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Copy of a Memorandum on the Record Book of the War Department. John Howard Payne, Esquire, being employed upon business connected with the proposed Treaty with the Cherokees, will be paid at the rate of Sixteen Hundred Dollars per annum. out of the appropriation for the Contingencies of the Indian Department from and after the 12th instant inclusive. Department of War J.C Spencer. October 30. 1841. Hon: T. Hartley Crawford Department of War, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Office of Indian Affairs, War Department. March 17. 1842 Sir, I have the honor to transmit, for the Secretary of War, such of the papers in relation to what I understood to be the duties committed to me, as are complete. I beg to add, that, originally intending to give a different form to my report, I requested information from your office which I thought my oral instructions when I entered this Department, and the memorandum afterwards signed by the Honorable