170 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

lences and Murthers have been lately Committed on the In-
dians under the Protection of His Majesty, and whose Tribes
are at present, in Peace and Amity with His Majesty's Prov-
inces, and that the Offenders have not yet been discovered,
and brought to Justice, and likewise that Settlements have
been made on the back of the Provinces, without proper
Authority, and beyond the Limits prescribed by his Majesty's
Royal Proclamation of 1763, and in some places even beyond
the utmost boundaries of any Province in America, and that in
Consequence the Indian Nations, do every where discover
discontents and resentments, which may endanger the Peace
of His Majesty's Provinces and the Safety of his Subjects.
It is therefore his Majesty's Commands that you apply
yourself in the most earnest manner to remedy and prevent
those Evils, which are as contrary to the Rules of good Policy
as of Justice and Equity.
The Violation of those Principles attended also with so
many Dangers to the Provinces is what cannot be permitted.
If a due Obedience had been paid to His Majesty's Royal
Proclamation, and a due attention given to proper Restraints
on the Conduct of the Indian Traders, these Evils would have
been effectually avoided.

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His Majesty's Commander in Chief has received Express
Orders to co-operate with the Civil Government for the en-
forcing a due Obedience to that Proclamation; and his Maj-
esty requires and expects every Measure to be taken which
prudence shall dictate, for the removing such Settlers, pre-
venting in future any such Settlements as are contrary to the
Intention of it, and for apprehending such Offenders whose
daring Crimes have so direct a tendency to Involve the whole
of his Majesty's Provinces in America in an Indian War.
I am with great Truth and Regard Sir
Your most Obedient humble Servant
Deputy Governor of Shelburne.
Maryland.

The following is an Answer to the above Letter from the
Earl of Shelburne One of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State.

My Lord
Since I had the honour to receive your Lordship's Letter
dated the 13^th of Sept^r last I have made Enquiry but cannot
find that any Violence hath been Committed within this
Province on any Indian since the Conclusion of the late War
nor have any Lands been granted in Maryland beyond the
Limits described in his Majesty's Proclamation of 1763. if