Instructions to Army Officer Commanding In Georgia, Relative to Relations with the Indians

Instructs the presiding U.S. Army officer in Georgia (Major Constant Freeman) in his powers, relating to the sending of a new Indian agent to manage trade & intercourse with the Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians. These include the granting of permits to those doing business with the Indians, the sending of quarterly returns to report on all such people and their respective businesses, the relations and communications between Freeman and the new agent, Benjamin Hawkins, and the powers for punishing and prosecuting transgressors of the new regulations concerning the Indians.

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