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date to our estimate under consideration. The
estimate We believe reasonable, having the com.
Portable removal of our people solely in view. and
endeavoring to be governed, as far as that OBJECT
will allow, by the rate of expenditure fixed BY The
officers of the Government. -
After the necessary bedding, cookina utensils,
and other indispensable articles of twenty per.
sons (say four or five families) are placed in a
wagon, with substance for at least two days the
weight already will be enough to exclude, in our
opinion, more than very few persons being haul
ed. The great distance to be travelled, liability
to sickness on the way of grown persons, and the
desire OF performing the trip in as short time as
possible, induce still to think our estimate of
that item not extravagant.


Ia relation to the ration at sixteen cents, the
estimate is fixed at a rate which the Government
agents had already made some arrangements to
have them supplied.
The addition, however, of sugar and coffee has
been made under this estimate, which, we trust,
will DO reasonable enough.


In our estimate we omitted an item which we
deem indispensable but propose now the addition
of soap, the quantity and cost of delivery at the
rate of three pounds to every one hundred rations
at fifteen cents per pound.


Whatever may be necessary, in the emigration
OF our people, to their comfort on the way, and as
conducive to their health, we desire to he afford
ed them; at the same time, it is our anxious
wish, in the management of this business, to be
free at all times from the imputation of extrava.
gance.


With high respect, We have the honor to be


your obedient serv'ts,


JOHN ROSS,


r. TAYLOR,


ELIJAH HICKS,


EDWARD GUNTER,


JAMES BROWN,


WHITE PATH,


SITUWAKEE.
Major General WINFIELD Scorr, s


U. S. Army, Commanding, &c.