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three times a day. the running time being ordinarily thirty five to forty minutes. Over that road as one of the directors I have free pass & can therefore visit Oldtown [Old Town] at any time that occasion shall require be the weather fair or foul. Besides the Indians are more or less scattered all along the river. Quite a settlement is located just above this city on the Brewer side where they live there year round and many of them spend a good part of the warm season below this place.

Just this once, if I am appointed Agent I shall have for my assistant my nephew Geo. L. Dillingham a resident of Oldtown [Old Town] now Treasurer of that town & doing business there. His father, (now dead) was appointed Agent by Gov A. P. Morrill & held the office one year till the this Wiles adminstration came in and another of different politics was appointed to the places under my brother, Geo became acquainted with every Indian in the tribe understands all their wants and predictings & is a great favorite with them He is as well (not to say better) qualified to discharge the duties of the office as any of the applicants for the place. He occupies my store directly in front of the Indian Island, and with such an assistant so located I do not see that any reasonable objection can be wise on the score of convenience. The duties