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Show UTAH. 307 I deem this a subject of importance, and have to wggest, for the purpose of obtaining your advice and instruction, whether the recom-mendation of Mr. Hurt respecting the notification of the superin-tendents, agents, and sub-agents, within the Territory, to scrutinize the conduct of said missionaries, should be adopted, or otherwise the best course, in your opinion, to be pursued in the premises. In view of the position of Agent Hurt, I would also suggest that whatever course you may deem proper to pursue be kept confidential, , 80 that the agent may not incur the ill will of the Mormons. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, CHARLES E. MIX, Acting Commissiopler. Hon. R. MCCLELLAND, Secretay of the interior. No. 130. Memoranda for Secretary of the Interior. OFRIWO F INDIAAmN m , August 13, 1855. In the letter from this office to you of the 10th ultimo, transmitting a copy of a letter from Agent Hurt respecting the contemplated move-ments of Mormon missionaries among the Indians of Utah and the Indian tribes generally, it was my purpose to have made the subject embrace the Indians generally, although, by oversight, it was confined to the tribes in Utah, for the agent states that "there is perhaps not a tribe on the continent that will not be visited by one or more of these missionaries." As the subiect was deemed imuortant. it was uresented for vour considerations"aud advice with a v:ew to the sounaness of the policy of instructing the superintendents, agents, and sub-agents, through-out the Indian country, to watch with an eye of vigilance the move-ments of the Mormons ; and in case their efforts, under the guise of missionary labors, should tend to create a spirit of insorbordination among the Indians averse to the interests of the government, that they immediately notify the department. The intercourse act of 1834 provides, section 13th, "that if any citizen or other person, residing within the United Btates or the ter-ritory thereof, sball send any talk, speech, messaqe, or letter, to any Indian nation, tribe, chief, or indiv~dual,w ith an lotent to produce a contravention or infraction of any treaty or other law of the United States, or to diaturb the peace and tranquillity qf /he United States, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of two thousand dollars ;" and the last clause of section 13th reads as follows, viz: "or in case any citiaen or other person sball alienate, or attempt to alienate, the confidence of any Indian or Zndiam from the government of the United Slates, Be shdl forfeit the sum of one tlwzsand dollars." And again, it is provided by the 23d section ' I that it shall be law-ful for the military force of the Un~tedS tates to be employed in such |