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Many of the Indians appear to be in a quandary what to do, whether to remain or to leave. I have strong reason to believe that your presence and council would tend greatly in facilitating their speedy removal.

The Indians should they remain I am credibly informed will be deprived of all or very nearly all the water above them, tho farmers above them have determined to go more largely into the farming opperations which they say will exaust all the water.

I have been informd that the Road Commissioners have determined to run the road straight if so in this case it will pass through their fields, and a number of their furas [furrows] and patches, and council from to the Indians directing them when making their furas and patches to leave the tract for the road unincumbered, will be of great importance if not indispensible.

The Indians are more saucy and insolent and indolent I believe than I have ever known them. They seem to be holly [wholly] given up to drunkeness and debauchery their present means subsistence are nearly exausted from riotous living and soon tho most of them I suppose will return to their old trade, begging, strolling about, and stealing. In answer to the abatement of these evils, you might say, execute, enforce the law, but the law in the Indians case and all scoundrels connected with them, Is a dead letter and it is powerless. The circomstances which surround has disarmed the law, and we had as well be said to be without law. Those interested & affiliated with

with the Indians in carrying out their helish [hellish] designs and purposes living with and off them by selling and supplying them with liquor second-handed by the bottle and acting some of them as Pimps to the Squaws and thus live on their ill gained earnings & plunder of the Indians.

I say this class of monsters in human form are so numerous in this county that it is impossible to execute the law, and while this state of things exist it will remain a dead letter on our statute Book. The only remedy for the removal of the great and crying evil which meet us at every turn, which grow out of the affiliations the alliance and association of the Indians and the refuse and the crum of the babling Earth that have congregated here for rapin and plunder. We say of the Indians whom these scoundrels use as tools to carry out their unhalowed purposes were removed we might then hope for a reform in society. The people here are unanimously in favor of having the Indians removed if possible from the entire county. They demand it. The good of society demand it. The good and the virtuous demand it, and all approve of it.

I remain your obt Servt signed A. S. St Clair