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Washington 3d Oct. 1817 Dear General Your very interesting letter of the blank space inst was duly recd. I have submitted it to the President in the hopes of drawing from him some expression of his idea of the same which might be prudently given for the strip of land lying on the Southern margin of the Okmulgee. In this I have wholly failed He says that you are best acquainted with the value of the land to the State of Georgia, and indeed to the United States, as connecting the settlements of the State with the Alabama Territory. It may be proper for me to state that the Price given to the Indians in