had been employ'd on several Messages to this Government, and desir'd they might be consider'd on that Account.

At a COUNCIL held the 12th of July, P.M. 1742.

The Board taking into Consideration the Regulation of the necessary Expences of the Indians travelling down hither, and returning; and upon an Estimate made by Conrad Weiser, amounting to about one hundred Pounds, it appearing that the said Sum of 1007. will be necessary to be advanced to Conrad Weiser to defray those Expences, Mr. Logan, on the Proprietaries Behalf, proposes to advance 401. and the Treasurer declaring he had no publick Money in his Hands, and that if he had, he would not advance Money

without the Assembly's Order; it is recommended to Mr. Preston and Mr. Lawrence, to confer with Mr. Kinsey, and know whether he, as Speaker of the Assembly, and Trustee of the Loan-Office, will advance the other 607.

And the Indians having requested that they might have a small Quantity of Rum, to be added to their Provisions, to comfort them on the Road: The Board is of Opinion, that there be added to the said Estimate for twenty Gallons of Rum for the aforesaid Use. And in Return for their Present of Skins, at requesting that the Indian Traders be enjoin'd to sell their Goods cheaper, the Board directs that two Strouds be presented. And that five Pounds be given to Caxhayn on the Account of the Province, for his Services; and to Shickcalamy the like Sum.

A just Copy, compared by

PATRICK BAIRD, Secr.

A Treaty with the INDIANS

of the SIX NATIONS.

In the Court-House in the Town of Lancaster, on Friday the Twenty-second of June, 1744.

PRESENT,

The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Esq; Lieut. Governor of the Province of Pensylvania, and Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware.

The Honble Thomas Lee,

Commissioners

Esq;

of

Colonel William Beverly, j

The Honble Edm. Jennings, Esq;

Philip Thomas, Esq;

Virginia.

Commis

sioners of

Colonel Robert King,

Mary

land.

Colonel Thomas Colville,

The Deputies of the Onandagoes, Senecas, Cayogoes, Oneidas and Tuscaroraes. Conrad Weiser, Interpreter.

THE

HE Governor and the Commissioners took some of the Indian Chiefs by the Hand, and, after they had seated themselves, the Governor bid them welcome into the Government; and there being Wine and Punch