War department 15 February 1799 Sir, I have directed a warrant to be drawn in your favor for two thou: sand five hundred and fifty dollars, which you are to distribute to the Indians, comprised in the Treaty of Canandaigua in such proportional shares as they may be respectively entitled to and desire, in implements of husbandry and utensils suitable to their circumstances and in compensating useful artifacts who shall recite with or near them and be employed for their benefit- The residue of their annuity on two thousand dollars will be vested in Goods and sent to you to be distributed as heretofore. You will also receive a warrant on the Treasurer of the United States, for eight thousand dollars, which you will pay to the Seneca Nations conformably to the Treaty held at Genesee, the eleventh day of the September 1797. You will also deliver to them the enforced talk and take from them a receipt on evidence of the delivery of the money, which is to be lodged with the accountant of the War department. I am Sir Your obt Servant James McHenry Mr. Israel Chapin