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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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TC Rine B. F. Langford Foster Hester William Myrick Logan Mynek A. Mansfield Edward M Ross Harry Stevens John Geo Hegan A. W. Jackson Amasa Clark Albert Haidecker M. C. Click [Endorsed] March 7 Read and referred to Committee on Indian Affairs
No. 283 LETTER CONCERNING INDIAN SETTLEMENT [undated]
The principal embarrassment that the Indian Bureau appears to have felt in the conduct of her policy with regard to the In- dians of Texas, has been the want of some suitable locality for them within the confines of the State. This matter was freely discussed in a secret conference with Major Robert S. Neigh- bors, the U. S. Superintending Indian Agent for Texas; and he strongly urged the importance of some steps, on the part of this State, whereby such an arrangement could be effected. The Executive coinciding with the opinion of the Agent, had in view the "Joint Resolution" concerning Indian boundaries," approved February 16th 1853, in which the Legislature had made pro- vision, under certian restrictions, to meet this exigency ; but, the Department conceiving this Resolution contemplated that the General Government would take the preliminary steps in the matter, and no official actions thereon at Washington City having reached the Department until the receipt of a communi- cation from the Secretary of War, under date of the 19th Ul- timo, in reference to the subject, a copy of which is transmitted herewith, marked "A", The Executive decreed it advisable to defer any movement in the matter until the meeting of your- honorable [incomplete]
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