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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 polls 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