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and what is their amount? Answer: Department of War Office Indian Affairs 2nd March 1842 Sir, I have had the honor to receive your communication of 28th ulto: requesting answer to certain interrogations, accompanying the letter. With every disposition to impart information to gentlemen even remotely connected with the service of this office, I cannot recognize your right to call on me officially for formal answers to the inquires now made. The regular course, when it is necessary for citizens of the United States to obtain information, is to address the War Department. Upon submitting your letter to the Secretary of War, he instructed me to request, that you would transmit to him such papers as you had now prepared, and report so far as you had progressed in the duties committed to you. With great respect Your Mo: ob: servant T Hartley Crawford. J Howard Payne Esq Washington, D.C.