Proceedings of the Council of Mary land) 1753. 585

Imp^rs It is agreed upon from this day forward to the Worlds
end there shall be an Inviolable Peace and Amity Between the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this Province and
the Chiefs of the Pocomoke and Asseteague Indian Towns
upon Articles hereafter in this Treaty agreed upon and that
all former Acts of Hostility and Damages Whatsoever sus-
tained shall be Buried in perpetual Oblivion.
2^dly That if any Indian or Indians Subject to the said Chiefs
shall hereafter Assault Beat or kill an English Man or Plot
or Conspire to make war with the English Inhabitants the said
Chiefs shall be Obliged to deliver such Indians up to the
Governor of this Province to suffer as the English should do
for the Like Offence.
3^dly For as much as the English cannot easily Distinguish
one Indian from another that no Indian shall Come into any
English Plantation painted and that all the Indians shall be
bound to call aloud before they Come within one Hundred
Paces of any English mans Clear Ground and lay down their
Arms whether Guns Bows and Arrows or other Weapons and
move a Distance from them that any English man that shall
appear upon their call may take them up and in Case that no
one Appears that they shall leave their said Arms if they
Come nearer and afterwards to call aloud to give notice to

the English of their nearer Approach and if any English Man

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shall kill an Indian that shall Come unpainted and give notice
and Deliver up his Arms as aforesaid he shall die for it as
well as an Indian that shall kill an Englishman and in Case
the Indians and English meet Accidentally in the woods every
Indian shall be bound immediately to throw down his Arms
upon call and move from them and if an Indian meeting an
English man shall refuse to throw down his Arms upon call
as aforesaid he shall be deemed an enemy and treated as such
4^thly That the said Chiefs shall never Join with the Nanti-
coke Indians in the Choice of an Emperor or chief or be Sub-
ject in any manner to them nor Shall they Suffer any Indian
Subject to them to carry a Gun without License from his
Excellency the Governor of Maryland and if any Indian shall
be found with a Gun without such License he shall Forfeit his
Gun and be Treated as an Enemy.
5'^hly The Priviledge of Crabbing Fowling Hunting and Fish-
ing shall be preserved to the Indians Inviolably.
6^thly That every Indian that Killeth or Stealeth an Hogg

Calf, or other Beast or any other goods shall undergo the
same punishment that an Englishman doth for the Like Offence
7^thly If any Servants or Slaves Runaway from their Masters
to any of the Indian Towns within the Territories of the said
Chiefs their Subjects shall be Bound to apprehend the said

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