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Rh of which was placed in the sub-treasury at San Francisco, subject to the order of Governor Gaines, the remainder being invested in goods, shipped around Cape Horn.

The pay allowed the commissioners was eight dollars per diem; the pay of their secretary five. They were allowed the services of interpreters and servants, as many as desired, at such rates as they pleased, with their traveling expenses, and a mileage of ten cents. The commissioners did not get to work before April, 1851, and in a few weeks six treaties had been made with the fragments of tribes in the Wallamet valley, and the twenty thousand dollars expended, less about three hundred, which remained, when information was received that congress had abolished Indian commissions, and placed the business of treaty making in the hands of the superintendent alone.

Dart was now without money, and almost without help from sub-agents. Spalding, who had been assigned to the Umpquas, visited them but seldom, and his removal was asked for, E. A. Sterling being appointed in his place, but stationed at the mouth of the Columbia. In June the superintendent paid a visit to the tribes east of the Cascades, finding them quiet, and promising them pay in the future for their lands. He found the Cayuses reduced by their misfortunes to a mere handful, the warriors among them numbering only thirty-six men. Here, on the Umatilla, he selected a site for an agency; and proceeded to visit the former mission stations of Waiilatpu and Lapwai to ascertain the losses of the Presbyterians through the Cayuse war. The cost of this expedition for employés was fifty dollars a day, in addition to transportation, which was four hundred dollars to The Dalles only, the superintendent's salary, and other expenses. Transportation from The Dalles to Umatilla cost fifteen hundred dollars, besides subsistence. A feast to the Cayuses cost eighty dollars, and so on. The agency building erected on the Umatilla cost enormously, and was of little use, Wampole,