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application or proposal, and as I know just what I want you will pardon me for giving a rough draft of it here:- To Hon. J. D. Cox, Sec'y. of the Interior or [underline] Hon. Eli Parker, Con'r. Indian Affairs Washington [underline] " In the event of his leaving the service, under the recent law, Captain Henry E. Alvord, U.S.A. desires to perform for your Department all the Surveys of Indian Reservations in Kansas and the Indian Territory. Capt. Alvord was Adjutant of my present regiment during its organization and subsequently Captain, serving with the regiment about [strike] over