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Kamiah Nez Perce Res.   Idaho
Nov. 11        89

Hon. Commr of Indian Affairs.
Sir:

Your notice of the exceptions take to Voucher E. statement of Disbursements in my accounts for the Fourth Quarter 1889, is just received.

I would state in explanation as to why I did not put the names of the men which occur in Voucher E in the monthly report of Irregular Employees for June, was at the time these men were employed to assist the Surveyor, the opposition to the allotment by the tribe was so intense, and there was so much excitement concerning the Surveyor workings, that I could not get an Indian to work, nor would the Indians permit anyone to help the Surveyor. I therefore dispatched Mr Briggs to the reservation lines, twenty miles or more distant from the Agency bidding him to pick up stray white men as his assistants when he could not do the work on the reservation line alone, and I gave him some sub vouchers on which