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Title: Regulating the Indian Department. [To accompany bills H.R. nos. 488, 489, & 490.] May 20, 1834. Mr. H. Everett from the Committee on Indian Affairs, made the following report... Author: Everett, Horace Place: [Washington, D.C.] Publisher: Gales & Seaton, print. Date: 1834 Description: 131 pp. Folding engraved map hand-colored in outline. (8vo) 22.5x13.5 cm. (9x5¼"), modern half morocco & cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Report on Native American tribes that had been relocated west of the Missouri River, as well those native to the area. It accompanied three bills, "A bill to provide for the organization of the Department Of Indian Affairs"; "A bill to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers"; and, "A bill to provide for the establishment of the Western Territory, and for the security and protection of the emigrant and other Indian tribes therein." The "Map of the Western Territory &c.," by Washington Hood (43.2x45.5 cm), shows locations and history of lands belonging to Ioways, Sacs & Foxes, Sioux, Omahas, Otoes, Patawatomies, Pawnees, Kickapoos, Delawares, Kansas, Shawnees, Osages, Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws; also roads and trails. Issued as House Rep. No. 474, 23d Congress, 1st Session. With the small oval bookplate of Thoms W. Streeter. Provenance: Western Hemisphere, 2/75 References: Howes E235; Streeter 1794; Wagner-Camp 49; Wheat Transmississippi 405. Lot Amendments Condition: Some fairly moderate foxing and darkening to text and map, very good, binding fine. Item number: 271810