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Treasury Department
August 21st 1865

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst requesting that the Assistant Treasury of the United States at San Francisco, Cal. be instructed to buy a check drawn by Austin Wiley late Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Calafornia [California] for four hundred and thirty dollars now held by [Initials?] Lake. The necessary [illegible?] has this day ben sent.

I have the honor to remain
sig? Wm [William] E. [Chandler?]
Asst Secretary

Hon. Jas [James] Harlan
Secretary of [Interior?]
Washington D.C.