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Very respectfully, Your obedient servant unclear Secretary

Hon E.S. Parker Commissioner of Indian Affairs Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs Washington, D.C. June 21, 1871.

Sir: Inasmuch as the Military Authorities under the construction given to the circular letter of this office to Superintendents and Agents, dated the 12th of June, 1869? are unwilling to pursue and arrest criminal and predatory Indians, when within the Indian Territory, and to recover from them stolen property and captives taken into said Territory, it has been deemed advisable and expedient that the circular letter in question shall be so far modified as to permit, hereafter, and until it shall be deemed necessary to direct otherwise, the military to enter into the Indian Territory and upon the reservations therein at all times for these purposes. I am advised by the Secretary of the Interior