JAMES BUCHANAN.

[Footnote 6: Relating to Indian affairs in Oregon and Washington

Territories and to the official conduct of Anson Dart, superintendent

of Indian affairs in Oregon Territory.]

WASHINGTON CITY, _May 13, 1858_.

Hon. James L. Orr,

_Speaker of the House of Representatives_.

SIR: I herewith transmit, to be laid before the House of

Representatives, the letter of the Secretary of the Interior, dated the

12th instant, covering the report, maps, etc., of the geological survey

of Oregon and Washington Territories, which has been made by John Evans,

esq., United States geologist, under appropriations made by Congress for

that purpose.

Respectfully,

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