Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior for 1905 Sir: We have the honor to submit the Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners. Purchase and Inspection of Supplies for the Indian Service. In accordance with advertisements and specifications published in compliance with the law and regulations, bids for furnishing supplies for the Indian Service were opened at the office of the United States Indian warehouse, at 265 South Canal street, Chicago, Ill., at 1 p. m. on Tuesday, April 25, 1905, by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in the presence of and assisted by Commissioner Darwin R. James, of New York, the chairman of this Board. Four hundred and sixty bids were opened (an increase of 3 over the number opened at Chicago the year before). At the United States Indian warehouse, at 602 South Seventh street, St. Louis, Mo., bids for supplies were opened by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on Thursday, April 27, 1905, at 1 p. m. Commissioner Darwin R. James, of this Board, was also in attendance. Seventy bids were opened at St. Louis and 48 contracts for supplies were awarded to those who had submitted these bids. The chairman of this Board was present assisting in the examination of samples and the award of contracts at Chicago and St. Louis until Monday, May 8, when the work was substantially completed. On Tuesday, May 16, the Board of Indian Commissioners held a meeting at the United States Indian warehouse, 119 Wooster street, New York, at 12 o'clock noon. Commissioners James, Smiley, Jacobs, and Gates were present. At 1 p. m. on May 16 bids for Indian supplies were opened at the New York warehouse by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in the presence of and assisted by Commissioners James, Smiley, Jacobs, and Gates. Seventy-two bids were received and 37 contracts were awarded. Commissioner Gates, the secretary of the Board, was present daily at the Indian warehouse in New York from the beginning of the examination of samples and the awarding of contracts until the afternoon of Friday, May 26, when the work of awarding contracts was substantially completed. Commissioner Jacobs, of this Board, was also in daily attendance assisting in the examination and choice of samples and in making awards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.