William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he will consider the objections raised by the Acting Judge Advocate General in having the Carlisle Indian School serve as a training ground for the United States Cavalry.
1900-1909
![Mercer Responds to Ruling Regarding Cavalry Training Mercer Responds to Ruling Regarding Cavalry Training](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3181_55898_0001.jpg?itok=Gn0x9iEz)
![Requests to Rent Telephone and Pay for Treatment Outside of Carlisle, 1906 Requests to Rent Telephone and Pay for Treatment Outside of Carlisle, 1906](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3181_55900_0001.jpg?itok=dbz9ss6h)
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay telephone rent, for medical treatment of students on outing, and for transportation and board of students being treated in Philadelphia during the 1907 fiscal year.
![Mercer Requests Authority to Rent Henderson Tract for Fiscal Year 1907 Mercer Requests Authority to Rent Henderson Tract for Fiscal Year 1907](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3184_56679_0001.jpg?itok=UVrfMdA0)
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay $400 for the rent of the Henderson Tract in order to use the land for pasture.
![Request to Pay for Rent for Use of Alexander Farm for Remainder of 1906 Request to Pay for Rent for Use of Alexander Farm for Remainder of 1906](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3184_56678_0001.jpg?itok=PPgZ4CQo)
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 Report of First Months at Carlisle Angel De Cora Submits Report of First Months at Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3186_57445_c6367.jpg?itok=RaQW6u8n)
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.
![Mercer Requests to Know More About Appropriation to Return Alaskan Students Mercer Requests to Know More About Appropriation to Return Alaskan Students](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3184_56676_0001.jpg?itok=Z1bjZ0VI)
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.
![Inquiry into Using Fund to Return Alaskan Students in Case of Lottie Hilton Inquiry into Using Fund to Return Alaskan Students in Case of Lottie Hilton](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3185_57060_0001.jpg?itok=b1R8fE-a)
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.
![Mercer Renews Request for the Transfer of Effie Moul Mercer Renews Request for the Transfer of Effie Moul](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3185_57061_0001.jpg?itok=_1J_is5i)
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.
![Descriptive Statement of Changes in School Employees, July 1906 Descriptive Statement of Changes in School Employees, July 1906](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3192_59106_c6913.jpg?itok=d_lLPT2X)
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.
![Inquiry Regarding Making Wagons for the Public Inquiry Regarding Making Wagons for the Public](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3190_58505_0002.jpg?itok=Xz2PxQgH)
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.
![Request for Printer to be Appointed to through Civil Service List Request for Printer to be Appointed to through Civil Service List](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3191_58790_0003.jpg?itok=KyH6b8i0)
William A. Mercer requests the Office of Indian Affairs fill the position of printer through the Civil Service Commission's list of eligible candidates.
![Effie Moul Accepts Transfer to Rapid City as Teacher Effie Moul Accepts Transfer to Rapid City as Teacher](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3192_59103_0002.jpg?itok=pr6PDUyc)
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.
![Mercer Responds to Request to Return Catherine Red Tomahawk Mercer Responds to Request to Return Catherine Red Tomahawk](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3192_59105_0002.jpg?itok=drJcvPjo)
William A. Mercer responds to request of Red Tomahawk to return his daughter Catherine Red Tomahawk.
![Request to Enroll Eva and Ellen Simons Request to Enroll Eva and Ellen Simons](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3213_65574_0004.jpg?itok=-nX0W8qQ)
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.
![Cost of Returning Students to Homes in Alaska Cost of Returning Students to Homes in Alaska](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3196_60246_0003.jpg?itok=5aNR7xYk)
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 Resignation as Assistant Seamstress E. Corbett Submits Resignation as Assistant Seamstress](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3202_62175_0002.jpg?itok=xaxWQIPI)
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.
![Office Informed Benedict Cox Has Not Reported for Duty Office Informed Benedict Cox Has Not Reported for Duty](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3198_60868_0002.jpg?itok=7OGMsRZf)
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.
![E. H. Colegrove's Request for Leave of Absence E. H. Colegrove's Request for Leave of Absence](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3200_61606_0002.jpg?itok=CT_ETbe6)
W. A. Mercer forwards disciplinarian E. H. Colegrove's application for a 24-day leave of absence.
![Sketch of Ground for New Hospital Building Sketch of Ground for New Hospital Building](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3202_62177_0006_0.jpg?itok=cYhhDdtH)
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 and Regular Employee Pay, First Quarter 1906 Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, First Quarter 1906](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3201_61851_c6842.jpg?itok=DmnL1hVV)
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.
![Eight Certificates of Attendance at Summer School Eight Certificates of Attendance at Summer School](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3262_81854_0001.jpg?itok=uVFybLAp)
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 Brown Requests Information to Make a Bid to Build New Hospital Harry Brown Requests Information to Make a Bid to Build New Hospital](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3204_63034_0002.jpg?itok=_ogdYrh3)
Harry G. Brown requests information regarding the proposed hospital at the Carlisle Indian School in order to make a bid to erect the building.
![Michael A. Buffalo Requests Reinstatement to the Indian Service Michael A. Buffalo Requests Reinstatement to the Indian Service](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3208_64047_0004.jpg?itok=cWM13cCI)
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.
![Request to Pay for Expenses in the Outing Program in Fiscal Year 1907 Request to Pay for Expenses in the Outing Program in Fiscal Year 1907](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3203_62601_0002.jpg?itok=7wQTcOfK)
William A. Mercer requests authority to pay for expenses involved in placing students in their outing homes as well as visiting them.
![Sadie E. Newcomer's Request for Leave of Absence Sadie E. Newcomer's Request for Leave of Absence](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b3206_63534_0001.jpg?itok=kYLw35bE)
W. A. Mercer forwards teacher Sadie E. Newcomer's request for leave of absence due to her father's illness.