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Washington City D.C.
Dec 5th 1865
D.N. Cooley, Esq.
Comm. Indian. afairs.
Sir:
[I?][beg?} leave to enclose
the Power of atty. of Rudolph
Scherfel. Schoolmaster on the
Mendocino Indian Reservation,
and to ask that the ammount
due to him for his services from
the 1st day of April 1860 to the
3rd October A.D. 1860 be paid
at an early day.
I am
Very respectfully
yours [illegible]
John Ferguson
Atty