These thoughts are with all becoming deference Humbly submitted to your Lordship. I am to assure your Lordship that I shall Lose no time in com'pleating & fulfilling his Majestys orders touching the carrying the Reform into Execution omitting no pains necessary for explaining & reconciling it to the Indians relying on his Majestys support for the more effectual discharge of the rest of the Dutys remaining under my Super Intendancy which I shall always

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endeavor to perform in the best manner but there are some points necessary thereto which it is my Duty to lay before y'^ Lordship.

The Northern & Southern Departments are put on the same allowance, altho The Northern has been always considered & admitted to be by much the Most Considerable & respectable whether as to the Number of Indians Their Dispositions, or the Circumstances attending their Affairs «&. Management And as ann^ presents must be given to the Western Ind^. Six Nations, Those of Canada & the Shawanese&Delawares,! submit it to your Lordship whether there is a possibility of doing this & providing for all other necessary Contingencies on jESOOO. p An. In the next place The absolute necessity there is for my having some subordinate Officers for the Carrying on the various operations & dutys of this Office, Those Deputys & Interpreters who are Essential thereto do not appear to have a provision made for them the sum I formerly proposed for a present alone was je4000 The Contingencies are besides as uncertain as they are innumerable, & as I am directed to remove all those Officers who were established for the Ind" Trade, which are the Commissary s, Smiths at the posts &c the future Want of those Corresponding Agents, will in many respects add to the Trouble as well as the Expense of Management, so that the Deptys who are long Established cannot be paid out of the am* jESOOO. with* omitting some other Essential part of the Service, nor can theirs be dispensed with.