DEpARTMENT OF WAR.
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GENTLEMEN: have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter Of the 7th, which sub.
mted to the President. In reply am Instructed
to say, that the uncertain posture OF affairs IN re.
spect to the lands proposed to be surveyed, and
through which the dividing line referred to is to be
run, renders it unnecessary. if not improper, that
any defntive answer should be given to the ques-
tions contained In your letter at this time. The
earliest moment which relieves the subject Of these
difficulties will be seized to furnish the most salts
factory answer which the circumstances OF the case
will justify, and which will be guided by wish to
gratiiy both Georgia and Alabama, as far as Is con-
sisent with the other obligations OF the Executive.
have the honor to be, your obedent servant,


JAMES BARBOUR.
Hon. THOMAS w. Conn and


]. MACPHERSON BERRIRN,


Senate United States.