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Round Valley Mendecino Co. Cal 15th May 64

Hon W P Dole Com Indian affrs

Sir

Yours of April 12th is just received as was
also yours bearing date 27th January but not
until after I had written you agent Steel notified
me to meet him here the first of April
to have my claims investigated I have done
as directed but Mr. J. Ross Brown was not
in attendance Mr Steel pretended to an investigation
but I have no faith in what he has
done being sufficient to enable me to draw
my pay he nearly took my own afidavits to the
facts I have the proper vouchers for the money that
I paid out for grain but the 66 dollars that I had
to pay for Storage [dragage?] on Indian goods and garden
seeds at [name?] that I had to pay or do
without for the season forty two dollars fifty cents
that that I paid expenses that [illegible] going
and returning from San Francisco ordered