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San Francisco Cal
March 23rd 1865

Hon Wm. C. Dole,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Sir,
I have the honor to return herewith the accounts and vouchers of Geo. M Hanson late Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Northern District of California, with a [series?] of explanatins given by [M?] Hanson in answer to the [expections?] taken by your Department.
When your letter of [illegible] dated January 12th 1864, reached San Francisco I was about on official business in Arizona. On my return, in April, I took up the accounts but could not find the principal parties to which reference is made. Since that period I have visited several of the Indian tribes of Nevada, and have been much [illegible] in making up my notes. M Hanson has written to me several times in relation to his accounts, and I have always answered what I was ready at any time to confer with him and agree upon [illegible] plan of settlement. As he did not wish to [illegible] the [expence?] of coming down to San Francisco, I sent him at his urgent request the list of excetions to his vouchers and expenditures and have at length received his explanations, which are herewith transmitted.