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[[and here is handwritten note]]27540/92 [[and here is handwritten note]]
(Copy)
Board of Indian commissioners,
New York July 30, 1982.
Gen.T.J.Morgan, Commissioner.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir, 
I have your favor of yesterday. I was present and had part with special agent Leonard during two days in taking testimony on the Nez Perce reservation, in the matter of Agent Robbins.
The testimony given by the Indians who allowed the man Caldwell to use his name in his transactions with the Agent, is ample to justify the removal of the Agent. It was a fraudulent transaction & Robbins new it. The price was four dollars a ton above the market price.
The other testimony which I heard as to drinking and immoral transactions from other witnesses, was all bad, although the witnesses generally minimized it, but such things as were certified to, in an [[underlined]] Agent on a reservation [[/underlined]], are reprehensible in the extreme. An Agent should be a [[underlined]] high-toned man [[/underlined]];all evidence showed a man with wonderful little character, a low type man. If I was employing a man for [[underlined]] anything [[/underlined]], for my firm, I should not take Mr. Robbins [[underlined]] on his face [[/underlined]] --as I read him, aside from the evidence, he is a drinking man-- he can't look you in the eye, he has a down cast look.

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