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8 You will give your special attention to this matter, and will adopt such measures as you may deem necessary to prevent any complaint on this score. 21. You will, also, in the absence of any laws or regulations in regard to trade between our citizens and the tribal and uncivilized Indians of the ceded territory, discountenance all monopolies, old or new, and under whatever pretext, and at the same time prevent the abuses which too frequently result from the unrestricted intercourse of avaricious traders and ignorant, but vindictive, natives. 22. You will endeavor to impress upon the tribal and uncivilized inhabitants of the ceded territory which constitutes your Military District, and especially upon their chiefs, that our government will regard them as subject to its laws, and entitled to its protection; that, while they are protected by our government, they will be required to respect the rights of all citizens of the Republic; and that, if any member of a tribe should maltreat a citizen of the United States, the whole tribe, and especially its chief, will be held responsible for the offense, or crime, committed by one of its members, unless they expel each criminal, or deliver him to us for punishment. 23. The Russians have occupied the territory which constitutes your command for a long period of years; their number has always been small, and their military forces never equal to those which will be placed under your orders; nevertheless, their officers, agents and merchants have travelled unmolested through most parts of that vast country. Indian hostilities there have been limited to one or two temporary outbreaks near Sitka. The British Government has occupied, directly, and by means of its commercial companies, their agents and servants, an Indian country in this continent, greater in extent than the whole United States, and containing a larger number of tribal and uncivilized Indians than we have. And yet we have never heard of hostilities and wars between that government and its native subjects in America, although trade has been carried on with