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Horton Oct 3rd 1807

I will thank you to let me know whether I am to supply the Indians with any more necessaries and what amounts. Whatever sum you think proper to Allow I think you had better give me discretionary power to give them ( [illegible]) I can better judge of the exigency of their respective situations & wants, than what you may at a distance.
I had made them promises in consequence of