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OFFICE INDIAN AFFAIRS, NORTHERN DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA.
Yuba City, Aug 29th 1861
Hon. Wm P. Dole
Sir Enclosed please find sundry claims of previous employees on the certificate of my predecessors — Henley & Dreibelbis. Some of which have been paid in doubt, on the [illegible] of the claimants — I no not whether I am positively authorized to administer an oath (as you will see I have done) upon the information of my predecessors) as I have no laws in my possession whatever
It would be removing a great annoyance if these old claims were all disposed of as easily as possible.
If they are just and unpaid; it certainly will embarrass the present Superintendents in procuring new recruits to render similar services, when these claimants are now offering to sell their claims at a great discount.
I have the honor to be &c Geo. M. Hanson Supt Agt Ind Affs N. Dist.