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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated 25th ultimo, has been received, and by direction of the President is hereby accepted to take effect upon the appointment and qualification of your successor.
Very respectfully, etc. C. SCHURZ Secretary.
Through the Com ms. of Ind. Aff.
[Gift from C. Ross Hume, Anadarko, Oklahoma]
No. 242 ANNUAL REPORT FROM E. 0. C. ORD
Headquarters Department of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, October 2, 1878.
To the Adjutant General, Military Division of the Missouri, Chicago, Illinois. Sir: I have the honor of submitting my annual report, with ab- stracts and documents marked "A" to "G," inclusive. "A." -Roster of Troops, indicating posts, sub-posts, etc., and their garrisons. "B." -Movement of Troops since my last annual report. "C." -Statement of Expeditions and Scouts, and the dis- tances marched-total, 20,360 miles. "D.', -Copy of a letter from Judge Paschal, relating to the alleged attack upon a certain Lipan camp which had remained for over a year in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, a Mexican town, and under the protection of the town's people, who were profiting by traffic of the plunder brought by the Indians from Texas. It will repay perusal, and explain some of the peculiarities, which are not generally understood, of a Mexican frontier town; referring to which Emory, page 86, of his Report of Mexican Boundary Survey, has said: "The relations between the Indians of this region and several of the Mexican towns, particularly San Carlos, a small town
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