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Land which His Excellency will authorize to be Granted in [exchange?] -- & I think 20 acres of Ground will be sufficient for their Burial Ground & for their Huts. [Sheds?] or Wigwams -- I have requested of these Indians to [procure?] a List of those of the Tribe who wish to join them -- preparatory to an arrangement for their being provided with Lands on the West side the Great Shubenacccadie Lake -- and I hope very shortly to be able to furnish the necessary Report & information required by your letter of the third Instant --

I am Sir --
Your obed[ient]
humble Servant
Charles Morris
[T. Paul?]

I will thank you to inform these Indians that they are not to look to me for pecuniary aid having already administered to their wants & my [illegible] is filled with them almost every day in the year. [Ollis?]

Henry H. Cogswell Esqr
Secy
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D[ea]r Sir -- [?these] Indians want a Pass to go to [Passamaquoddy?] to be Signed by His Excell[enc]y the Gov[erno]r. which will give them [consequence] with the other tribes --

They also want a little Provisions to Support them until their Return -- but where this is to come from I know not -- I think however if it met His Excellencys approbation, twenty or thirty Dollars might be allowed them from the Province funds -- in this [juncture?]!