I believe that the section with the few alterations which I have introduced will answer for the present. Instructions to the Register, the President’s proclamation therein contemplated and another law next session if necessary will supply the details omitted. I have preferred writing again the Section rather than to interline your’s. If we can get a surveyor general in lieu of Briggs to be on the spot in April, we may have enough of the land surveyed before the coming spring; which, will be time enough to satisfy the volunteers who may move.

Your’s respectfully