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SPAIN IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 1785-1TM
gress but which require greater reflection will be decided henceforth in the said Indian nations by His Majesty?s commissioners with the approval of the governor of this province, and when so done, the said decisions and agreements will have the same force as if included in this treaty.
16.	All the Indian nations referred to in this Treaty will admit into their nations the commissioner sent by His Catholic Majesty thereto and from him they will receive all the messages sent to them by the governors of these provinces, and to the said commissioner they will give those which they have to send to the aforesaid governors. They will respect the said commissioner, receive from him all the counsels and instructions which he may give them, and inform him of everything they may learn concerning the general interests of their nations and whatever may affect the tranquillity and security of these provinces and likewise they shall consider him as the exclusive judge of the whites residing in the said nations.
17.	The whites settled with their families or in trade in the said nations shall be considered as belonging to them, but those who are not engaged in any kind of occupation shall be expelled therefrom.
18.	The Choctaw nation now decides and states that it desires to receive the yearly presents dispensed to it by His Catholic Majesty at Old Tombecbe, which it has recently ceded to His Catholic Majesty, and it likewise desires that these be distributed to them at the same time as to the other nations.
19.	Finally the Spanish nation and all the Indian nations mentioned in this Treaty approve and ratify everything contained herein, and mutually promise and swear to be mutual guarantors thereof, and the said Indian nations to consider themselves as one under the protection of His Catholic Majesty, the King of Spain and the Emperor of the Indies, and His Catholic Majesty assures them of his protection in all cases in which they need it. In witness whereof all the representatives of the nations making this Treaty, as mentioned in its heading, sign same, the said Indians making their customary marks. The witnesses are Captain Don Elias Beauregard, commandant of this post, Lieutenant Colonel Don Juan Delavillebeuvre, commissioner for His Majesty to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, the interpreters of the same, Don Benjamin Fooy and Don Simon Fabre, Don Juan Turnbull, Don Juan Girault, Don Antonio Mar-million and Don Juan Barn6 y Ferrusola. Sealed with the Royal Seal, and countersigned by the Secretary of His Majesty of the government of Natchez, named by the said governor, Don Manuel Oayoso de Lemos, to attend to this Treaty in this capacity. The said Treaty
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Nortmber 11,1793 ?"	Pensocola,	November	11,1793.
My Esteemed Govrrnob; On the 4th of the current month I received the letter from Milford of which I enclose a copy. I do not know what to think of whit he says about Joseph Cornell. On the other hand, it appears that he is favored by Olivier, as Tour Lordship will see by the letter from the latter touching upon the salary of Cornell as interpreter, xhich I communicate officially. And in order that Your Lordship may be better informed in regard to this matter I shall copy whnt Milford writes to Panton relative to what Cornell said to the chiefs in the assembly of October 11:
?That it was necessary that two or three chiefs should go to Pensacola to tell you that when you came to Pensacola you promised to give them a treaty, the same as they had in the time of the English; but that you have been able to win over McGillivray to such an