I presume I am not mistaken in supposing that an injunction is the proper and most effectual mode of preventing a person from drowning a millseat of mine by raising his dam below it. with this view I have prepared the inclosed bill & documents, and trouble you with them to procure & send me an injunction. the def. being very actively employed at present in raising his dam, the case was too urging for me to wait till our next court (monday sennight) to compleat my order, on which there will be no dispute.

After an absence from home for more than three months and a half, I have returned with health in no respect impaired by my official labors. I have not as yet had time to look into my domestic & agrecultural concerns, and have determined to write to you before they interfere to prevent me. many of the cases which came before the two courts are new and highly interesting, a report of which I shall endeavour to make as intelligible as can be done in the compass of a letter.