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L.H.J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 6
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appropriated the Sum of £3000 towards engaging the Assistance
and cultivating the Friendship of the Southern Tribes of Indians,
was Repealed, and that Money directed to be applied towards support-
ing the Troops which had been raised for the more immediate
Defence of this Province. I am informed by the Agents, that no
more than £229,10 has been yet drawn out of the £4000 which were
by the Two abovementioned Acts appropriated towards Rewarding
such as should Kill, or take any of our Indian Enemies Prisoners,
so that there still remains unexpended the Sum of £3790.10. I must
also take the Liberty to inform you. that the honourable Mr. Atkin.
whom his Majesty has been graciously pleased by his Commission
to appoint his sole Agent and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in
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the Southern District of America, has signified to me, that it is con-
trary to the Treaties which have been heretofore made with the
Cherokee Tribes, and which he is now about to renew with them
in his Majesty's Name, and on Behalf of all his Majesty's Subjects,
for them to demand or expect any certain Reward for Scalps. You
will, I am persuaded, be convinced by the inclosed extract from his
Letter, of the Impropriety of the several Colonies giving any fixed
Rewards for Scalps: You will likewise see, that he has told the
Indians, that they are not to expect any such Rewards; and as they
have been assured, that all other Persons, beside himself, are by his
Majesty strictly forbidden to concern themselves with them or their
Affairs, I must desire you to make such Provision for the Support
and Encouragement of the Cherokees that are now on our Frontiers,
and for any other Parties that may come hither, out of the Money
which has been heretofore appropriated for Scalps, as shall be judged
necessary. Whatever Presents are given to them must be delivered
to Mr. Atkin, or his Deputy, according to the Regulations that have
been established in Virginia, where a large Sum of Money has been
Granted for the Use of all our Indian Allies, and left intirely to the
Management and Disposition of his Majesty's Agent; and if you
are really so fond of having the Assistance of those Southern Indians,
as you profess yourselves, I doubt not but you will readily come into
the same Measures that the Virginians have done.
6th December, 1757.
Hor.o Sharpe.
6.th Dec/ 1757
Extract from Mr. [Edmund] Atkin's Letter
I find several of our Collonies 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 inasmuch 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
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