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[illegible] Pierce, Sub Agency November 5 ^nd 1846. [illegible], Agreeable to instruction from you I have accompanied the Miami Indians in their emigration from Peru, Ia. to [illegible] 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 [illegible] in which the Indians [illegible] with abundance have wasted much of their provisions. I have the honor to be , your [illegible] servant Wallace B. White. [illegible][illegible] Sub agent of the Miamis State of Missouri County of Jackson ss. L. H. Bean a justice of the peace within and for the earning aforesaid so hereby certify that on the 11th day of November 1846 before me personally appeared Wallace B. White of [illegible] age being by me [illegible][illegible] [illegible] and faith that the [illegible] of the foregoing [illegible] are there to the list of his knowledge [illegible] [illegible][illegible]my land this