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San Francisco Cal
August 15th 1865

Sir,

Having waited thiss [this] long hoping to hear something regarding the payment of my accounts and failing to receive
any advice concerning them I am constrained to address you upon the subject.

When upon the 5th of last May I was relieved by Mr Maltby I had not been in receipt of funds for the payment of the expenses of my Superintendency later than to the 1st of Jan. 1865. During the four and one fifth months intervening
the expenses were unusually heavy owing to the large crops sowed upon all the reservations and especially at Hoopa where we were obliged to purchase seed as well as subsistence for the Indians.

Trusting to have received my appropriation at the proper time I anticipated it by purchasing articles required and did not hesitate to incur indebtedness where I considered the good of the service demanded it. While I greatly regretted the neccesity of this course I was left no other for it must be apparent that I had to choose between running the Dept in debt or allowing the whole system to go to ruin and the Indians to starve. The consequence is that having re