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Creek Agoney 30th December 1878 Dear Sir, I have unclear returned from a long tour to the Alabama Territory. My object was to take the testimony in the Cases of the renovation? of lanos? to the friendly Chiefs and Warriors under the act of Congress; and I believe I have completed all except two, whose claims call for locations near the Spanish line, when the survey of the land has not been finished. As I intimated to you in a former letter, the claim of John Weatherford taken the fraction upon which the Town of Claiborne unclear, and the present situation & future prospects of that place, and its peculiar fitness for a mercantile town prep very forceibly for a compromise of the claim. I suggested that the idea of a compromise to unclear