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M. Day to-- New York, 4th mo. 1839 Dear Friend Samuel Carey, I duly received thy communication on behalf of a meeting of the Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting charged with the Indian Concerns, and laid the same before our Committee on the like subject. It appearing from the tenor of the above commu- nication, as well as others from Friends of different Yearly Meetings on this Continent, that the subject proposed by the Yearly Meeting of New York, has not been fully understood, I have been directed by our Committee to write to thee, for the information of the Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting on this subject, that it was not the concern of our Yearly Meeting to aid any other Yearly Meeting in any partial or limited plan for the benefit of individual tribes; but to ask the cooperation of the Yearly Meetings on this continent in some gene- ral and extended plan for the benefit and pro- tecyion of all the Indians who have moved to reside west of the Mississippi; chiefly, perhaps by providing suitable agents to reside among them; and endeavor, as far as practicable, to in- terpose between the Indians and those whites among them, who, as the government agents or otherwise, might attempt to frustrate or defeat those portions of the Treaties made with the Government of the United States, which have in view the civilization and welfare of the natives, and to represent their griev- ances to the Federal Government. Also to be