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In a conversation yesterday you mentioned the four thousand dollars to be furnished to the Miamis in pork and flour the 2d year of their residence west of the Mississippi to be taken out of their annuity for that year: enquiring will it be deducted from the amount to be given to those emigrating or from the amount for the whole tribe. At the time that provision was inserted in the treaty of 1840. The late Chief Richardville gave as a reason that the improvements to be made west would not be sufficient to enable the Miamies to raise corn sufficient for support, that part of the tribe remains under treaty stipulations, had improvements, were land holders - that he wanted the the sum of four thousand dollars taken out of the general annuity and laid out in pork and flour to be furnished to that part the tribe moving west. This was fully understood at the time by the contracting