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Show 62 " As ny expenditures in presents and provisions ware larger than taay bo anticipated, it nay be necessary to state the reasons which indtteed toe to make them, It was well understood among the Indiana of thia Territory, an early as last spring, that large appropriations had been Bade by Congress for the purpose of making presents to and treaties with then, ... The Snakes complained that they had perraitted the whit* people to n& ke roads through all their lands and travel upon thea in safety, use the grass, and drink the water, and never received anything for it, although the tribes around thea had been getting presents. Under these circumstances I sew no v?. y to retain their confidenoee but to oeet their expectations. And as they succeeded in caking peso © among themselves, and renewed their pledgee of friendship to the whites, we he. ve reason to hope that harmony will prevail for a season. B The results of Agent Hurt1s efforts are testified to in Commissioner Banypenny'a report of the next year 1^ 56. ~ I Indian Affairs Report, I& 56, p. 19S, et sec. |