534 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

Liber K.
p. 228

appointed his Second and Assistant in the Rule Government
& Command of the said Indians the same being hereby Com-
mitted to them the said Panquas & Annoughtoughk jointly &
severally firmly by these Presents
2 It is then further agreed upon that from this day forward
there be an inviolable peace & amity between their most
serene Majestys King William & Queen Mary af^d and the
said Panquas & Annoughtoughk Commander in Chief &
Governor of the Nantecoke Indians upon the Articles here-
after mentioned to the worlds end to endure, & that all former
Acts of Hostility & Damages whatsoever by either party sus-
tained be buried in perpetual oblivion
3 That the said Indians of Choptank or of any other Nation
now lately gathered together among them & harboured by
them shall & do at the Finishing & gathering in of this present
Crop of Corn by them planted, retire & Withdraw to their
several & respective Towns & places of habitation & that in
the mean time & always hereafter both they & the said
Nantecoke Indians shall well & Sufficiently fence in & secure
the Cornfields by them now already or hereafter to be planted
seven or Eight logs high at the least
4 That the said Panquas & Annoughtoughk or either of
them shall deliver up all Indians that shall Come into their
Government or Dominion that are or shall be Enemies to the
English & further if any Indian subject to them shall kill an
Englishman, that they or either of them shall be obliged to
deliver such Indian up to the Gov^r of this Province for the
time being as a Prisoner

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5 That forasmuch as the English cannot easily distinguish
one Indian from another no Indian shall Come into any Eng-
lish plantation painted & that all the Indians shall be bound to
Call aloud before they come within three hundred paces of
any Englishmans cleared ground & lay down their arms
whither Guns Bows or arrows or other weapons for any
Englishman (that shall appear upon his Call) to take up & in
case no man appear that he shall there leave his said arms if
he shall come nearer & afterwards by calling aloud shall
endeavour to give notice to the English of his near approach
& if any english man -shall kill any Indian that shall Come
unpainted & give such notice & deliver up his arms as afore-
said he shall dye for it as well as an Indian that kills an Eng-
lish man & in case the Indians & English meet in the woods
accidentally Every Indian shall be bound immediately to
throw down his arms upon call & in case any Indian so
meeting an English man shall refuse to throw down his arms
upon call he shall be deemed an Enemy
6 The Priviledge of hunting crabbing fishing & fowling
shall be preserved to the Indians inviolably