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Tampa Bay Florida
May 31 1852

Gen Luther Blake
Sp. Agent &cc Ft Myers,

Sir, I have to inform you that I have received authority to turn over to you the sum of $20.000 in such amounts as you may require out of the fund in my hand applicable to the removal of the Seminoles &c

Please inform me of the amounts, and times when, you will require these funds as my [[public?]] safe is at Ft Myers.

Respectfully
Yr Obedt Sevt
John C Casey
Capt U.S.A.

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Gen Luther Blake
Spec^l^ Agt &cc

My health being very delicate I send, by present conveyance, authority to Dr. Sloan and Lieut. Silney to open my sub-treasury at Ft Myers and deliver to you such funds as you may want.  

As there is one [[underline]] broken [[/underline]] bag contg. $4.650.00 I have sent ^[[?]]^ receipts for $9.650= that being but little over the amount you call for.

Should you, however, require more funds at once, I have requested Dr Sloan to comply with your requisition as far as I could were I able to attend.

Very respectfully
Your Obedt Sevt
John C Casey
Capt U.S.A.

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Tampa Florida July 28. 1852

General Thos. Childs
Com of Hd Qs Tampa, Fla

General, I deem it proper to invite your attention to the position of an indian named [[underline]] Chai [[/underline], & of his wife (Polly), formerly living among the Seminoles, but for the last 11 or 12 yrs. living with the whites.  He was taken prisoner during the war (in 1840 I believe) by a part of the comd. under Col Harney on the atlantic side, and was then [[underline]] forced [[/underline]] to guide our troops thro' the everglades and to the enemy.

After being thus compromised with the Seminoles, he abandoned all hope of rejoining them, and continued thereafter to be a faithful and valuable guide with Col Harney, Lieut McLaughlin & others to the close of the war.

He has been promised the protection of the government and permission to remain in Florida by the U States military authority, as his services to the U S. have caused him to be outlawed by the Indians, and he would be put to death by the [[?]] Seminoles were he to join them in Arkansas.

I have reason to say that he has never dared to visit freely among the Indians since the capture in 1840-1 of himself & brother & his conduct as guide to Harney and others, and that he has even been regarded as a traitor by the Seminoles.

He has been, and is, to them, an outlaw whom any man, or boy may shoot with impunity, and he owes his life to the idea that he is [[strikethrough]]? [[/strikethrough]] under our protection, and that we should hold the indians accountable for his death.

The supposition that whenever he goes out hunting he may, or does, communicate with the Seminoles is improbable, and, were it true, he could do no harm by any communication that he could make. [[?]] respectable citizen where he lives - [[underline]] Manatee & Sarasota [[/underline]] - is friendly to him, and he is a useful as well as an inoffensive man

The circumstances attending the capture of this man, and his subsequent conduct, entitle him to the protection of the government, so often pledged