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Fort Wayne May 9 1846 Sir In a conversation yesterday you mentioned the four thousand dollars be furnished to the Miamis in pork and flour The year of their [illegible] 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 migratory or from the amount for the whole tribe . At the time that provision was inserted in the treaty of 1845. The late Chief Richardville gave us a reason that the [illegible] to a [illegible] west must not be sufficient to weaken the Miamians to receive [illegible] sufficient for support, that part of the tribe remains under treaty stipulations, [illegible] improvements, [illegible], leave land holders - What he I care is the sum of four thousand dollars taken out of the general annuity and paid out in pork and flour to be furnished to that part the tribe moving west. This was fully understood at the time by the contract.