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were requested to take charge of them. Since which time the State has had no control of them. There has been used of the appropriation for their benefit $1,518.22, and refunded to the same $53.95 currency and $62. specie, derived from sale of property that had been purchased for them. There has been paid the Agent up to the time his services were dispensed with $166.66. Since they were taken charge of by the military subsistence in beef was purchased on the faith of the letter from the Indian Commissioner, under the direction of the Commanding Officer. All the necessary vouchers of these expenditures have been forwarded to the Dept. at Washington, and their payment requested. Also the original vouchers upon which money was p!iid out of the state Treasury have been forwarded as a first claim of the State against the General Government, and payment respectfully re- quested. The several changes in the Office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, doubtless, is the cause of no settled policy in regard to these Indians. The Executive has earnestly urged the necessity of either providing for these Indians in Texas near some U. S. Post on frontier, or of sending them back to the Wichita Agency in the Indian Territory. (Signed) J . w. THROCKMORTON Gov. of Texas [Endor~ed] "Extracts" Executive Department Tonkawa Indians

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No. 158 LETTER FROM C. POWER TOE. M. PEASE Comal Ranch. Spring Branch P.O.

Comal Cy. 22 Aug. '67

His Excellency Gov Pease. Dear Sir.

The Indians have been all thro' this Country the past moon, stealing Horses, and we are in a panic, in consequence