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. But that the service may not suffer thro the Want of what is necessary & reasonable I shall endeavor to settle the matter with the Com'', in Chief of the Army in the best manner I can, hoping it will merit approbation.

The other Affairs of the Department, the necessity for continuing the boundary Line Northerly from Owegy so as to Establish bounds between them & New York in such manner as the Ind^. shall be prevailed upon to agree to, I hope to receive your Lordships Com*l^ upon. -- As to the other objects of Concern & the Extraordinary Intelligences received I am doing all in my power thereon, and hope to lay them & other matters more fully before y'. Lordship in my next, -- but the subject of this letter having a ready drawn it out to an immoderate Length I must for the present draw to a Conclusion by Expressing my Humble