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Peru Ind<sup>a</sup> 5<sup>th</sup> Oct 1846

Sir

I have the honour to report that the Miami Emigration is progressing beyond my expectations when I last addressed you on that subject. There will be no necessity of using force, although the presence of the torops has no doubt been the cause of the Indians collecting peaceably and quietly.

We have this day loaded three Canal Boats with Indians and the baggage belonging to them, and will succeed in getting them all on board Boats, and <u>under way</u> in the course of the day tomorrow. I have not been able to leave this place since I came here, and in consequence have failed to make my quarterly and annual Reports, as I pass through Fort Wayne I will take my papers on board the Boat, and will forward my reports with lists of Indians &c from Cincinnatti.

I am requested by the Indians to ask that the amount to which they are entitled for <sup>the purpose of</sup> making improvements may be forwarded as early as possible in order to enable them to prepare for the approaching winter. They also wish their annuities paid them as soon as possible after their arrival-the payment to those remaining here, had better be deferred until the chief who goes with the Emigration returns.

At the request of Mr. Peebles (who was then contractor for the Emigration) I commenced my efforts to remove