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name to these blanks as a witness, but ultimately, in the month of March, 1878, refused to comply unless filled up with the quantities actually issued. From that time he, the department, has never again been called upon to sign anything, and in the following month of June was discharged from the service by the said Agent. The deponent further states that the said Abbott when leaving the East to enter upon the duties of his office as Indian Agent, was accompanied, as he is informed, by a person named William Flint, ant that the travelling expenses of said person, by stage from Indian Creek to said Agency, a distance of about seventy-five miles, were by private understanding with the stage contractors, covered up as the Agent's individual expenses, thus charging the Government with a larger amount than would otherwise have been the case.

 The deponent further states that said Flint is carried on the rolls of employees as

Chief Herder, and drawing pay as such, although he has never, since his arrival at the Agency, in the month of January, 1878, done any service in that capacity, but is looked upon as a privileged

character and confidential friend of the Agent's signing his vouchers and passing his time as

he pleases.

 The deponent further says that the said Agent Abbott , in order to provide accomodations
for the travelling public, did after his arrival at the Agency, make arrangements with an outside party

f or enlarging the building used as kitchen and dining room, charging the Government, as he, the deponent, is credibly informed, with the supposed value of the whole work, although the greater portion of the same was done by the regular employs of the Agency/

 And further that he, the said Agent, is keeping what may be called a hotel, entertaining numerous
travellers, sometimes as many as eight or ten per day, charging and receiving fifty cents for each meal furnished, 

and selling them, such quantities of corn and oats as they require to feed their animals, and in order to provide such articles for the table as are not furnished by the Government, the Agent is in the habit of bartering Indian subsistence supplies for butter, fruits and other articles that the freighters and travellers may have