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Show 54 Hoping this may receive your early attention, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, AMOS REED Clerk Indian Superintendency of Utah Territory-1^ Hon. W. P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Dole was impressed enough that he included the letter with one of his own to John P. Usher, Secretary of the Interior: * DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Office Indian Affairs, January 5, 1863 Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith copy of letter from Amos Reed, clerk to superintendent of Indian affairs for Utah Territory, submitting statement in reference to the necessity of an additional appropriation of $20,000 for the Indian service in Utah for the remaining fiscal year ending June 30, 1863. In view of the destitute condition of the Indians within that superintendency as represented in said communication, and the fact that the very limited means appropriated by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863, have necessarily been exhausted for their support, I beg leave to recommend that Congress be requested to supply the deficiency a further appropriation of $20,000, to meet trie wants of the service for the balance of the fiscal yeaA ending 30th June next. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, WM. P. DOLE, Commissioner!14 Hon. John P. Usher, Acting Secretary of the Interior. When Usher, in turn, sent the request to G. A. Grow, Speaker of the House of Representatives, he said, "It may be that the whole 13RCIA, 1863, pp. 2-3. ll+Ibid. , p. 2. |