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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Tuesday
the first of November in the seventh Year of his Lordships
dominion Annoq Domini 1757.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

The
honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond
Sam^l Chamberlain
Esq^r

Col Benjamin Tasker
Benedict Calvert Esq^r
Col Rob^t Jenckins Henry.

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board draw an Order on
the honourable Col: Edward Lloyd Treasurer of the Eastern
Shore payable to M^r Henry Walls or Order for twenty five
pounds sterling, being his yearly Salary as Armourer of this
Province, ending the 29^th of September last to be paid out
of the Duty of 3^d p. Hhd for Arms &c.

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His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter.
30^th June 1757.

I find several of our Colonies are become fond of giving
large Rewards for Scalps; if those Rewards were confined
to their own People it would be a very laudable Thing, in as
much as it would be the Means of animating many poor white
Men who have been used to the Woods to go in Quest of the
Enemy Indians, and it would afford that Support to some of
them in particular who have been driven from their own
Habitations in the back Settlements by the War which they
are certainly the best intitled to; but as those Rewards are
intended and offered chiefly to the Indians the Case is very
different, for besides that this is truly and literally inter-
fering (which I have Reason to believe the several Governors
have been cautioned not to do) with the Management of the
Things two Super Intendants thro whose Hands all Presents
and Rewards whatever to the Indians in his Alliance ought to
pass, it encouraging to the utmost private scalping whereby
the most innocent and helpless Persons, even Women and
Children are properly murthered without the least Benefit
accruing by it, Actions becoming only the greatest Savages,
and unworthy of any Christian People to reward. I am well
assured Lord Loudoun detests that Practice, and that the
French General Moncalm in Canada does the same, Sir Wil-
liam Johnson gives no Reward at all in particular for Scalps
by Name, the Warriors fitted out by him to War deliver to
him at their Return all that they bring back, and he after-
wards presents them to the Relations of such as lose their