[undecipherable] and the requisition from the [undecipherable] councils to the boundaries and instigated by [undecipherable] William — [Marginalia written vertically along left edge, partially legible] Fort Agency 28 July 1800 To Bull Brothers & M[undecipherable] Since my communication to you of the [undecipherable] I have received his solicited report from [undecipherable] Majors of [undecipherable] a very valuable [undecipherable] men of those who had drawn out from the National Councils to be [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] these claims to the Indians in a more [undecipherable] light than any from that quarter since the advance of [undecipherable]. I have inclosed to the [undecipherable] the report upon [undecipherable] as it regards the persons in the other marked A C D I have — the from [undecipherable] stated first [undecipherable] month in 3 [undecipherable] intercourse we find the fact was notorious the [undecipherable] had several of his [undecipherable] prisoners who had been taken in aid of [undecipherable] parties and some are said [undecipherable] working their season for him and that [undecipherable] with the assistance of Muscos and [undecipherable] was maintained by [undecipherable] and his fellows [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have [undecipherable] inclosed in [undecipherable] and it is a good witness not [undecipherable] an account of his [undecipherable] in the acquisition of [undecipherable] chiefs to go on to [undecipherable] with his warriors, that he encouraged for his [undecipherable] have in the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to meet a [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] in the Chattahooche then we shall have the report of the [undecipherable] sent to S^t M[undecipherable] and [undecipherable] more [undecipherable] as may be deemed desireable and the present argument may appear. I will proceed to tell you on when the [undecipherable] detained my papers for the place of marking them for this [undecipherable] the estimate was approved, and the [undecipherable] of this in the [undecipherable] of many of those who returned more they [undecipherable] [undecipherable] out and then I have not heard of them — [undecipherable] principal result just now to soon that and others [undecipherable]