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Digby. 9th.Aug.1831.
Dear Sir
Agreably to your permission, I have [ drawn?] on you at this date for £20 in [?favr.] of [Messrs?] Stewart & Budd on acct. of the Bear River Indians_ The supplies as p[e]r inclosed memorandum were furnished to them in the Spring and proved sufficient to bring them comfortably forward_ The whole sum was not [expended?], but £5.3.0 yet remains, and may serve to purchase a few articles of general convenience, such as grind-stones, or the like in the autumn-

Thus far, this Settlement has succeeded beyond my expectations. The members of it have ceased to be troublesome[ beggars?] They have all been healthy- Their improvements advance and their crops of growing potatoes and grain are sufficiently promising to ground a hope of their being independantly comfortable for the coming year_

The Revd. Father Segogne will go with me next week to visit the settlement, and at the same
time