[Docket on exterior: Refer of Congress / August 20^th 1788] By the United States in Congress Assembled August 20^th 1788 On the Report of A Committee to whom were referred Sundry letters from Colonel Martin — Resolved That Joseph Martin Esq^r be, and he is hereby appointed Agent for the Chickasaw nation of Indians together with the Cherokees with the powers that are described in the Act of the 19^th of June last. (Signed) Cha^s Thomson Sec^y. A true Copy H. Knox