PERSONAL ACCOUNT. 







DEPARTAfRNT OF THE IXTKIUOR, 



Wash: nj! Oil, JpriJ 10, 1850. 



Sir : Your letter from 8an Diego, (without date,) enclosing papers marked 1 to 4, lias been 

 received. 



Tlic bill to supply deficiencies of appropriation for the present fiscal year, containing an 

 appropriation for the boundary service, has pa.s.s.d the House and is now before the Senate, hut 

 will not probably he disposed of by that body in time to enable me to forward a remittance to 

 you by the steamer whieli sails on the 13th instant. Funds will be sent to yon, however, by 

 the next departure from New York. 



Your views as to the further prosecution of the work are generally approvi d, but you will 

 receive more specific instructions by the next steamer ; and you will in the mean time go on as 

 you propose. 



Tlie monuments are in course of preparation, and will be sent ns soon as practicnhl.>. 



I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Major W. H. Emouy, U. S. A., San Dlcyo, Cah'/orma. 



T. EWIXG, Secrcianj 



Here is not only a distinct approval of my proceedings, but a promise thfif funds should be 

 sent by the next steamer. Yet it will challenge belief when I state no money was sent, and 

 the reorganization was practically repudiated by the appointment, for the second time, of a 

 commissioner {Mr. J. R. Bartlett) to succeed Col. Weller, and new assistants were appointed, 

 omitting all those appointed by me, under the authority and with the approbation of the 

 Secretary himself. 



To understand fully this extraordinary and inexplicable proceedings and to give a compre- 

 hensive view of the gross injustice done not only to the individuals, but to the government, it 

 must be borne in mind that we were co-operating with a foreign government in a great public 

 undertaking, and that the few assistants who remained^ faithfully performing their duties, did 

 so at the sacrifice of going to the mines of California, where certain wealth awaited all who 

 went at that time. 



Congress also, with a just liberality which always characterizes it when legislating for those 

 who are faithfully performing their duty, had voted ^30,000 to pay the deficiencies due this 

 very party. Not one cent of it was paid, as Congress designed, but it was improperly, if not 

 illegally, diverted from its channel and given to the new commissioner, who exjiended it before 

 he got on the ground, and incurred debts in addition far exceeding this sum. The persons for 

 ■whom this money was intended, who had honorably sacrificed the certainty of private fortune 

 to a sense of duty, were left in the field without pay and without subsistence. 



was 



perpetrated in a republican government. But when the fact became undoubted, and there was 



them 



to finish the line, as my instructions authorized me to do, in charge of a tried and faithful 



officer 



go to "W 



person their situation. It was all that could be done in the case, and nothing else could be 

 satisfactory after the clear breach of faith perpetrated twice, and in both instances, apparently, 

 without the shadow of excuse. 



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