Colo. Martin will be the Bearer of this who will present to you three Indians of the Cherokee Tribe, who are Men of some Consequence among those people—& an Interpreter—Considering their Circumstances, & the Standg which we would choose to keep with those Tribes, I think it may be Policy to make them a present which may be agreeable to them—You will therefore please to deliver to each of the four some Articles of Cloathing such as you shall think proper [&] which may be acceptable to them & charge the same to this state; with this provision—that if any Objections are made on the Part of the State, that I will engage the Expence shall be born by the United States. I am Sir Your &c.