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[red ink] 1872
are exasperated by the continual depredating to which they are subjected from Mexicans and Indians located in Mexico, and there is no certainty that this exasperation will not assume a retaliatory form if the depredations continue, and they will continue so long as Indians are permitted to remain in Mexico and make of it an asylum from which they can with impunity depredate upon the Texas frontier. Dec 19 4 Encl Dec 20 72, Copies of 27 18 & 19 D.T. herewith enclosed
Sgd, C C Augur Brig Genl USA Commanding [red ink] Official (Sgd) G. B. Russell [red ink] A.A. A.G