1900-1909

William A. Mercer requests $400 for the rental of the Alexander Tract during the current year to use a playground for students of the Carlisle Indian School.

Angel De Cora submits a report on her first five months in charge of the Native Arts Industry at the Carlisle Indian School to William A. Mercer.

William A. Mercer requests to know more about an Act of Congress appropriating money for the return of students from Alaska to their homes. Mercer notes that two students in particular should be sent home as soon as possible due to consumption.

William A. Mercer requests to know if the recent appropriation allowing for funds to transport Alaskan students to their homes would apply to Lottie Hilton.

William A. Mercer follows up on his recommendation to grant Effie G. Moul's request to transfer her and to send another assistant matron to the Carlisle Indian School in her place.

Major William A. Mercer submits a report that lists new employee (Michael Barron), an employee who's hired and then fired (William M. Hays), and employees who have left the school (H. W. Leaman and E. G. Sprow). The reports include position title, salary, date of departure, and reason for departure.

William A. Mercer requests to know if the Carlisle Indian School industrial department can sell wagons or buggies to the public. Mercer states that the school generally makes two or three vehicles above the requests of the Indian Service that are disposed of through public auction to keep up instruction.

William A. Mercer requests the Office of Indian Affairs fill the position of printer through the Civil Service Commission's list of eligible candidates.

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Effie G. Moul accepts the transfer to the position of teacher at Rapid City, South Dakota.

William A. Mercer responds to request of Red Tomahawk to return his daughter Catherine Red Tomahawk.

Correspondence related to the request of Arthur A. Heald, Superintendent of the Public Schools of the Town of Wareham, to enroll Eva and Ellen Simons at the Hampton School or the Carlisle Indian School.

William A. Mercer provides the cost of returning 35 students to their homes in Alaska on account of expired terms of enrollment and ill health.

E. Corbett submits her resignation as assistant seamstress at the Carlisle Indian School due to her health. William A. Mercer forwards the resignation to the Office of Indian Affairs and requests it to be accepted.

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Benedict A. Cox who was appointed to the mason position at the Carlisle Indian School has not reported for duty.

W. A. Mercer forwards disciplinarian E. H. Colegrove's application for a 24-day leave of absence. 

W. G. Thompson discusses the excavation for the new hospital building and provides a sketch of the ground on which the hospital is being built.

Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1906 amounting to $68,102.90 for support of the school and for transportation of Indian supplies, $13,915.00 of which is for regular employee pay.

Major W. A. Mercer forwards certificates of attendance at summer school for eight employees: Emma H. Foster, Mariette Wood, Cora B. Hawk, Mary A. Yarnall, Hattie M. McDowell, Frances R. Scales, Sarah E. Gedney, and John L. Walters.

Harry G. Brown requests information regarding the proposed hospital at the Carlisle Indian School in order to make a bid to erect the building.

William A. Mercer forwards a letter from Michael A. Buffalo and provides him a recommendation to reinstate him in the Indian Service.

Note that Buffalo was not a Carlisle student, but someone Mercer had previously known.

William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for expenses involved in placing students in their outing homes as well as visiting them.

W. A. Mercer forwards teacher Sadie E. Newcomer's request for leave of absence due to her father's illness. 

William A. Mercer requests to know if Benedict A. Cox who was appointed to the vacant position is also qualified as a brick layer, cement worker, and plasterer. Mercer states that the individual who is temporary employed in the position has all of the necessary qualifications.

Dean of School Mervin S. Fuller certifies that Emma K. Hetrick attended summer school at The Pennsylvania Chautauqua.

Major W. A. Mercer requests a six-month supply of two dozen different blank administrative forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior.