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Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAJRS. 197 a copy of their quarterly reports and other documents of theirs, which the law requires me to examine and forward in addition to the one forwarded, and that remaining in their offices. Owing to Mr. James Case (farmer for the Sandpitch Indians) hav-ing left for the States, I appointed Mr. Warren Snow in his place on the 2d of July last. I transmit by the mail of October lst, proximo, this my report, the account current, abstract return property, and vouchers, from 1 to 15, inclusive, for the quarter ending September 29, 1855 ; also abstract of employ6s, and have drawn upon you in favor of the Hou. John M. Bernhiael, Utah delegate, for $2,949 50, that being the amount shown in the accompanying account current. Trusting that this report may be found sufficiently explicit, and not tedious through minute detail, and that the accompanying above named papers may prove to be correct in accordance with prescribed requirement, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, BRIGHAM YOUNG, Govemr and woficw Superintendent of Indian Afairs. Eon. GEORUWE . MANYPENNY, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington Cdy, D. C. No. 100. O m e INDIAAGNE NT,U TAHT ERRITORY, Great Salt Lake City, Septmnher 30, 1855. Sm: The duties of this agency during the quarter ending Sep-tember 30, 1855, have been very arduous and expensive, but we have every reason to hope that they have not been performed in vain, and that much good will be the future result. Soon after my last report, the news of a hostile state of feeling among the Indians on the Hum-boldt river reached this place, and as much had beeu said about In-dian murders and robberies in that region of country, it was deemed advisable for some person to make them a visit, and agreeably to your instructions of the 10th July I arranged an outfit, and set out on the 16th day of the same month for that valley. Being informed that the Indians had beeu induced to e x~e cat laree amount of presents from the government irom promises wide them gy eome at' my ~redeeessorsir r ofice, I thorreh best to llre~areto meet those expectati&i, so I took with me as manfpresentsAas 'my wagons would conveniently carry. The first Indians we saw after leaving this place were a band of the Treaber Utes, at Bingham's Fort, numbering about 60 or 70 men, under a chief by the name of Little Soldier, or Showets. We gave them some presents, at which they were much pleased, and soon left for their camps near by. On the evening of the next day we camped at Willow creek, and scarcely had time to unharness, |