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-positions grounded on the Presidents declarations to the Cornplanter, which I was enjoined to repeat, and on your particular instructions on this point )- lead to a seperate occupancy, and enjoyment of the land. The introduction of the art of Husbandry in its improved State was the great object, but improvements in husbandry could not take place without exclusive property, that the improver might enjoy the fruit of his labor - Neither could the improving husbandman exist without the Smith and the Carpenter, and his flax and wool would furnish employment to the spinner and weaver. These were all the Manual arts I mentioned, Instruction in the arts of reading and writing was at least equally desirable to the Indians, some of their chiefs have even manifested an anxiety to