[Extract of a letter from General Knox to Governor [undecipherable] at Philadelphia Nov 19^th 1791 Your consens for appointing three deputies to act with the Cherokees, Chickasaws, [undecipherable] Choctaws are complete, five, and the business will probable be acted upon decisively by the President of the United States, as soon as a law shall be passed, ascertaining their duties and compensations. "The closing paragraph of this letter affords me pleasure. I am authorized by the President of the United States, to tender you his thanks for the able manner in which you conducted the Treaty, and for the zeal you uniformly evinced to promote the interests of the United States, in endeavouring to fix a peace on the basis of justice and heumanity. — and I beg leave to add Sir, that in pursuance of so good a work, you will never want the firm support of the Supreme execution of the United States."