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... Major General Thomas S. Jesup , then commanding the army in Alabama , with the Creek tribe of Indians 67,490 00 51,000 00 299,566 34 1,500 00 12,000 00 2,100,383 33 H. R. No. 697 . For carrying into effect the treaty between the United ...
... Major General Thomas S. Jesup , then commanding the army in Alabama , with the Creek tribe of Indians 67,490 00 51,000 00 299,566 34 1,500 00 12,000 00 2,100,383 33 H. R. No. 697 . For carrying into effect the treaty between the United ...
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... Major 8th Infantry , Special Commissioner . Hon . J. C. SPENCER , Secretary of War . WASHINGTON CITY , April 28 , 1842 . SIR : On the 28th of September last , I received a letter from the then acting Secretary of War , of which the ...
... Major 8th Infantry , Special Commissioner . Hon . J. C. SPENCER , Secretary of War . WASHINGTON CITY , April 28 , 1842 . SIR : On the 28th of September last , I received a letter from the then acting Secretary of War , of which the ...
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... Major A. J. Raines , of the 13th of February , 1840 , addressed to the Indian office , and purporting to give a copy of a letter of instructions from Mr. Harrison , the partner of Glasgow , to himself , then an agent of that contractor ...
... Major A. J. Raines , of the 13th of February , 1840 , addressed to the Indian office , and purporting to give a copy of a letter of instructions from Mr. Harrison , the partner of Glasgow , to himself , then an agent of that contractor ...
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... Major Pilcher's report , which appears to refer to one single contract - that for feeding 8,000 Cherokees . ( See Captain Armstrong's letter No. 100 , and the contract No. 46. ) Contracts are given to the lowest bidder competent to ...
... Major Pilcher's report , which appears to refer to one single contract - that for feeding 8,000 Cherokees . ( See Captain Armstrong's letter No. 100 , and the contract No. 46. ) Contracts are given to the lowest bidder competent to ...
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... to name , of providing false scales at Webber's depot , could not be laid to the door of the contractors , for a subordinate might have provided them . But the letter from Major Raines to the Commissioner of Doc . No. 219 . 23.
... to name , of providing false scales at Webber's depot , could not be laid to the door of the contractors , for a subordinate might have provided them . But the letter from Major Raines to the Commissioner of Doc . No. 219 . 23.
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