& intercourse?] with the Indians [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] it is very [undecipherable: painful?] to my [undecipherable: feeling?] All Citizens [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] our [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have been well [undecipherable] of affairs heretofore being [undecipherable: connected?] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] creates a [undecipherable: connection?] military [undecipherable: orders?] discouraging [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] & Citizens [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] big large flocks of cattle [undecipherable] [undecipherable: dealers?] with [undecipherable] as belong to the [undecipherable: garrison?] [undecipherable: driving?] the adjacent [undecipherable: range?] & cattle on [undecipherable: pasture?] [undecipherable] cattle to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable: Indians?] [undecipherable] made complaints of the cattle [undecipherable: going beyond?] [undecipherable] they may with [undecipherable] cattle [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] end of [undecipherable] no right to [undecipherable: graze?] cattle to [undecipherable] [strikethrough: within the treaty] I don't know but if there was a preference given [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] to [undecipherable: purchase?] as [undecipherable] he might buy of the factory it would be an inducement [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] to [undecipherable: him?] buying [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] to [undecipherable] I have always offered them as low as they could get [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the cattle are [undecipherable] good [undecipherable] but from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have been [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] they must keep [them?] off [undecipherable] opposed to [undecipherable] & sometimes [undecipherable] improperly 'I have objected to [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable: garrison?] [undecipherable] — with the [undecipherable: Indians?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is practically fixed on [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Sec'y?] of War instruction & the [undecipherable: Governor?]' at the [undecipherable: treaty?] [undecipherable: post?] [undecipherable] and the matter is attended with many [undecipherable: inconveniencies?] [undecipherable] we [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] we [undecipherable] with the Military in [undecipherable: regard?] to our rights I [undecipherable] their regulation rights [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the discipline of the [undecipherable: garrison?] if our [undecipherable: frontiers?] in these cases were [undecipherable] by the heads of the [undecipherable: departments?] it might probably be a means of promoting [undecipherable: harmony?] between us I would wish to do nothing to [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] the subordinates of the troops & [undecipherable] with any regulations for this purpose but cannot help thinking we ought to be considered [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] from common [undecipherable: fellows?] of [undecipherable] should not be [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] this rigid discipline [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as a check [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my title being of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the instance of various description of Citizens who [undecipherable] they an too much power to [undecipherable] of any kind [undecipherable] No [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] have been rather [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] having [undecipherable] [undecipherable] some [undecipherable] [undecipherable] money [undecipherable] here [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from — the south Nation and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable: Governor?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Creeks entering on the [undecipherable: nation?] to [undecipherable] an [undecipherable: occasion?] to the [undecipherable: French?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] There [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] otherwise always [undecipherable] [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] [undecipherable] well [undecipherable: considered?] [undecipherable] they [undecipherable] [undecipherable] require from regulations [undecipherable] [undecipherable] education [undecipherable]