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Action of the United States Senate 3 



Action of the Secretary of the Interior .' 3 



Letter of transmittal, Commissioner of Education to Secretary of the Interior 3 



Letter of transmittal, Secretary of the Interior to the United States Senate 4 



Annual report of Sheldon Jackson 9 



Tabulated statement of reindeer imported from Siberia, with increase from 



1 892-1 902 9 



Prolificness of the reindeer 9 



Increase by birth of fawns, 1S93-1904 10 



Reindeer sold, butchered, und died, 1S92-1904 10 



Tabulated statement showing proportion of sexes in the reindeer herds 10 



Loan of reindeer to religious denominations 11 



Tabulated statement of reindeer loaned 12 



Reindeer apprentices 13 



Tabulated statement of apprentices, with their holdings 16 



Establishment of new reindeer stations 17 



Proposed new stations in near future 18 



Reindeer mail routes 18 



Finn teachers and herders 18 



Chain of relay stations 18 



Congressional appropriations, 1894-1905 19 



Expenditure of appropriation for the j'ear ending June 30, 1904 19 



Table, increase of reindeer, 1892-1904 20 



Table of ownership of reindeer 20 



Table, reindeer belonging to the Government 20 



Table, individual ownership of reindeer, 1904 21 



Personnel 22 



Condition of stations 23 



Cruise of \Yilliam Hamilton, Ph. D 26 



Cooperation of Treasury Department 28 



APPENDIX. 



Request to the Secretary of the Treasury for transportation of agents of the Bureau 



of Education on revenue cutters 31 



The Secretary of the Treasury grants permission for the agents of the Bureau of 



Education to travel on revenue cutters 32 



Letters of instruction to assistant agent of education in Alaska 32 



Itinerary of William Hamilton, Ph. D., assistant agent of education in Alaska 34 



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