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Show ' L. "- 31"'" empowering the President to diacontinue or tranafer an agency whenever he judged it expedient, and to appoint aub- agenta aa needed. Thia caused the creation of Bub- agenta where full agenta were needed. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs at this time declared that sub- agenciee should in general be diapenaed with, for the Indiana were now found in larger groups, necesaitatlng from the ' sub- agenta as great a responsibility in some caaea as that of the agents, while they received only one half the amount of compensation, that Is to say, seven hundred and fifty dollars. When so many Indians came under the United States Jurisdiction in Texas, Oregon, California, and New Mexioo, the Act of 1834 proved wholly 1 inadequate. Another serious defect . pointed out at thia time also was the lack of sufficient superintendents. Mentioning the ex- officio superintendenoy of the governors of Oregon and Minnesota, the Commissioner declared the two- fold office undesirable. One reason, for instance, waa that the location of the exeoutive of the territory w, as not always the 2 proper one for the superintendent. 1 Senate Executive Doouraents, 31 Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. 11, Doo. l, p. 951 ( 550). 2 Ibid. |