ample and further reiterates his beliefs in opposing the establishment of a public school system on the Indian Reservations. Pratt then goes into…
![Interior Secretary Disallows Carlisle Appropriation for Clerks Interior Secretary Disallows Carlisle Appropriation for Clerks](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0725_14345_0002.jpg?itok=uNoJwZtG)
The Acting Secretary of the Interior disapproves using the appropriation of Carlisle Indian School to cover the pay and travel expenses for two clerks and one agent to obtain and record the information called for the Senate Resolution of February 13, 1891.
![Pratt Asks for Ways to Bring Students from the Western Shoshone Agency Pratt Asks for Ways to Bring Students from the Western Shoshone Agency](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0726_14839_0001.jpg?itok=6a75MOjn)
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he has received requests from Dr. Carlos Montezuma and the Western Shoshone Agency Agent to enroll five students from that Agency. Pratt writes that his transportation costs for the year are minimal and asks if it possible to use other funds for the purpose of bringing in these…
![Forwards Account for Tickets Furnished for Transportation of Students Forwards Account for Tickets Furnished for Transportation of Students](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0753_25254_0001.jpg?itok=Ssof9UaK)
Richard Henry Pratt forwards account of J. R. Wood, general passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for tickets furnished to escorts and pupils during the previous fiscal year.
![Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School, 1891 Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School, 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0776_33182_0028.jpg?itok=93CSHkMv)
Pratt's annual report of the Carlisle Indian School begins by providing statistics of the number of students from various nations during the school year. Pratt claims that the per capita cost at Carlisle is lesser than at other schools while also highlighting the cost of Carlisle as a tool for greater assimilation with the outing program in…
![Pratt Responds to Office Letter Regarding Report on Carlisle Pratt Responds to Office Letter Regarding Report on Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0801_42774_0002.jpg?itok=4bpotEaN)
Richard Henry Pratt responds to Thomas J. Morgan's annual report on the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt states that the numbers used in the report present Carlisle in an unfair light by including transportation costs in their funds while not including them for other schools. In addition, the report under counted the daily average of students at…
![Comptroller Opinion on Osage Fund Paying for Students at Carlisle Comptroller Opinion on Osage Fund Paying for Students at Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0802_43167_0002.jpg?itok=IoBUfJTO)
B. F. Gilkeson, Comptroller in the Second Comptroller's Office, responds to Thomas J. Morgan's letter regarding using interest generated from the Osage Fund to pay for Osage students at the Carlisle Indian School. Gilkeson writes that his interpretation of the treaty holds that only uses which were mentioned are valid and so funds cannot be…
![Fort Apache Request for Carlisle Student as a Translator Fort Apache Request for Carlisle Student as a Translator](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0825_06138_0002_0.jpg?itok=-gJNYJY-)
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letters regarding an inquiry from Lieutenant W. H. Bean regarding the need for an Apache translator for Fort Apache. Pratt notes that all of the Apache students have noted that while they have forgotten some of their language that they can likely pick it up again quickly. The students…
![Inquiry into Appropriation for New York State Indians to Attend Carlisle Inquiry into Appropriation for New York State Indians to Attend Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0845_13319_0002_A.jpg?itok=_OnbE-z9)
Helen Shelton Smith writes to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding the odds of New York Indians receiving an appropriation from the U.S. Government in order to attend the Carlisle Indian School.
![Request to Expend $5,000 in Travel Expenses in 1892-1893 Fiscal Year Request to Expend $5,000 in Travel Expenses in 1892-1893 Fiscal Year](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0884_24768_0001.jpg?itok=C6uE6Uj3)
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $5,000 during the current fiscal year for necessary travel and incidental expenses of bringing students to the school and returning them to their homes.
![Pratt Provides Early Response to Complaint Regarding Transportation Pratt Provides Early Response to Complaint Regarding Transportation](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0894_28688_0002.jpg?itok=ZVAKmGTW)
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter that they have been informed unofficially that in transporting students to and from Carlisle he does not invite competition from different railroads. Pratt requests to be furnished with the complaint in full, to know the parties making it, and for it to be made official in order…
![Attention Called to Report of Irregular Employees, June 1892 (Letter) Attention Called to Report of Irregular Employees, June 1892 (Letter)](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0894_28939_0002.jpg?itok=kxxOMJJ2)
Captain Richard H. Pratt sends a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting approval for the report of irregular employees for June 1892.
![Attention Called to Report of Irregular Employees, June 1892 (Telegram) Attention Called to Report of Irregular Employees, June 1892 (Telegram)](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0902_31765_0001.jpg?itok=HFX9X3Om)
Captain Richard H. Pratt sends telegram to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs informing him that the irregular employee report for June 1892 still needs approval.
![Request to Spend Additional $2,000 for Transportation of Students Request to Spend Additional $2,000 for Transportation of Students](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0937_45928_0001.jpg?itok=NfLEivi1)
Request by Richard Henry Pratt to spend an additional $2000 on the transportation of students to and from the school.
![Beltzhoover Seeks Information on Various Questions Related to Carlisle Beltzhoover Seeks Information on Various Questions Related to Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0956_7061_0001.jpg?itok=cvaBml_n)
F. A. Beltzhoover inquires from the Commissioner Indian Affairs various questions related to the Carlisle Indian School including the number of pupils in average attendance, the appropriation for the School, and the average cost per pupil. Beltzhoover also asks for the amount of additional funds from the Osage or other funds received by the…