100 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

7^thly That the Commissioners be instructed to engage those
Tribes to Assist the English in the present Dispute and to
take up the Hatchett against the French & their Indians and
that they be enabled to Promise English Pay & Provisions,
Arms Ammunition and Indian Cloaths to such of their
Warriors as shall join his Majestys Forces or the Troops
in the Service of any of the Western Provinces, and as to
such of them as shall incline to Attack the French upon the
Ohio, or any of the Indians in their Alliance to Promise them
Certain Rewards for every Prisoner or Scalp they shall bring
in, & to appoint certain Places to which such Scalps. or Pris-
oners shall be brought
gthiy That proper Persons be appointed by the Commission-
ers to Return with the Indians from the Treaty into their
Own Country if Necessary to Conduct the Warriors to such
Places as shall be Appointed for their Rendezvous where
Stores of Provisions Arms & Ammunition should be Pro-
vided for their use.

p. 81

It is the Opinion of this Board that the Present General
Assembly of this Province which stands Prorogued to the
20^th day of February next do then Meet and proceed on
Business and that Notice be given accordingly

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Saturday
the 10^th day of January in the fifth year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoque Domini 1756.
Present as Yesterday
His Excellency is Pleased to lay before this Board the
following Extract

Extract from the Record of the Proceedings of the Hon-
ourable William Johnson Esq^r with the Confederate Nations
of Indians at the publick Meeting at Mount Johnson in June
and July 1755.

Brother
We have taken into Our Confederacy our Children the
Schanadarighroones and they are desirous you will look upon
them as your Brethren, there are many of them who at
Present live in Maryland and want to come and live near to
Us, that both our Strength and theirs may be increased. We
have Sent for them by Belts of Wampum, but they are not
effectual, for there are three Colonels in Maryland near
whose houses they live who in conjunction with three Chief
Men amongst those Indians who will not let them Come
away. We desire you will interpose & write to those Persons
to let them come away Gave a String