Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 501

     11: Whether is the Ordr of yor Councill of the 14th ffebruary Lib. H. D.

   1693/4 (that noe Ships should be clear'd in that Province

   without giving Security to call upon Sr Edmund Andros in

   Virga) continued to be' observed?

     1 2: What has been the Success of yor Proclamation of the

   17th August 1695 And the other means you have used against

   illegall Trade by way of Pensilvania?

     1 3: What Number of Ships or other Vessells are there

   belonging to the Province? And what Number of Sea faring

   Men?

     14: What Number and what Sorts of those Vessells have

   been built there?

     15: What Navall Stores of any Sort (masts, Timber, Pitch,

   Tar, Rozin, Hemp, Salt peter &ca) is tht Province able to ifur

   nish? and what facility or difficulty may there be in doing it? p. 94

     16: What Manufactures are Setled in that Province, of any

   Sort whatsoever.

     17: What Nations of Indians are there in that Province, or

   upon yor Borders? And in what correspondence do you live

   with Each of them respectively; ifriend ship or Enmity?

     18: What fforreign Indians are those (of what Strength, and

   what point of the Compass do they lye from you) which are

   mention'd in the Journalls of yor Councill (in the month of

   October 1695) to pass along yor ifrontiers in their Journeys

   Southward?

     19: What means have been at any time or are now used to

   Convert the Indians in those parts to the Christian Religion?

   And with what success?

     20: Are any of those Indians brought to live amongst you,

   in a Setled way, and to learn our language? And what way

   are they, or may they be, made Usefull?

     21: What has been the Success of the Treaty with the Sen

   niquos Susquehanetis and Shevanoe Indians in the month of

   May 1696?

     22: What Number of Rangers are imployed for the Security

   of yor ffrontiers? What is the Nature of their Service; what

   Indians are joyned with them?

     23: To all wch Enquiries we also further desire you to add

   whatever else you may in yor own Prudence think Conducive to

   his Mats Service, to the Interest of England, to the Advantage

   of that particular Province, and to our Assistance in the dis

   charge of the Trust Reposed in Us?

     24: And now we are to Acquaint you that we have Received

   yor Letters of the 18th of March and of the 12th of June last,

   directed to the Rt honrble the Lords of the late Comittee for

   Trade and Plantations together with the Journalls of Councill

   and Assemblies, and the Laws mention'd in the ffirst of them