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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1671-1681
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 290 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1678-1679.
Lib. R. calling aloud Endeavour to give notice to the English of his
neerer approach And if any English man shall kill any Indian
that shall come unpainted & give such notice & deliver up
his Armes as aforesd he shall dye for it as well an Indian
that kills an English man and in case the English & Indians
meet accidentally in the woods every Indian shall be bound
imediatly to throw down his Armes upon call and in Case
any Indian so meeting an English man shall refuse to throw
down his Armes upon call he shall be deemed as an Enemy.
4. The Priviledge of Hunting, Crabbing, ffishing, And
fowling shalbe prserved to the Indians Inviolably
5. That in Case of Danger the Governr shall appoint a
place to which the Indians of the aforesaid Nacons shall bring
their wives & children to be secured from danger of any
forreign Indians and that in Case the men of the aforesaid
nacons chance to be killed that the women & children shall
remain free & not be Servts to the English.
6. That Nicholas Emanson do make the Indians of Nange-
maick satisfaccon for the damage by him done to their Corn
in Case George Thompson & John Brown testify that the
said Emanson did willfully thrown down their ffence about
their Corn ffield
7. That the Indians of Nanjemaick shall remain upon the
place where they now live and that Necutahainon son to their
last King be King over that people imediatly undr the Protec-
tion of the Lord Proprietor of this Province and Subject to
no Indian whatsoever.
8. That John Roberts & Thomas Maris do pay the Indians
of Chingwawateick one hundred & twenty arms length of
Roan Oak for the Indian that was Slain by them at the head
of Portoback Creek in August last
9. That every Indian tht killeth or stealeth a hog calf or
other beast or other Goods shall undergo the same pun-
ishmt that an English man doth for the same offence
10. That the severall Nacons aforesaid shall continue upon
the places where they now live and that the honble the Gov-
ernr be desired to lay out their sevrall bounds as to him in
Justice shall seem most for the publique good between this
p. 118 5 and the last of June next ensueing within which bounds it
shall not be lawfull for the said Nacons to entertain any
forreign Indians whatsoever to live with them without leave
from the Lord Proprietor or his chief Governr here for the
time being and that the said Indians shall not be forced or
removed from the said places so to be limitted & appointed
to them by the Governt as aforesaid unless the Nacon or
Nacons or any particular person of those Nacons hereafter to
be removed shall signify their willingness to be removed by


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