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Office of Indian Affairs
San Francisco Cal
Dec 12th 1864

Sir.

In your letter of July 28th 1864 you desired me to make the necesssary effort to have the indebtedness of the Government on account of the Indian service in California presented to me with such information as may be to enable this Department to settle the same so far as the means are at my disposal. Subsequently under date of Oct 11th you instructed me to proceed in conjunction with late Agent Steele to settle certain claims or if such joint action was impracticable I was authorized to proceed alone. In my letter of Nov 10th replying to the latter I stated that I would correspond with Mr Steele and ascertain all I could in relation to the matter. On the 18th of Nov I addressed him requesting a reply at his earliest convenience but have received not a word from him in answer. I have therefore proceeded alone in the collection of these claims and have embodied them in an abstract which I respectfully transmit herewith accompanied by the original claim or a copy thereof upon which each account is based. This abstract comprises three lists, No 1 is composed of the indebtedness incurred during Mr Hanson's administration amounting to $24583.31.