Excerpt from Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington: Letter From the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, With a Copy of a Communication From the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington for Use in Reference to a Certain Agreement of August, 1851 The supervisor was instructed to confer freely with the Indian agents and superintendents in charge of reservations in order to locate all the Indians or their heirs, many of whom are scattered throughout the States of Oregon and Washington and do not belong to any agency. He was also directed to make the investigation as complete as possible, take testimony, examine the agency records and, in fact, exhaust every available source of information in his efforts to get at the facts with respect to those Indians and their heirs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.