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Show induced to do by their philanthropy, and the special request of the Superintendency, to carry out the pacific policy of the Department. The letters relating to a mule, supposed to be government property, sent to Major Holeman under an envelope directed to me, are in his possession, as also the mule in question; and he will doubtless furnish the department all necessary information on that subject. The few remaining items vouched for, are either the legal predescribed routine or the business of the department, and I trust need no further explanation. In all the expenditures, as per the accompanying abstract, I have been governed as the strictest principles of economy consistent with my judgement and justice in the case; and as it is almost impossible in a newly settled country where the people are poor to effect without prompt payment, I have therefore paid the accounts with the exception of a draft on the Department in favor of Dimick B. Huntington for $235; and shall draw in my fa.vor payable to my agent for $8,845.77 being the balance due me for disbursments for the two last quarters as per accompanying account current. I take the liberty to again call the attention of the Department to the propriety of some person or persons being authorized to make treaties with the Indian tribes of the Territory, to purchase portions of their lands and to grant them reasonable annuities, that they may not on the one hand fade injustly from the earth by neglect and starvation, nor on the other be induced to plunder our citizens, or become an onerous burden on a sparse population struggling for a scanty subsistence amid much privation, until energy severe toil, and time shall develop the comfort and conveniences of civilized life, and would further suggest that such |