MF1323.1197 Reel 40_0303

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Copy Instruction to Sup't Maltby June 12/65

Copy Department of the Interior Office Indian Affairs June 12, 1865

Sir

In reference to the subject of the purchase of improvements in Hoopa Valley, and of the personal property of settlers therin, submitted to this Office by communications from your predecesor dated March 22nd I have to state that the papers in the case were referred to the Secretary of the Interior with report of April 22nd ult, of which copy is enclosed, as well as of the Secretary's decision thereupon. There remaining some doubt as to whether it was intended that the personal property was intended to be embraced in the amount for which appropriation was made by Congress, the subject was again referred to the Secretary, and of his decision thereupon dated June 9th inst, a copy is enclosed as a basis for the instructions herein I transmit a copy of the act of Congress of March 3rd 1865 appropriately [$60,000?] to pay for the improvements and lest proper copies of the papers in the case may not have been retained, I also forward copies of all that have been laid before the Department. An examination of these various enclosures will enable you to apprehend the instructions for your guidance, which follow:

The law of March 3/65 contemplating a new [appraisal?] by the "Superintendent of Indian Affairs, the Indian Agent at the reservation, and the Surveyor General of California," you will immediately on the receipt of this

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