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hundred dollars to any Citizen or Indian will
shall apprehend one or more of the Bandetti
who have been guilty of attacking, robing [sic]
& murdering persons on the road in the Indian
Country between Nashville & Natchez
within the last six months on forgiving
such intelligence as shall enable the officers
of the General, State or Territotial Governments
to detect and apprehend the Bandetti afore
said. - the money to be paid on the convic-
tion of any such person or persons so ap-
prehended, before any proper tribunal.
I herewith enclose several Copies of the
Proclamation which your Excellency
will please to have posted up in such
places as may be deemed expedient - other
Copies have been sent to Col Meigs & Sam^l.
Mitchell Esq^r Agents for the Cherokees and
Chickasaws - In addition to the foregoing
measures, It will be for a time necessary
for persons travelling the Road alluded to
with large sums of Money to form themselves
into