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South Bend May 18, 1847
Col. W Medill
Com<sup>r</sup> Indian affairs

Dear Sir

A copy of an extract of a letter of instruction to Maj Jos Sinclear late Indian agent dated Feb 8."47 has been placed in my hands. In that letter you speak of 30 Miamies who are yet to be emigrated under the contract with Mr Dowling, who were permitted to remain to gather their fall crops with a promise of being removed to their home in the west this season. 

In relation to the permission spoken of to these 30 Miamies to remain &c. I would say that so far as my knowledge goes there was no such promise ever made by them having charge of the emigration. I was the active agent in gathering them and removing them and I gave them due & full notice last spring not to put in any crops, these could not remain to secure them in the fall. If any such promise was ever made, or any such understanding existed, it was from some [illeg] unauthorized person. I would also say further that some of the thirty to which you allude did emigrate last fall, as for instance Ko-ass-see, but after the payment was made in which they participated. They returned to Indiana. There same persons would