property at the stipulated price or not, as you may afterwards be instructed by us-and should it be requisite by the laws of that state to pay some small sum to bind the bargain, you will of course do so. After you shall have fully perfected this part of your business you will then and not until then call on Messrs Graham, Carson and Burton and deliver to them the letters from us which we hand you, and may also as occasion requires deliver to Messrs Erwin, McEntire & Polk the letters from Mr Duponceau. From the best information we can gather we are led to believe that the duty of foreclosing the mortgage had better be committed to Mr. Burton of Lincolnton not only form his high professional standing, but because he lives in a central position between the three counties where the lands lay, but you must give each of the three Gentlemen a retaining fee of Twenty dollars with a promise o such further compensation as may be reasonable. You will therefore after you have secured the purchase of the trusts as before mentioned, proceed to Lincolnton and deliver to Mr Purton the papers which you carry with you necessary to foreclose the mortgage and desire hi to proceed wit all possible expedition in effecting it and if it will enable him to progress more rapidly you will employ Mr Graham in assisting him, but in either case a good deal of time will be saved by your booking closely after the business yourself.
It is our wish that you should inform those settlers who bought under Sacket that we intend acting kindly & fairly towards them, both in regard to the price of the lands and terms of payment, but in places where they have located themselves on narrow trips along the margin of streams, we shall expect to run new lines so as to give them reasonable fronts on the water and carry their rear lines back to a proper distance-We understand that numbers have taken advantage of the embarrassed state in which the lands have so long laid, by settling on them in some cases without any