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Now we have made diligent enquiries about the occupancy and improvement of said lands (situated on Fox River at or near a place called "L̲i̲t̲t̲l̲e̲ ̲K̲a̲k̲a̲l̲i̲n̲)̲ and can find no one to say that P̲i̲e̲r̲r̲e̲ ̲C̲a̲r̲b̲o̲n̲e̲a̲u̲,̲ or any other person but Indians ever occupied or improved said place, till long since 1812. And we have enquired of said Francis St. Roque who is an unlettered and plain Canadian and he most solemnly avows, that he did not know that he had given any testimony touching the improvement of any lands at L̲i̲t̲t̲l̲e̲ ̲K̲a̲k̲a̲l̲i̲n̲ 0r C̲a̲c̲a̲l̲i̲n̲, but, that he supposed his testimony related entirely to a place, six miles lower on Fox River, occupied by said Carboneau._ And we ^have^ the Testimony ^of^ our brethren the Menominies, who have planted & raised corn on the pace "time out of mind" that it has never been occupied by any other than themselves till some years since the late war, since which it was cultivated a year or two by one Reaum, by a permission of the Menominies and of the Indian Agent Col. Bowyer, but has now come into their hands again._ We hope your Honorable Body will not confirm this to any one but upon the best grounds as it will be a great damage to us, by introducing a white family among us us, with its ever attending, and to us destructive vice, the vending of s̲p̲i̲r̲i̲t̲u̲o̲u̲s̲ ̲l̲i̲q̲u̲o̲r̲s!

We know not what other testimony, Mr. Johnson