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Washington 27th Jany 1817 Dear Sir. Upon the rec't of your letter on the subject of the military posts on the frontiers of Georgia, I had an interview with the President and the acting Secty of War. I communicated the contents of your letter to them. Instructions will be immediately given to plan a force upon the Southern limits of the lands lately acquired sufficient to keep the hostile Creeks, Seminoles and Negroes in check. When the information was rec'd of the imputed invasion of New Orleans, i believed the thing wholly improbable, but coming from a respectable officer commanding at that post, it was deemed proper to order a concentration of the principal part of the regular force for the purpose of repelling aggression. I had however no idea that the Georgia frontier would have been left entirely defenceless. If the situation which has been