[Copy of a letter from [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] June 12. 1799] [undecipherable] June 28. 1799 Sir, After M^r Joseph [undecipherable] arrive at this place — I gave papers with the June papers from you relating to the money for the [undecipherable] Nation being deposited in the bank of the United States, and under the Direction of the President, and also a Commission for laying off their respective reservations. The [undecipherable] Land [undecipherable] to meet them at [undecipherable]. I accordingly met them with M^r Elliott, supposing nothing more to be done but only to explain the business mentioned & give them a [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] of them; but you will see by the papers accompanying this, that they were for forming a new treaty & so many the other one concluded on at [undecipherable] under the authority of the United States. I endeavored to convince them they were going wrong, & that their ideas of the business were entirely [undecipherable], but nothing would serve to satisfy them but that [undecipherable] should [undecipherable] to go forward and urged that M^r [undecipherable] should go with them and at their expence. I informed them I could not give them the least encouragement of removing that would admit of the best alteration in the late treaty, except that part which [undecipherable] to an alteration in the [undecipherable] reserve - that I believed the President would be [undecipherable] that the long stripe of land along [undecipherable] is illy calculated for Indian improvement after the White [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are settled near it. I suppose be that this part of the business is of importance [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Indians & the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] appears to be a confined [undecipherable] to the President, & I believe is distinct matters in [undecipherable] and perhaps one or two on account [undecipherable] some private agreements not being as yet, fully complied with. You will see from their speeches, nothing is mentioned of the treaty being conducted unfairly or dishonestly as in a way in which they did not perfectly understand every part of it to their full satisfaction. The note enclosed Cap^t. [undecipherable] wished to have deposited in the bank of the United States and also for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be given by M^r [undecipherable], that he may draw the interest annually [undecipherable], this business however I believe has been done by M^r Bayard in New York. Allow me Sir to mention that I have told the Indians that the President of the US would not attend to those private trades, that what ever has been determined on by the Nation and agreed to by the Government, the United [undecipherable] would be strictly complied with, & whatever the Indians agreed to as a Nation on their part must be attended to in the same manner. I hope Sir you will give an answer as soon as convenient that they may see, they are not to trifle with agreements of a public nature, as they have but very little system at present & I resume no [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] the majority of their abiding agreements.