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Feb 17 1871 Personally appeared William Madden who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that on the thirthieth day of June 1870 he received from Mr. T. G Buckely, Contractor for furnishing beef in the Kiowa & Comanche Indians, two heards of cattles, in the aggregate between nineteen hundred and two thousand head; that he received these cattle for the Indian agent, Mr. Lawie Tatum that they were immediately after wards given back to the possession of My Buckley who had made a contract to herd them for the government; that Mr. Buckley had another herd of about seventeen or eighteen hundred head of cattle in close proximity to the one received by deponent? for the Indians agent that several days afterwards a Board of army officers received for The government This second herd from Mr. T.G. Buckley that before they were received, the majority of the large cattle were taken from The herd first received and replaced by small cattle from the second herd about to be received, and that in addition unclear five hundred and seventeen head more or less were driven from the herd just received and driven into the herd about to be received and consequently