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not now sufficient for their now
stock.
The reason of this stock remaining
so long an my hands, is that my suce
ssors [successors] in office have never [illegible] in
condition to receive it. The changes in
Superintendents having been so frequently
they have never need the necessary
arrangements during their short time
of office, although application was duly
made successively to each one of
them as he came into office.
As an instance of the difficulty
attending the dilivery [delivery] of stock I will
[maintain?] that at the time of my ret
iring from office, there were some six
hundred head of cattle on my prop
erty account, running in Nome Cult
Valley and on the Reservation grounds - which
Supt. McDuffie refused to receive because he
had no horses to brand them. They have re
mained to this day in my hands and it will
be seen by my [illegible] that I have accounted
for them by certificates of issue, as they