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without even milk for their children. I did suffer that I could not better consult the humane feelings of our government, or maintain the liberality which has ever firmly characterized her conduct towards the friendly Creeks, than by ordering all the cows, calves & young cattle captured from the (unclear) and not (unclear) for the subsistence of my army to be delivered to General McIntosh for an equal distribution among the Chiefs (unclear) of his nation. The [ restocking?] of the Creek Nation was my wish, and the effectry of that object alone led me to (unclear) the (unclear) making a different distribution of the cattle taken, than what the law (unclear) Major Mitchel was well acquainted with my motives in the affair; and the (anxiety?) (unclear) by my orders to check a (unclear) destruction of the cattle to preserve the milk cows & calves- If a sale has been made it is illegal & I shall order the cattle collected as the property of the U. States, to be distributed agreeably to my order, a (unclear) on account of government as the President may direct & when I have written on the subject. You will therefore (unclear) to have inquiry made into this subject, the cattle collected subject to the direction of the President of the United States- this may be easily affected and Mr. (unclear) Smith informs me that there are five hundred (unclear) which you (unclear) Major Mitchel told him