Richard Henry Pratt requests $2,000 additional funding to return students to their homes as well as bringing students to Carlisle.
Student Travel Departing
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Richard Henry Pratt returns request for transportation for Metoxen with age indicated and signature added that the transportation was received.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests an additional $3000 for transportation students to and from their homes.
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Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior, denies the request of Richard Henry Pratt for an increase in transportation budget and requests additional requests include statements on the need for the funds.
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Richard Henry Pratt replies to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding his application to spend an additional $3000 on transportation.
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Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Lewis Williams (also known as Lewis Daniel Wiliams) has a ticket to his home in Idaho.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $2,500 on transportation of students to and from the Carlisle Indian School for the remainder of the 1896 fiscal year.
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Richard Henry Pratt forwards a coupon for Elizah (here Elijah) Brown to travel between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Cascade Looks, Oregon as part of his return trip home.
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Alfred John Standing requests authority to spend $7000 during the current fiscal year in transporting students to and from Carlisle.
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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.
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Captain Richard H. Pratt forwards the approval letter for March 1897 irregular employees report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Pratt also submits a statement showing the ages of students whose transportation was paid for during the third quarter of 1897.
Note: The actual approval letter and statement were missing when this file…
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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money in the transportation of students to and from Carlisle during the 1898 fiscal year.
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Richard Henry Pratt provides a breakdown of the cost per capita of transporting students from West of the Mississippi River. Additional cost numbers are also provided.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $10,000 during the 1899 fiscal year in the transportation of students to and from Carlisle.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend an additional $2000 in the transportation of students to and from their homes during fiscal year 1900.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $14,000 for the transportation of students to and from their homes and the Carlisle Indian School for fiscal year 1901.
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Edgar A. Allen requests an additional $3,000 for transporting students to and from their homes and the Carlisle Indian School having already exhausted the budgeted transportation funds.
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Edgar A. Allen informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School has $34,755.84 on credit with the Assistant Treasurer in New York along with sale of manufactured goods and money with Commissioner of Indian Affairs for a total balance of $40,584.28. As a result, Allen renews his request for authorization to spend an…
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Richard Henry Pratt emphasizes to the Office of Indian Affairs the need to authorize spending an additional $3,000 to transport students to and from the Carlisle Indian School.
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Richard Henry Pratt responds to Office of Indian Affairs circular #92 by providing various information related to the cost of bringing and returning students to and from Carlisle.
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Richard Henry Pratt responds to Education Circular No. 110 requesting data regarding transportation of students. Pratt notes that this is not applicable to Carlisle.
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Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School exceeded its authority for returning students to their homes by $1248.61. As a result Pratt requests authority to spend that sum in the last quarter of fiscal year 1904.
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William A. Mercer requests the Office of Indian Affairs inform him how to pay expenses involved to returning students from Alaska to their homes.
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Edgar A. Allen informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Maggie Venne has been brought back from her outing home and will leave shortly to return to her home. Allen further returns correspondence from Senator Porter J. McCumber regarding his request to have Venne returned.
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E. A. Hitchcock provides decisions on allowing or disallowing expenses incurred in returning pupils to Alaska from the Carlisle Indian School.