HLs Honour the Lieu* Governor made a proposal as a Branch of Indian Atfairs under the Consideration of this Board ; to build two Forts in the Indian Country to protect them, their Wives and Children, as the best Expedient to secure their Fidelity to his Majesty.

Which proposal The Board determined to proceed upon, after they had considered some method of effecting the Union between the Colonies.

On a motion that a Committee be appointed to prepare and

Receive Plans or Schemes for the Union of the Colonies & to

digest them into one General Plan for the Inspection of this Board

Resolved That each Government choose One of their own

number to be of that Committee.

Accordingly were appointed. Thomas Hutchinson Esq'' for Massachusets Bay Theodore Atkinson Esq"" for New Hampshire William Pitkin Esq^ for Connecticut

Stephen Hopkins Esqf for Rhode Island Benj* Franklin Esq"" for Pensylvania

Benja Tasker Esq^ for Maryland

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 565

Tt was left to his Honour to appoint one of his Majesties Council for the Government of New York and he named William Smith Esq'" Adjourned till to Morrow Morning at 11 oClock.

At a Meeting in the Court House at Albany

on Tuesday the 25th June 1754 A. M. Present Joseph Murray Samuel Welles "\

William Johnson & John Chandler /Esq^s Commissioners John Chambers Oliver Partridge )>for Massachusetts

Esqrs & ^Bay.

of the Council of New John Worthington J York. Richard Wibard \

Meseach . . Weare > Esq''^ Commissioners for New Hampshire. Henry Sherburne )