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property, and received a consideration for the crops in the ground, all the material on the premises, and delivered the key of the house in my presence, to B.F. Hutches, Agent for Thos. Chubb, who sends a communication with a request that you will put him in possession of the property.  the said Hutches having exhausted every means in his power, to gain possession of his property through the civil Court, applies to you to do, what the law cannot or does not do.  the excuse is that they cannot get a Jury that can take the oath, his claim is a just one, I am evidence to that fact.

I wish that I could drop this mans name from my Report, and never mention it again, but he has committed another offence for which he is responsible to the Government.

In my last report, I stated that one of my soldiers had deserted on the 28th of May, this boy's name is Elisha H. Snyder, a private of the 26th U.S. Infantry. 

While on my way To Austin on the 2nd of June, he was arrested on the plantation of a Jno Gurway,  and brought to me. I sent him back to Marlin, and had him put in Jail where he now remains.  I had occasion to use this Snyder, previous to his desertion, to guard the body of A.P. Delano, while he was under arrest by order of the Federal Court. (the Sheriff declining to guard him any longer.