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Knoxville December 9th 1799

Gentlemen

By the inclosed law you will be informed, that
the Legislature which passed it have made it my duty, to lay
it through you before the President of the United States
and to request him to appoint persons of the description therein
contained to mark out the road stipulated for by the
fifth article of the treaty of Holston and in conformity
thereto I instruct you to lay it before him, and to
request him to make an appointment of such persons
as are therein described, and for the purposes therein
contemplated.-

This is all that is positively injoined on me as a duty
[word cut off] I think it necessary to apprise you that it is probable