MF1323.1197 Reel 39_1117

California [illegible] [War?] Department April 21, 1864

Refers letters in this subject of registering [illegible] Indians who [are?] suffering [illegible]

Ref to Commission of Ind. Affairs [illegible] May 1864 [illegible] White

War Department Washington City Afpril 21st 1864

The Secretary of the Interior Washington, D.C.

Sir: The Secretary of War instructs me to transmit to you the accompanying copies of correspondence, transmitted from San Francisco, California, to the Commissary General of Subsistence, on the subject of the support of Indians at Fort Yuma; and to request that instructions be given to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to take the necessary measures indicated in the reference to this Department thereon endorsed.

I have the honor to be Your obedient Servant C. A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War