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Show 103 a In the same year $ 45,000 w, as also appropriated for general expenses; and $ 1,200 for surveying and mapping four farms and reservations. These sums made the largest total for any one year up to that date, and u n t i l 1864, when again a deficit of $ 15,000 was voted, in addition to other items, as recorded in the Statutes at Large of the United States 1 for these years. Unfortunately, financial affairs were made worse by the mismanagement of Superintendent Forney who allowed debts to acorue to the extent of injuring the credit of the department. Superintendent Forney iras removed and from September 1859 to November 1360 Utah was without a euperintendency because of the delay of his successor in reaching his; post. In sheer desperation Agent Humphries went personally to Washington to plead for the Indians in 1860. There he got five thousand d o l l a r s , which paid the debts and brought some r e l i e f in the form of food and 3 clothes to the Indians. _ Statutes at Large of the United States, Vol. X, p. 330; Vol. XI, pp. 79, 183, 698, 400; Vol. XII, pp. 19, 58, 337,639,791,293,793; Vol. XIII, p. 558. 3 Indian Affairs Report, 1861, p. 140 et seq. |