Enclosure.

In purchases of this nature it is of the utmost importance that careful inquiry should be made among the native owners as to the prospects of completing the transaction without incurring the chance of any future trouble or disagreement.

You will, therefore, have to pay-special attention to this, as the Government do not desire to acquire any land from the natives, however valuable it may be, if the acquisition is attended with any risk of disturbance, or revival of feuds among themselves.

You will proceeds to examine this block and report fully upon its capabilities, whether for grass or cornland, for timber, water, and any other points whichnt is desirable to be fully aware of.

You will also have the goodness to furnish the Under Secretary, Native Office, with a rough sketch, of it, as accurate as the circumstances will allow you to make, giving its proper, boundaries; and in enumerating the latter, you will be very careful to ascertain that no mistake can in future occur between the proposed sellers and the Government, but that a clear definition is given of the area, with its limits.

You will also give me a clear idea as to what reserves it will be necessary to make for the natives in the case of these, discriminating most carefully their acreage. I have to request that you will lose no time in acquiring the information and forwarding a report of it to the Government.

Should anything in the transactions occur affecting the natives, I have to request that you will forward to me a report.