I have recd your packet enclosing a letter to Majr Watson, & a communication to Mr D. Minor. I will take care to send the letter to Majr Watson by a special messenger, as I feel greatly interested in the success of the central college, & if his health will permit I know he will attend: but I hear that he has been a good deal confined of late by the Rheumatism—

I shall as you request peruse your bill in chancery, & will deliver it to Mr Minor early tomorrow. I highly commend the resolution you express to have the footing upon which yourself & the Directors stand as it respects your respective rights, fixd upon a certain basis, & perhaps the mode you propose is finally the best; tho: with the exception of one of the board, I believe the matter could be satisfactorily adjusted without the odium of a law suit, which however freindly it may be called, is apt to leave an asperity behind it, & a great degree of prejudice among those who feel themselves interested; I mean those who use the navigation.