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trouble in dealing with cases of this kind, even up to the time of my being relieved from that Command in 1870. My correspondence on these subjects was frequent and sometimes quite extensive, sometimes with citizens, sometimes with Headquarters Mil. Div. of Pacific,_ Adjutant General,_ Treasury Dept,_ Russian fur Company &c. In my first report a few days after the transfer in Nov: 1867 I alluded to the fact, that I was not satisfied with the transfer or rather non transfer of public buildings, but as the Russian fur Company had a considerable length of time allowed it in which to close its business and leave the territory, I could not act, - they, by construction of the treaty, could hold and occupy these buildings for a considerable time, which they did, and its true, in the mean time the Russian Governor disposed of many buildings to citizens, which in my judgement he should have turned over to the United States Government, in other words he sold the property and signed the deeds as chief Factor of the Russian fur Company. Some of the deeds were warranty deeds!! at that. The history of these transactions can be