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to all that I now relate. This is the great <u>friend</u> of the Miamis now so deeply distressed for fear they may be wronged.

It was, smarting under the merited reproaches which he knew he deserved from those people, and malicious towards the new claimants, as he has been ever since he lost sight of the $2000 <u>per centum, that has made</u> this man misrepresent, & slander these transactions as he has to you.

It is not true that 50 Miamis returned from the West this spring with Lafontaine, who should have remained out there. There were but about Forty in all that went back. Most of them being in Indiana. the others went to dispose of their property there, hunt up their friends &c & return West again.

It is not true that any of those Indians either west or in Indiana are in a destitute or suffering condition. Those who belong West draw rations, and they rec<sup>d</sup> $30 per head at the payt and for every Western Miami yet in Indiana the chiefs laid aside & carried back for them $40 per head, the sum taken back for this purpose was over $1800--as I was informed & saw stated on the list they gave to Col. Vaughan when they requested him to pay out their [illeg].

The late Miami Payment West--The sub Agent Col. Vaughan has I presume reported to you how that was made, but as