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name and take the necessary money [illegible] with
me to meet the [illegible] of this District as I do
not wish to contract a debt [illegible] the term I very
[illegible] the office.

Employees have another serious objection to taking
drafts as they are obliged to pay from two to five
per [illegible] to get them collected & many [illegible] expenses

Very Respectuflly Your
Obedient Servant
E. Steele
Superintending Agt Indian
Affairs N. D. Cal

To
Hon. Wm. P. Dole
Commissioner
Washington D. C.