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Show Executive Office Territory of Utah Department of Indian Affairs Great Salt Lake City, June 28, 1853 Hon. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Washington City Sir, I herewith transmit the abstract account currnet with accompanying vouchers and the dispatch report of his Superintendency for the quarter ending June 30th 1853. All is peace and freedom; and so fiar as the Diggers on the Humbolt or Marys river are concerned no outbreak on these parts have occured since my last communication and I am in hope that the yearly intercourse with the whites afforded by the annual emigration on that would better understanding of other parts, or the othea?, and an entire cessation of hostile demonstrations or where the whites or red men. In the fore part of April last the Utahs at Manti in SarfPete Valley became considerably excited because the inhabitants would not allow them to trade indian children for guns and ammunition to some Mexicans, who came there on a trading expedition. The Mexicans reported that they had a license from the Governor of New Mexico giving them authority to trade with the Utah, in the forks of Grand and Green river. Knowing that the southern point of that region counting was upwards of 30° north of 37° in all the maps in our possesion at the time, and in accordance with what I deemed imperative duty, and to |