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396 The Secretary unclear what you have delivered in writing shall be carefully attended to. It shall be answered in time. The boundary of Holston, 1792 in the same as that and Hopewell in 1785, as it relates to Cumberland. It will be difficult to alter that boundary. The president has no right to remove people from lands which have been confirmed by two treaties. It will be better to make a friendly settlement of this business once for all and forever., than to let the claim remian. The president desires nothing more than to establish firmly, peace between his white and red children. The maps were then shown to them and the unclear as described pointed out. The settlement was deferred till tomorrow. unclear acknowledged being at the treaty of Holston, but that the unclear was not agreable to the ideas at that time. Nontuaka. As I before observed, I now again mention [continue in oversize folder 1]