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occupied near the junction of the two rivers should be found unhealthy, a post to the east of it on the St. Marks, within our limits, would I presume be equally eligible for the defence of our frontiers and as the river is much smaller would be more salubrious. Indeed I should be inclined to think that a fort on the waters of that river would in every point of view be preferable to the fork of the Chatahouchee and Flint rivers. The act compromising the Yazoo claim makes the Yazoo stock receivable in payment for lands sold after the stock issues. As the stock has been issued now about twelve months all payments for lands sold during the last twelve months have been made in it to the injury of the State of Georgia. Thus the Yazoo claimants are to be satisfied years before the state, altho the convention in placing in the hands of Congress the means of compromising the claim expressly prohibited the interference with the payment to the State.