1. The enclosure has not been identified, but McHenry issued instructions dated 8 Sept. to Benjamin Hawkins as “principal temporary Agent for Indian Affairs, South of the Ohio.” McHenry first repeated the five subjects for discussion with the Creek Indians outlined in his letter to GW dated 29 Aug. and directed that Hawkins “give all possible satisfaction” on those items. Additional instructions echoed those already given Cherokee agent Silas Dinsmoor (see McHenry to GW, 24 Aug., and n.1). The long middle portion of the instructions covered administrative and financial records that needed to be sent to the War Department. With legislation providing only $15,000 per year to furnish “the Indian Nations with domestic animals, implements of Husbandry, and with Agents to reside among them,” McHenry explained in the closing paragraph that it was “necessary to confine the chief experiments to the Creeks and Cherokees for the present and to require regular estimates as a guide for its distribution. It is not however to be understood from your principal care being directed to the Creeks, that you are not to extend such help to the Choctaws and Chickasaws of the means put in your power, as in your judgment may be of service either to the preservation of their friendship or their advancement in Civilization. You will therefore as a matter of course and appertaining to the nature of your appointment give these nations as much of your attention as on a general view of things may seem proper or necessary” (MHi: Adams Papers).