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such a piece of land not exceeding 1000 acresand the terms upon which it may be purchasedand if it be procured obtain such informationof the divisions of the reservation, as may enablethe committee to locate a farm suitable toour views which we submit to the committee Signed Elisha Tyson James Gillingham Geo. Ellicott John Ellicott Philip E Thomas The situation of that portion of the DelawareTribe of Indians residing on reservations nearMohicken Johns lake, being again brought into viewthe subject, after deliberation was refered to oursub committee, who were directed to correspond withthe committee on Indian concerns of Philada, &;furnish them with all the information, which has reached us respecting the situationof these Indians, in order to interest our brethrenthere, to extend some assistence to them, as weapprehend they are more properly objects of theircare. Elisha Tyson Elias Ellicott Gerard T. HopkinsGeorge Ellicott &; Philip E Thomas were appointedto invest the additional money alloted to us by the Meeting forSufferings of Phila. as our proportion of the fundraised by our brethren of Great Britain for thebenevolent purpose of promoting the improvementof the Indian nations &; report of their care to the next