I take this opertunity to return you the three Belts of Wamp*". Sent by you to the Governour, with a request to hinder the Rum from comeing among you. He was verry glad to gratifie you iii it, and that you had seen the 111 Consequences of that bewitching Liquor, and hopes you will Continue in that Resolution always, The Proclamation forbidding Rum to be Sent, or Sold Any Where among you (Except at Oswego) is already published.

Here Returned them their .3 Belts --

Sm WILLIAM JOHNSON. 637

BUETHEREN OF THE SiX NaTIONS

I have only to recommend what I have said in your Brother the Governours Name, to your Serious Consideration, and when you are prepared to return an Answer, I should be glad to hear it by the Lake, where I am encamped, and have a small Present for you, & some provision for your Children --

The Red Head in behalf of the Whole Stood up, & replied thus Brother Warraghiiyagee --

You may be assured we shall take to Heart all your words, & deliberate upon everry Article, and as it requires some time, you must not think it long, if we do not come down to the Lake where you lay, as you expect to morrow, it may be the next day, tho we consider it cannot be agreeable to you to live in the WooJs, we shall make' what dispatch we can --

Parted for that Day -- Att a General Meeting of the Six Nations Held at Onondaga September the lO-h. 1753_