1. Enclosure no. 1 is a copy of Edward D. Turner to Claiborne, 30 July 1804 (printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Orleans, 9:271–73), in which Turner described the anxiety of the people of his district, “who appear to be extremely and justly alarmed” at a decree promulgated by Spanish officials providing protection to foreign slaves seeking refuge in Spanish territory, and enclosed a petition against it. Enclosure no. 2 is a translation of the petition from the inhabitants of the district of Nachitoches to Turner, dated 29 July 1804 (printed ibid., 9:273–74), requesting that he solicit Claiborne’s help to combat the threat to person and property implicit in the decree, which had already produced “the most dangerous sensation” among the slave population, and “enforce upon the slaves a strict & severe police.” Enclosure no. 3 is a copy of Claiborne to Turner, 10 Aug. 1804 (printed in Rowland, Claiborne Letter Books, 2:303–4), ordering him “to employ the Militia of the Country as well as the small body of regular Troops … to keep up a strict police in the country” and to report the escape of any slaves in the district in order to make a “final adjustment of the affair with the Spanish Government.” Claiborne wrote that he believed the decree did not originate with the king and that Casa Calvo, whom he had informed of this affair, had pronounced the conduct of the local Spanish commandant to be “extremely reprehensible, and altogether unauthorized.”