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duties provided that he be allowed extra expenses thus necessary incurred.

While in the present vacancy for this division that S.A.C. is forced to take temporary charge of it. I do not recommend that it be left without a resident officer. The distance from the [(?)] of the S.A.C. and his proper attention to his office duties would, in my opinion, prevent his given due time to the [(?)] and important counties in question. 

With reference, however to the principle of allowing extra compensation for the increased expenses of such frequent travelling as is required for the efficient performance of regular Bureau duty in the rural portions of the District, I strongly urge some modification of orders. The indorsements from the [(?)] of the May Gen'l Commission dated May 16th 1868 allowing in addition to the "cost of transportation, whatever [(?)] officers may pay for subsistence over and above what it would have cost them had they remained at"