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SPAIN IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALUCY
oiding of this, the very nature of the Transaction points out '
necessity of it.	"
Your Excell'. well knows that all Publick Boards are more p-ticular than others (and for the general good of the Publick the ought to be so) and the holders of those Bills could not reasonable expect a premium of 10 pr. Cent damages for protest, -without an Voucher. Consequently the protest with the original Bills must' produced at the State of Virginia (where the Payment is to be made as they are the only Vouchers that can be received; to Indemnify I men in Office for the Payment of those Bills, after which the holde of the Bills, can order Mr. Rendon or their attorney to remit tlr:
Funds where they please.
With respect to the time of Payment, and my Exertions in t" Business I must only refere your ExcelK to my last Letter on t? subject and your knowledge on Business of this nature.
I have the honor to be with all due respect Sir
Your Most Ob' and___________?
Very Huin-^Ser^.
His Excellency Gov'. Mino.
Favre to Tuoean
November $6, 1783 11
Copy of A Letter Written dv the Interi-h*
Tuoean of the Choctaw Nation at Mobile.
I have the honor of writing to you to inform youDiatthe sava do not want to go to Galveston. They had rather do without the gi This is why I have decided to go immediately with four chiefs of!, great medal to the Bay of St. Louis to see Mr. Maxent. I hope to, by sea to Mobile upon?my return from New Orleans. I assure J that I am quite tired of the Choctaws.
Franchimastabo and TaGoFa did not want to come to see me, r have forbidden their warriors to listen to the message. They are go to Savannah with Bendime. Many of the petite partie have j
there too.
You will be so kind as to send mo Mingomastabe?s medal and? son?s gorget.
At the Choctaws, in the grande partie, November 25,1783
I	certify that tho foregoing is copied from the original
Mobile, December 4,1783
GniMAnFOT (Rubric)
? UIj, (French).
POST WAU DECADE. 1782-1701
93
Robinson to Commandant of Natchez
December 7,178312
State of North Carolina,
Davidson?s Countt Nashborouoii Dec'. 7 1783
Sir: I have received a Proclamation from his Excellency Alexander Martin Governer and Commander in Chief of this State requiring to havo apprehended certain Persons (to the number of hirtecn as specified in said Proclamation, a copy of which I will send by a French Boat which is a Trading here) who are accused on joining Capt". James Colbert of the Chicasaw Nation at the Chicasaw luffs and from thence proceeding down the Itivcr in a Warlike 'anner which Persons so apprehended to send to you for Tryal; hich Oiders shall be Obey?d as soon as possibly they c!\n; but at present it is impossible as they have chiefly dispersed themselves, I nnot tell where some into Different States, and what few remain iere havo got Families, but are absconded into the Woods, so that it nay be a considerable time before I can have any of them apprehended but the number will be so inconsiderable, and them I make
o	Doubt tho most Innocent that I could rather liopo you would word in the General Ratification of Peace and give a General Par-on for all past Offenses as the lives of a few individuals whose amilies thereby will bo totally ruined can make but small Satis-aclion but Pardoning the whole must be esteemed Generous and oble.
But if you should not think it just and cannot accord thereto I will everything in my Power to bring them to Justice, and wish to ve as speedy an Answer as possible for I know my Countrymen
11	give every Assistance in their power as we all wish to Cultivate ' greatest Friendship with the Subjects of his most Catholic Maj-and with all well wishers to this and the United States, am, Sir, with tho greatest Ilespect, Your most Obedient, Most lible Serv'. to Command
James Robinson L. Col?. (Rubric)
. S. The Bearer Mr. James Iloggalt appears to me to be a Gentle-n of Character and Varasity therefore shall refer you to him for ther Particulars. I am
J. R.
*A01, PC, It*. 2370 (BnjlHh).
824010?49?rol. 3, pt. 11?9