001

Office Supt of Indn. Affairs
G.S.L. City Sept. 12th 1857.

Hon James W. Denver
Commissioner of Indn. Affairs
Washington City D.C.

Sir:-

Enclosed please find
Abstract account current and vouchers from
1 to 35 inclusive (also abstract of employees)
for the current quarter up to this date, as owing
to the stoppage of the mail I have deemed
it best to avail myself of the opportunity of
sending by private conveyance, not knowing
when I may have another chance. The
expenditure as you will observe by the papers
amount to $6411.38/100 for which I have
drawn my drafts on the department in
favor of Hon. John M. Bernhisel delegate
to Congress, from this Territory. You will
also observe that a portion of those expenditures
accrued prior to this quarter, which
may need a word of explanation. Santa
Clara is in Washington County the extreme
southern County of this Territory and
this labor was commenced and partly
performed, Seeds, grain &c furnished prior
to the time that Major Armstrong visited
those parts of the Territory, hence failed to
find its way into his reports and