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                                Copy 1. No 1.
                                Navajo Agency Fort Sumner, N.M.
                                                                  May 30th. 1868

Lieut. General W. T. Sherman 

    and Colonel S. F. Tappan
               Peace Commissioners

      In pursuance to your request, I have the honor to submit a report as to the condition of the Navajo Indians at the Bosque Redondo Reservation under my charge, and express my views in relation to their removal; their requirements, and their present reservation.
      On the 1st day of November. 1867, the Commanding Officer at Fort Sumner, N. M., Major C. J. Whiting, 3rd US Cavalry, transferred to my charge 7111 Navajo Indians, viz.:-
      2,157 under 12 years of age,
      2,693 women, 
      2,060 men,
      -----201 age and sex unknown.