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PERSONAL ACCOUNT. 



At 



imm 



and 



duals, I certified to tlie correctaess of accounts, and tlie individuals sold tteni to shavers 



brokers. 



This necessity should never occur in government work, as it leads to speculation, and is 



of the government 



meet 



11 send me, with as little delay as possible, twenty 

 thousand dollars in cash, and cause thirty thousand to be placed to my credit either in New 

 Orleans or at Fort Brown. Should you do so, the requisition on the government, if complied 

 with, will not be used. 



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



W. H. EMORY 



John R. Bartlett, Esq., 



United States Commissioner 



ErxGGOLD Barkacks, Decemher 20, 1852. 



Sir : The drafts drawn by me, under authority of the Secretary of the Interior, and the drafts 

 sent me by you from El Paso, were all protested. Notice of this, and other circumstances 



I my control, caused me, in effect, to 



■ 



time' I have been, as directed bv the 



5th of November, since 



many of 



the employes have not been paid for a much longer time. As stated to you in conversation, at 

 Presidio del Norte, a panic seized a large number of the men — first, with the idea that they 

 never were to be paid, and, second, with a fear of the Indians. 



remote from 



men 



in service ; and upon the faith of orders from the dej 

 meeting you, I promised they should be paid and dischar 

 take the only remaining step left to enable me to redeem 

 is a dollar left, it may be distributed among these men. 



I desire now to 



officers and men in the service, and the amounts due to each up to 



ovember 20^ 1852. Subsequent revision of the accounts may 



The total amount of this list is |16,439 



7,000 



The pay, &c., up to this time will be, in addition..... 



To which is to be added a check for $12,000 drawn by you in my 

 favor, and turned over to T. W. Tansill, quartermaster of the 

 boundary commission, accepted by Messrs. Lewis & Groesbeck, 

 expended in drafts by Mr. Tansill^ and subsequently repudiated by 



Messrs. Lewis & Groesbeck 



12,000 



There is also due, chiefly in San Antonio, about |8,000, the amount 

 of the drafts drawn by me, under the authority of the Secretary, 



not accepted 



8,000 



43,439 



