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by their influence with the chiefs, the matter has been so represented to the governor that he and the attorney general have directed that further proceedings against them be stoped for the present. and the probability is, that the chiefs will address the Legislature requesting a law to permit them to remain. nearly 100 families has already got in among this nation. Lydia's Alfred is I fear declining, he had a turn of the influenza, and does not get recovered from it as I wish to see him. She joins me in love to thyself, wife and daughter, and desires to be remembered to Robert Bowne and wife with much sympathy. Thy friend James Mott