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State of California

[Sinvarju? County] William
Bryson being duly sworn [deputy &]
says that he is the Supervisor of Smiths
Run Reservation that whilst acting
in that capacity and in the months
of July & August 1865 he received an order
from Geo M Hansen then [Superintending]
Agent of Indian Affairs for the Northern
District of the State of California [denoting]
this [department] [percent to Oregon] and
purchase a quantity of [mans] for said
Reservation and for that purpose to pay
the purchase money for said [mans] furnished
this [department] with drafts of the [farming?]
Assistant Treasury at San Francisco, that this
department] entered upon the discharge of his
duties and in the expectation of which incurred
traveling expenses which were paid out of
the [individual?] funds of this [department] and
which have since been reimbursed by the
present agent E Steele; that this department [known?]
in the execution of said commission paid
out of his own funds the sum of one hundred
dollars [ballan.] of purchase money on said
mans after exhausting the amount drawn
by the checks on the Assistant Treasurer which
said sum of one hundred dollars was included
in the vouchers sent to Mr. Hansen and he
[advise] of said [?advance?] with the expectation
as the [reciepts] are in his naime, that he [?]