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Osage River Sub Agency
November 5 <sup>th</sup> 1846.

Dear Sir,
Agreeable to instructions from you I have
accompanied the Miami Indians in their 
emigration from Peru, Ia. to Westport, Mo.

From careful observation I can state that
the contractors have amply provided the Indians
with provisions for their subsistence on the route,
of good quality, and entirely satisfactory to the 
Indians themselves. No complaint of
scarcity of provision has been made by any Indian
within my knowledge, to which the contractors
have not immediately attended-- and I am 
acquainted with many instances in which the
Indians surfeited with abundance have wasted
much of their provisions.

I have the honor to be ,
your obt servant
Wallace B. White.

J. Sinclear Esq.
Sub agent of the Miamis

State of Missouri
County of Jackson ss. 

I, L. C. Bean a justice of the peace within and for the county
aforesaid do hereby certify that on 
the 11th day of November 1846 before
me personally appeared Wallace B. White
of lawful age being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that the contents of the foregoing communication are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Given under my hand this