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of the Department. The Commissary Genl regrets to see the frequency of these complaints of the Commissary Dept. from the posts above, and he is unable to see any reason why occasion need be afforded for them. The government is liberal in providing for the wants of troops at frontier posts and expects that what it provides should be properly and carefully distributed and no reason is known why these expectations should not be fully carried out in this Dept. In case of a few articles allowance must be made for climate, but generally, and particularly articles of such necessity as Hams, Sugar, Tomatoes &c, there can be no good reason why, that posts in this Dept. should be without them, and the reason assigned by the Chief Commissary why McKavett is without them is not regarded as sufficient. Neither is the statement that a shipment will soon be made there of such articles as he may have on hand. If the articles required are not on hand, immediate steps should be taken to procure them and to keep constantly on hand a sufficient supply of every article on the supply table to meet the demand of troops in the Department. When commissary Stores are ready for any post the Chief Quartermaster should be notified, and he will determine when they can be sent. Empty wagons have recently gone to McKavett which could have carried all the Stores necessary for the post. This post too has been without green tea for some time, and officers put to inconvenience without apparently good reason. D.T. July 10 1872

By Command of Genl Augur (Sgd) J. A. Augur Actg. Asst. Adjt Genl.

A.G.O. [red ink] 1563

Endorsement on Report of Comdg Officer Ft. Richardson concerning the protection of this border to the Adjt. Genl U.S.A. dated June 29 1872 [red ink] 2090 D.T. 1842 Respectfully forwarded through Div. Hq. This I think is about the hundredth plan I have seen for putting an end to indian raids and has about the average merits and defects of the others. If Col. Buell had supplemented this plan by another, compelling raiding parties to keep within sight of his signal stations when starting on their raids it would have been more satisfactory. He is right however in saying that the present system is defective, and so will any other that limits