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    Confidential suggestions as to how the Treaty with the Pottawotamies may be made viz:              March 1846

Sent Majr. Andrews & one or two other persons with him as Commissioners or send him alone if you think best. Sent him because he knows exactly what was agreed on here last fall, & because [underline] the Indians asked him to go & to take with him that paper (meaning the written proposal)

    Send up when you please, say in June, July or August.  The best time would be when the payment was ready to be made, that would be the proper time, & would salve expenses to the U. S.  Let Majr. Andrews take up with him some troops from Fort Leavenworth, say 20 to 30 mounted men, to keep order, Keep whiskey dealers, mischief makers & loafers out of the Indian Country.   The U. S. Flag should be exhibited

& Maj'r. Andrews should appear command respect and make the proper these Indian negotiations, & this

    Let your Instructions be as

to cover entirely the proposition

    Leave the Nation fully at

money out of their $850, 000, to pay the ratification of the Treaty, say be put in the Treaty "payable to the as Trustee, for the purpose of