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McMinn_Letter_010_48207
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(A Copy)
Murfreesboro: 5th April 1819.
Gentlemen,
I was duly honored with the receipt of your letter, touching your appointment from the President of the United States authorizing you with Col: Cannon to hold a treaty with the Chickasaw Na= tion of Indians, for the purpose of obtaining a [assign?] of their claim to a salt spring referred to in the [4th?] article of the late treaty held by Jackson & Shelby with said tribe of Indians
I acknowledge that the Legislature of the United States have acted very generously in trans= =ferring their right in this Spring, to the State of Tennessee, and I also admit the Justice of charging this State with the necessary expenditures: But I have to regret being compelled to assure you that there are no funds at my disposal by which to enable you to effect this very desirable object.
It is therefore obvious that no pubic re= =sources can be placed at your command until the
