Request to Spend Funds

Alfred John Standing requests authority to pay for an overage in the accounts of transporting students to and from Carlisle for the 1896 fiscal year.

Richard Henry Pratt submits plans for a laundry building along with the invitation for proposals for supplies and further requests authority to spend the money in order to erect the building.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase a Beck microscope in order to better detect tuberculosis among students.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase supplies and materials as well as to pay for labor in the construction of an addition to the industrial shops at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt also encloses blueprints showing his plans for the addition.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the construction of the Carpenter, Shoe, and Tin Shops are underway and requests authority to purchase material for the addition of more Industrial Shops.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase 524 pairs of boys and men's shoes due to the ongoing construction work at the Carlisle Indian School.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority from the Office of Indian Affairs to purchase various school books and supplies in January 1897.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for freight on supplies purchased either by the Office of Indian Affairs or Pratt for the Carlisle Indian School on points not covered by transportation contracts.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for traveling expenses involved in visiting students on outing.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $100 to make repairs to buildings, water and steam pipes, and machinery at the Carlisle Indian School before the end of the fiscal year.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase various supplies on the open market including upper leather, dried compressed yeast, Saunder's Pipe Cutting Machinery, and various field and garden seeds.

Richard Henry Pratt requests that $1800 be made immediately available in order to repair damages caused by a storm in September 1896.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards two coupons covering two half tickets for travel of students Sara K. Smith and Addie R. George to the Carlisle Indian School from different points.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay $400 for the rent of the Henderson Tract during fiscal year 1898.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money in the transportation of students to and from Carlisle during the 1898 fiscal year.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money visiting outing pupils during the 1898 fiscal year.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay expenses associated with the treatment of three students at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay two Indian assistants at the dairy as milkers during the quarter.

Richard Henry Pratt provides an estimate for new cases for an exhibit at the Omaha Exposition.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $10,000 during the 1899 fiscal year in the transportation of students to and from Carlisle.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay $600 for the rent of the Hocker Farm during fiscal year 1899.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase three No. 3 Smith Premier type-writers for students looking for clerical positions.

Alfred John Standing requests the authority to expend an additional $250 in order to place and visit outing students.

Richard Henry Pratt requests an additional $3,000 for the transportation of a party of students from Perris, California.

Richard Henry Pratt requests to pay a substitute assistant laundress to replace Carrie Thomas following her resignation.