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to bound strikeout: th our right of Settlements on the east of this quarter, and the stipulations, which have been founded thereon, we consider of some moment, because it appears to be a questionable point whether that line was ever extended further South than the Homochitto River, which would leave a considerable proportion of the population of the Territory on the lands of the Indians, and therefore to obviate eventual difficulties we embraced the occasion to obtain from the Nation a formal relinquishment of their claims, under Specific limits. The equivalent we have given to legitimate the contract into which we have entered, has been unclear from the residum of the Invoice for 2696 dollars wirth of goods out of which we paid