The President may prescribe such regulations as he may think fit for carrying into effect the various provisions of any act relating to Indian affairs and for the settlement of accounts of Indian affairs. (Sec. 465, R. S.) The President speaks and acts through the heads of the several Departments in relation to subjects which appertain to their respective duties. (Wilcox v. Jackson, 13 Peters, 498.) As a general rule the direction of the President is to be presumed in all instructions and orders issuing from the competent Department. (VII Op. Att. Gen., 453.) The Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and agreeably to such regulations as the President may prescribe, have the management of all Indian affairs, and of all matters arising out of Indian relations. (Sec. 463, R. S.) All accounts and vouchers for claims and disbursements connected with Indian affairs shall be transmitted to the Commissioner for administrative examination, and by him passed to the proper accounting officers of the Department of the Treasury for settlement. (Sec. 464, R. S.) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to cause to be compiled and printed for the use of Indian agents and inspectors > the provisions of the statutes regulating the performance of their respective duties, and also to furnish said officers from time to time information of new enactments upon the same subject. (Act May 17, 1882, Sec. 7; 22 Stat., 88.) 3 587558 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, The following regulations governing the management of affairs growing out of Indian relations are promulgated for the information and guidance of all concerned, and will supersede those of 1894 on April 1, 1904. Indian agents and all other officers of the Indian Department are enjoined to carefully study the regulations herein set forth and to render a strict compliance therewith in every particular. Papers or accounts not made out in the prescribed form may be returned to the officer by whom prepared for restatement, while a continued disregard of the regulations laid down on the following pages will render the offender liable to suspension or removal from office. W. A. JONES, Approved: ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK, Commissioner. Secretary of the Interior. 5 |