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p.2] immediately write, and advise me what affidavits, and other documents are yet required in order to get thing[s] in proper shape, so as to get the approval of the President, but I am in hopes that the Department now has all the documents that are necessary; as my Friend writes me that he is confident that they will be approved by the President, as everything depends with the Examiner, which examination is favorable to our deeds etc; as the matter now stands it looks most favorable to us; and if anything should occur to prevent the approval, it will only cause a little further delay; for I am confident you can redily [readily] procure any, and all further documents which may be required in this affair. Now as it is not necessary at present to forward the last affidavits you sent me, to Washington, I thought it best to return them to you, so that you can get the signatures of Lombard Dusham and James B. Colfin attached to them before I sent them on to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; as it will not do to go off half cocked; there must