This application requires immediate decision, but before
final action can be had thereon it is desired to have some official
information as to the report of the commission above referred to.
Accordingly, I have the honor to request that you will cause this
Department to be furnished as early as possible with the information
desired in the premises, and also with a copy of the report, if any has
been made by the commission.
Very respectfully, etc.,
GEO. W. McCLELLAN,
_Second Assistant Postmaster-General_.
FEBRUARY 3, 1868.
Referred to the General of the Army for report.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
_Secretary of War_.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, _January 29, 1868_.
The Honorable SECRETARY OF WAR.
SIR: It is represented to this Department that a band of robbers has
obtained such a foothold in the section of country between Humboldt and
Lawrence, Kans., committing depredations upon travelers, both by public
and private conveyance, that the safety of the public money collected by
the receiver of the land office at Humboldt requires that it should be
guarded during its transit from Humboldt to Lawrence.
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