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the disbursement as well as the Superintendent. In fact
the whole amount would be disbursed within ten days.
The sum of $200,000 having been appropriated for the
service of the Indian Department in this state for this
fiscal year and none of it having been disbursed
it will cause a great clamor, if these accounts are
not speedily paid

Indian affairs are in a deplorable condition
in this state. The Indians are stealing & burning
houses, and the white men killing them in revenge.
The Governor is ordering out volunteers and
the Indian War debt for this year will largely
exceed the amount appropriated by Congress. The
extermination of the Indians is inevitable unless the
reserves are kept up as a protection and the Indians
made to labor on them or some other system devised
to support them without depredating upon the
property of our citizens

With great respect
Your obt sert
Wm M Gwin