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and make a thorough and searching investigation of the charges professed against Agent Patten. The charges against him, are of a serious character, and seem to be well founded. He is charged with loaning out annuity goods, with dealing in the same, that hie employes also engage inthat business. He is also charged, with keeping immense herds of cattle upon the reservation, belonging to persons who are permitted to live upon the reservation in violation of law, to make extensive improvements thereon, which are inimical to the interests of the Indians - that liquor is freely used at the Agency by the Agent and his Employes, and that liquor is sold by the Indian Traders More?, to Citizens and Soldiers by the glass, bottle