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and kind feelings now existing and has been so signally mani- fested by the United States. I have the honor to be with respect your obdt servt JOSEPH WAPLES Acting Secretary of State [Endorsed] Copy to Jesse Benton Jr Dist Atty 9th Sept 1842 Jos Waples Acting Secy. of State to / Sept. 9th 1842 Jesse Benton Junr. Esq. Communicating certain instructions
No. 113 LETTER FROM JESSE BENTON, JR. TO ANSON JONES Boston Bowie County Texas Nov. 15, 1842
To/
Hon Anson Jones Secretary of State Sir./
I have the honor to acknowledge your communication under date of June 5th 1842, accompanied by a communication of the Hon. Joseph Eve, charge d'affaires oi the Government of the United States to the Republic of Texas, enclosing a copy of a Letter addressed to the Hon John C. Spen- cer, Secretary of War of the United States of America: by P. P. Pitchlynn, a delegate from the Choctaw nation of Indians, to the government of the United States at Washington, under date of the 20th of March 1842; and in obedience to your request, I have the honour of transmitting the following report, as the result of my investigations of the subject referred to in your letter. As soon as my official duties would permit, I proceeded to institute inquiring, having particular reference to the complaints contained in Mr. Pitchlynns letter abovementioned. In regard to the first complaint, which refers to a murder alledged to have been committed by a Texian, upon the person of a Choctaw Indian, I would respectfully beg to draw
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