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members to come and Attend this Board in Order to dis-
course the Indians waiting for an Audience
Proceeds to consider of the Method and Manner of dis-
coursing & Treating with the Emperor of Pisscattaway and
other the Indians now Attending Resolved that the Emperor

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of Piscattoway be first Called in and made acquainted with His
Excellencys Inclination and design to renew and keep Peace
and Amity with him & all Other Our Neighbouring and
friend Indians according to the former Usage and Custom and
practice of the Government of this Province, and that fit and
Necessary Articles & Proposalls will be prepared and Drawn
up for the better and more firm Establishment thereof, but
first to let him know that there has been lately some Injury
and Violence done and Offered to the Inhabitants by some
Indians, which by the best Information We have and other
pregnant Circumstances, it is Shrewdly to be Suspected to
have been done by him or some other of Our Neighbouring
Indians not unknown to him or his Indians and therefore it is
Expected he will use his Endeavour to find out and discover
the same whereby the Actors may be brought to Condign
Punishment or Satisfaction made for the Same, as the Case
may require after the Emperor shall have been discoursed in
manner aforesaid and given Answer to such other Interroga-
torys as shall be proposed unto him by the Board, then to
advise him that this Board desire to Examine some other of
his Indians apart by themselves concerng the Premisses, to
which (it is Expected) he will Consent but whether he do or
not resolved that after the said Emperor shall have done, some
one or two of the Council do accompany him to some other
Private Room and there Entertain him untill such time as the
rest of the Indians shall be called in and Examined as afore-
said
A Message from the house by M^r James Smallwood in
writing as follows Viz^t

By the house of Assembly 13th May 1692.
As to the Answer to the second Message to this house, this
house say before their Honours answer thereto they had
Ordered that a Bill of Recognition of his Maj^tys right and Title
to this Province also a Bill for relief against the Act of Limi-
tations & also another Bill for Salving of all Errors in pro-
ceedings at Law Occasioned by the late Revolution Ordered
to be brought into this house by some other Members of the
said house, then the said Committee, that so the said Com-
mittee for Inspection of the Laws may Proceed upon their
Charge from this house, in which the most Materiall Matters

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