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 76 FEDERAL REPORTER. �to the business of his agency, — of which $3,975.41 was applicable to the erection of a hospital, school, and dwalling-house ; $1,568.44 to the payment and subsiatence of specified employes; $121.93 to beneficiai objects under article 2 of the treaty of June 25, 1855, with the Indians of middle Oregon, (12 St. 963;) and |135.23toexpenses, — and the remaining $1,897.65 of money received by the agent on the checks of Superintendent Hnntington drawn on the assistant treasurer at San Francisco, dated May 5 and paid May 19, 1865. �Some time early in June, 1865, Agent Logan appears to have taken his wife to San Francisco for medical treatment, where he remained until July 28th, when they sailed for Oregon on the steamer Brother Jonathan, and, on July 30th, were both lost by the founder- ing of the vessel off Crescent City, California, with all their effects then on board. �For this reason, I suppose, no account of moneys expended at the agency in charge of the deceased after March 31, 1865, was returned or is found in the treasury transcript ; but it is quite certain that the business of the agency went on as usual during Logan's absence, and that the funds applicable to the payment and subsistence of em- ployes and current expenses were disbursed by the person in charge for the quarter ending June 30, 1865. It is also very probable that the portion of the funds on hand and applicable to the erection of the buildings being erected on the agency was largely expended dur- ing this quarter. It was not the policy of the department or the law to advance an agent at any time more funds than were needed for the expenditures of the current quarter. �The probabilities then are that this sum of $6,781.01, that agent Logan reported on hands on March 31, 1865, was all, or nearly all, expended on the reservation by the end of the quarter following, and that upon the death of himself and wife there was no one left with inter- est enough in his affairs to have his accounts for the period subsequent to March 31, 1865, made up and forwarded to the department with the propervouchers. The remaining $1,897.65 ismadeupin the treasury statement in this way : On April 29 and May 8, 1865, Logan appears to have receipted to Superintendent Huntington for the sums of $2,500 and $500, respectively ; and on May 19, 1865, the superintendent's checks on the assistant treasurer at San Francisco, for the sums of $2,000 and $1,000 respectively, and dated May 5, 1865, payable to William Logan or bearer, were paid to bearer, whoever that may have been, at that office. It seems to be admitted or taken for granted in the ��� �
 * reasury statement that these two checks represent the money that