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      The following Articles being prepared & read were Con- Lib. X.

    descended agreed to & Signed by the Subscribers as followeth

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      Articles of Peace & Amity concluded & Agreed upon be

    tween his Excy Nathaniel Blakiston Esqr Captain General &

    Governor in Chief in & over his Majstys Province of Maryland

    & the Territory thereunto belonging & Oquotomaquah Em

    peror of Piscattoway the 8th day of April 1700

      Imprimis It is agreed upon that from this day Forward

    there be an inviolable peace & amity between his most Sacred

    Majesty King William the third of England &Ca & his Sub

    jects the Inhabitants of this Province & the Emperor of Pis

    cattoway upon the Articles hereafter mentioned to the worlds

    end to Endure & that all former Acts of Hostility & Damages

    whatsoever by either party sustained be Buried in perpetual

    Oblivion

      2dly That if any Indian subject to the said Emperor shall p. 237

    hereafter chance to kill an English man the said Emperor

    shall be obliged to deliver such Indian up to the Govr of this

    Province as a Prisoner

      3dIy Forasmuch as the English cannot Easily distinguish

    one Indian from another that no Indian shall come into any

    English Plantation painted & that all the Indians shall be bound

    to call aloud before they come within three hundred paces

    of any English mans clear Ground and lay down their arms

    whether Guns Bows or Arrows or other weapon for any Eng

    lish man that shall Appear upon his call to take up & in case

    that no one appear that he shall there Leave his Arms if he

    come nearer & that afterwards he shall by calling aloud

    endeavour to give notice of his nearer Approach & if any

    Indian shall be killed by an English man that shall come

    unpainted & give notice & deliver up his Arms as aforesaid

    he shall dye for it as well as an Indian that kills an English

    man & in case the Indians & English meet accidentally in the

    Woods every Indian shall be bound immediately to throw

    down his Arms upon call & in case an Indian so meeting an

    English man shall Refuse to throw down his Arms upon call

    he shall be deemed as an Enemy

      4thly the Priveledge of Crabbing fowling hunting & fish

    ing shall be preserved to the Indians inviolably

      5thly That every Indian that kills or steals an Hog Calf or

    other Beast or any other Goods shall undergo the same pun

    ishmt as an English man doth for the same Offence

      6thly In Case any Servants or Slaves run away from their p. 238

    Masters & come to any of the Indians Towns within the

    Territorys of the said Ocquotomaquah & his Subjects they