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ing are fixed I shall authorize proper Commissioners from
this Province to meet and discuss with those of the other
Colonies this very weighty and important Business. And as
the City of New York appears to me of all others the most
centrical and convenient Situation for this Meeting I should
be well pleased it was pitched upon for that purpose and the
more so as the Commissioners will thereby have it in their
Power to avail themselves of your advice and assistance in
framing such Regulations as may best Answer the Intentions
of Government; when the Meeting is fixed you will be so
obliging as to give me Notice, that the Commissioners from
this Province may repair thither without loss of Time
I am with great Regard, Sir
To Your most Obedient & most humble Serv^t
The Hon^ble Cadwallader Colden Esq^r Guy Carleton
Lieu^t Governor of the Province of New York

[L S] An Act for appointing Commissioners to meet
with Commissioners who are or may be ap-
pointed by the Legislatures of the Neighbour-
John Penn, ing Colonies to form and agree on a general
Plan for the Regulation of the Indian Trade.
Whereas his Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct
that the Regulation of the Indian Trade for the Future shall
be committed to the care and management of the Colonies
And whereas it is conceived that the good purposes thereby
intended cannot be fully Answered without the Cooperation
of the several Legislatures of the Neighbouring Colonies con-
cerned therein, For obtaining whereof Be it enacted by Hon-
ourable John Penn Esquire Lieutenant Governor under the
Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esquires true
and Absolute Proprietaries of the Province of Pensilvania and
Counties of New Castle Kent and Sussex upon Delaware by
and with the Advice and Consent of the Representatives of
the Freemen of the said Province in General Assembly met
and by the Authority of the same that Joseph Galloway John
Ross, William Rodman, John Morton William Logan and
William West Esquires or any three of them be and they are
hereby appointed Commissioners on the part of the Province
of Pensilvania and fully authorized and impowered to meet
and confer with such Commissioners as are or shall be ap-

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pointed by the several Legislatures of the Colonies of Quebec,
New York, New Jersey, Maryland Virginia and the three
lower Counties on Delaware to agree on a General Plan for
the Regulation of the Indian Trade.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
the said Commissioners for the Province of Pensilvania or