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A letter being lately received from the agent ofIndian affairs at Fort wayne containing a request of theIndians to be informed what Congress have done res-pecting some of the subjects of their communicationan answer being prepared was directed to be signed onbehalf of the Committee by Evan Thomas, GeorgeEllicott &; Joel Wright &; forwarded with the paperstherein aluded to, they are also at liberty to calla special meeting of such part of the Committeeas may be practicable should any opening to proceedfurther in the business appear to them to make itnecessary previous to our next Yearly Meeting Then Adjourned At a meeting of the Committee on Indian Affairs heldat Baltimore 13. 10 Mon 1802 Present 9 Members A report to the Yearly Meeting was agreed on asfollows To the yearly Meeting now sitting The Committee on Indian affairs agree to reportthat divers of their number in company with otherfriends have had since last year two conferrences with thelittle Turtle and some other principal Indian Chiefsresiding NW. of the river Ohio they being chiefs of thoseIndians whom the Yearly Meeting had in contemplationto adjust. The first conference was on the subject of the Intro-