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Indians and all payment has stopped for two years past. In looking over the list of names I fear we have some pretty poor debts – at least I should think twice before lending to a Provost, but I do not know the people and hardly know what I ought to do. I am sure we can do them no greater harm than to ^[[let]] [[strikethrough]]make[[/strikethrough]] them borrow and not pay and where