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Peru Indiana 19 August 1846

Sir, I have the honor to enclose ( unrecognizable) a certificate statement of proceedings and present of the council held by me with the Miami Indians yesterday and today. The result has been such as I anticipated in my letter to you of the 18th, and was brought although by the trades in the manner indicated In that letter .

The traders have assured the Indians that the president of the United States had their matter in his hands (unrecognizable) was arranged. They had an assurance from the president . that he would reconsider the whole matter. All this of course knew to be false. But ( unrecognizable) who had invited ( unrecognizable) affirmed that the president so promised here and the Indians in ( unrecognizable) have believed him.

The answer of the chief merely a ( unrecognizable) of who slang that has been here by the trades for who last week. and the insulting language of the chief in cheating of some of the offices of the governor ( unrecognizable ) That a majority of the tribe look whose own government with respect.

I have said to the Indians that I should ask the government to authorize their removal by force , and that if was highly ( unrecognizable) that such authority would be given ; and I now make application to the ( unrecognizable) for the adoption of such (unrecognizable) as may be considered adequate and proper to success the emigration of the Miamies - A very small force will be sufficient. A company from some hand would