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Milledgeville 20th February 1817.

Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th of last month, accompanied by a commission by which I am appointed Agent for the Creek Nation of Indians. I beg you to be assured, and assure the President, that my utmost exertions shall be used to fulfill every reasonable expectation of the Government in discharging the duties of the Station to which I have been appointed. I have this day made an arrangement with the gentleman who succeeds me in the Executive Government of the State, by which I shall be enabled to enter upon the discharge of the duty attached to the Agency on Monday the third of next month. You will therefore please to consider this as notice of my acceptance to take effect on that day. I am with much respect your very ob. serv't D.B.Mitchell

Hon'ble George Graham Acting Sec'y of War