426 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1 748.

Lib. C. B.

The Committee appointed to take under Consideration
those parts of his Excellencys Speech which Relate to the
meeting of the Commissioners Lately held at New York, and
to the securing the Indians of the Six Nations, as also his
Excellencys Message of the 31^st of May, are humbly of Opinion
That it is not expedient for the Court at this time to come
into any new Resolutions respecting the result of the Com-
missioners who lately Conven'd at New York, but that it is of
Great Importance to this Government as well as to those on
whose borders the Six Nations of Indians are situated that
Measures should now be taken for preserving said Indians in
their good affection to his Majestys Subjects, and Attachment
to his Interest; and that the treaty or Interview proposed by

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his Excellency will in all Probability Greatly tend to Strengthen
such affection and Attachment and as this Government have
Generally appeared by their Commissioners at such Inter-
views, the Committee are of Opinion that three Gentlemen
be now chosen by this Court to attend his Excellency the
Governor and that they be impowered, in case any bounty or
reward shall be found necessary in order to Encourage the
Indians to acts of hostility against the French, over & above
what may be allowed by his Majesty, to engage for the same
on the Part of this Government agreeable to such Instructions
as they shall Receive from the Court for this purpose
The Committee are further humbly of Opinion that the
Gentlemen sent from this Government be instructed by the
Court and fully impowered (with the Approbation of his
Excellency the Governor) to Joyn with any other Governments
who shall be Present at this Interview, in humbly Represent-
ing to his Majesty the distressed State of their Governments
by means of the French in Canada, the necessity of the Re-
duction thereof, and the Inability of the Several Governments
to effect the same at their own Charge, and humbly Praying
his Majestys favour in allowing Forces to be raised in America
for this Purpose at the Charge & in the Pay of the Crown,
and to order such a number of his Majestys Ships to be sent
up the River of Saint Lawrence as may be thought proper.
And that his Excellency be desired immediately to Advise
the several Governors as far as Maryland of this Interview,
that as many may be Present as Possible
Jacob Wendell by Order

In Council June 8^th 1748 Read and sent down

In the House of Representatives June 8^th 1748 Read and
ordered that this Report be accepted, and that M^r Tyng

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Colonel Heath and Captain Rowell with such as the honour-