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Let us endeavour to find out the means by which the path between us shall be kept open and secure from all harm. - You must restrain your bad young men from stealing of horses, and murdering our fronteir people - unless you have sufficient force for this purpose peace will never be established. The frontier people will not suffer their property to be stolen much less will they suffer their friends to be murdered without seeking satisfaction. We shall endevour to help in order the white young men and prevent their Template:Unclear any injury. The secretary of War has spoken to you my mind about the lauds upon the two treaties of Template:Unclear in 1785 and of Template:Unclear in 1791. More than ten thousand people are seated on these lands and they cannot be removed. The treaties which has been made cannot be altered. The boundaries which have been mentioned must be marked and established so that no disputes shall happen or any white people cross over it. - But in order to convince you that the United States are Template:Unclear that you and your families should be comfortably clothed, you annual allowance of one thousand five hundred dollars will be increased to the amount five thousand dollars yearly. The Secretary of War will consult you for the purpose of furnishing you with articles which shall be most acceptable to your nation, and you shall take the amount of one years allowance home with you. Besides this quantity which will be for the whole nation I have directed that you who are present and your families should be clothed and well treated in all respects. This liberal allowance independent of all former considerations will be of much greater value to the whole nation that could possibly be obtained by hunters from off the small spots