[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not to expend 1 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 9^th of May 1796 [undecipherable] in connection with the Indian [undecipherable] [undecipherable] even more on the frontier [undecipherable] and to [undecipherable] you with the following rules in pursuance of the said law A general permit to trade, [Whereas as] may appear to you [undecipherable] in the or[der] [district] or whichever [nations], to pay the sum ___. And "A general licence to purchase horses of that [description] and [others] agreeing with the conditions of the law." [undecipherable] it is made that [this] commitment however, you will notice is [undecipherable] that you are authorised to grant them, and the Place etc. [undecipherable] has been made to you for that purpose. [Directions] as [shall] [be] [obtained] and [taken]. You will make [faithfully] [deliveries] to the Secretary of War [annually] of [persons] which you may license and will require of the traders that they shall not carry into the Indian country for [sale] any spirituous or distilled [liquors]. It will also never be [counted] in the [happy] [state] of [a] [undecipherable] if [occasion] is in excess [above] the property of [Indians] to [them] or others of whatever need will report to the Secretary of War; [I] return report to you within the [summer] of the violations of the aforesaid [act] without delay, for the administration and orders of the [President] and with report to the Indians forth of the [Ohio]. Should the [district] that attended it to be necessary that a note should be applied for their direction. [This] [This means Mr.] [authority] is committed to report to you the names of all persons coming into the Indian country to visit or of whom he has knowledge. The more a trade one continues with, without a proper notice, also [records] of all persons and [prices] being in the Indian country, and the names of all persons introduced to the Indian tribes [both of the deal]. [undecipherable] In for this reason [authority] is provided that as the [writer] knows is right, justly that may be taking further action or enforcing this rule. He is also to put forward an address or request for compensation or payment from the Indian [ages] only to the [factual] actions. [undecipherable] A warrant and transfer to [William], commanding time to have the necessarily present or service you enjoy [ever] granted by them and [the sum] and to the Secretary of [State] the name are committed under the fourth section and afterwards do and provide you that it may be taken for you. It being by it to the commission terms of times will be the laws that all offices is appointed the Government more than that [undecipherable] as protection, you will enforce those according to the act and documents as to your disposition to govern the person, and also a warrant of the Indians for the appointments, your office as it be may be brought to trial. Given at the Office of War, [Philadelphia,] [undecipherable] [September] the 1796 [signed] [Thomas] [undecipherable] To whom it may concern. [This] [undecipherable] hereby certifying strongly that [undecipherable] thereby be United States, to these Indian nations [undecipherable] as Indians coming on and the land from the [undecipherable] entitled to the act to regulate trade [undecipherable] and to persons, Indians and to present peace on the frontiers and [undecipherable] Indian that Government is kept [undecipherable] and to [undecipherable] given, action or new tried by community [undecipherable] within the province of the government and further [undecipherable] it is time [undecipherable] for it to be legal or [undecipherable]