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88 99. DUNCAN, Fort [left margin] February 9. 1874. Commanding Officer Fort Duncan, Texas. Sir:

            The Department Commander directs that the arms surrendered by Colonel Valdez at your Post in March 1872, be held subject to orders from these Headquarters.
                                                                      Very respectfully
                                                                      Your obdt. servant

621.D.T.'74. (Sgd) J. H. Taylor L. S. 98. D. T.'74. Asst. Adjutant General _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 130. A.G.O. [left margin] February 17. 1874. Adjutant General of the Army Washington, D. C. thro' Hdqrs. Mil. Div. of the Mo.

Sir:

                 I have the honor to invite attention to the enclosed slip cut from the telegraphic reports of a morning paper.  If this be authentic and the Southern Boundary of the Excepted District be correctly stated, it will seem to Embrace but five of the Posts in this Department, those in Northern Texas, and to leave without the benefits of the proposed measure of relief all those Officers serving at the remote Posts in Northwestern Texas, and on the Rio Grande frontier.
                In justice to those officers, I respectfully request that the Honorable Secretary of War call the attention of the Committee of Military Affairs in the Senate to this apparent omission and urge a rectification of this boundary.
               I would respectfully suggest that, omitting entirely any Southern boundary and regarding all the United States, West of the line drawn through Omaha, as the part to be benefitted by the bill in question, would meet more justly the claims