July 2^d 1788. [underline: Additional Instructions to the Governor of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio, relative to the Treaty to be held with the Western Indians in pursuance of the resolutions of Congress, passed in October last.] Sir, An additional sum of twenty thousands dollars has been appropriated for the purposes of procuring a permanent peace with the Indians tribes, with which you are authorized to hold a treaty. This sum and six thousands dollars out of the fourteen thousand heretofore appropriated for holding the said treaty are particularly devoted to be applied solely to the purpose of obtaining a boundary advantageous to the United States, between them & the said Indian tribes, and for further extinguishing by purchase Indian titles [undecipherable: as far as it] can be done on terms beneficial to the Union. But it is not expected that any further purchases of lands will be made unless on terms evidently advantageous to the United States, or that any parts of the said additional sum will be expended, but in cases apparently necessary. In fixing a boundary between the United States with the Indian tribes, instead of the East and West line mentioned in your Instructions, you will endeavour to establish an East and West line as far North as the completion of the forty first degree of North Latitude. In your negotiations with the Indians, you will make immediate payments so far as you shall have monies in hand; but in case you shall find it necessary to engage any considerable part of the said Additional sums, you are to stipulate, that the payments thereof be made in two or three equal annual instalments, the first to be as late in the year 1789 as can be obtained. Chas Thomson. Sec^y