TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
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" Interpreter two days 19 " 19 yards Red Flannel at. 50c " 13 looking glasses at 25c " 1 Box rouge 1.50 1 pipe 50c
4.00 9.50 4.25 2.00 5.00 8.00 4.50
" 4 # powder 75c. per #. 1 Sword 2.00 " 1 fine Sword present to chief Santa Anna " 10 # Tobacco 2.50 1 handkerchief $2 " 3 yards blue jeans 37½c " 71 peloncillos @ 121; 2 c " 4 # lead @ 18'1/.~c " Bread " Amt. paid interpreter paid th~ same for provisions for Comanche Meat grease and bread
1.12½ 8.87½
-75
1.31¼ 5.00
6.00
$84.81¼
Rece•ived and approved a,c of 84 81¼. dollars of which the foregoing is a copy- WM G COOKE Secy of War & Marine lt:;ulurscd] J . Hays pr W. G. Cooke Aug. 3/45. $. 84. 81 ¼
No. 260 LETTER FROM THOMAS G. WESTERN TO TORREY AND BROTHERS Indian Bureau Washington 22 July 1845 Messrs' Torrey & Co.- Gent. It becomes my duty again to notify you that no invc,ice of Goods taken to the trading House has been rendered to this office through the Indian Agent as required by law for wh'ich I refer you to Sec. 10. of Act ap- proved 14 Jan. 1843.-I have further to say to you that meas- ures will be taken withou~ delay to enforce this law, provided it is not strictly complied with forthwith- Respectfully Yr. obt St. T G WESTERN Supdt of Ind. Aff.
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