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I have a matter to Recomend to you which may be of Great
Service to the Province It is a trade with The Indians to
Accomplish which his Lordship in his Instructions Comanded
me to use my Endeavours for Entring into a Treaty with the
Northern Indians and to make them an handsome present at
his Lordships Own Expence in the makeing of which Treaty
I was happily prevented by those Indians comeing down to me
and Sueing for such Terms and Stipulations of peace as will
not only Secure our Frontier Inhabitants but promote the
Trade for the Advantage of the People so that a Lasting
Friendship is Concluded with them for our Inhabitants and we
have a very fair prospect for a Comerce.
There is one Obstacle on our Side which at Present Lays
us under a great disadvantage in that Trade I mean the Duty
on Furrs which is recommended by his Lordship to you as
being of Little Advantage to the Free schools as his Lordship
is Informed and it remains with you Gent to Consider Whether
the takeing off that Duty and Laying an equivalent Duty upon
Some thing else would not be a greater Advantage to the
Province in Generall than as it now stands; I am very well
Convinced our neighbours have reap'd great Advantages, by
their Trade with the Indians whom (according to an Observa-
tion Lately taken By his Lordships Order to Assert his Boun-
daries) I find to be in the Limits of Maryland.
Cha Calvert
No 1. An Engrost Bill for reviveing an Act Entituled an
Act for raising a Duty of three pence p hhd on all Tobacco
Exported out of this province for the uses therein mentioned.
2. An Engrost Bill reviveing and Continueing the Act
for Ascertaining the Guage and Tare of Tobacco hogsheads
&c.
3. An Engrost Bill reviveing and Continueing an Act
for regulateing of Ordinaries.
4. An Engrost Bill reviveing and Continueing an Act of
Assembly Entituled an Act for relieving the Inhabitants of
this Province from some Aggrievances in the prosecution of
Suits at Law.
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