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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 1840.  The late Chief Richardville gave us a reason that the improvements to be made  west must not be sufficient to make the Miamies to [raise corn?] sufficient for support, that part of the tribe remains under treaty stipulations, had  improvements,  [illegible] land holders  - What he [illegible] 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.