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and proclaimed at the [text missing] and sent on to Washington for notification & congressmen by the President and they were accordingly approved. Kept a copy for some time, but whether I have one at this time time I am uncertain. I know I gave a copy to McIntosh the year before he was killed with the view to have them printed. A copy [contd?] no doubt be procured from the war office. The reason they were not printed immediately on their being approved by the President, was that I contemplated a more general revision & alteration of their Laws & Customs & thought it better to defer the Printing until the whole was complete. My removal from the Agency & the Murder of McIntosh put an end to that project as well as others which would