If an act of the Legislature cannot be obtained to prohibit this Sale of Rum to the Indians without any Limitation of Time, I do in the most earnest manner request your Honour, that you will apply to the Assembly to form an Act with such Pains, & Penalties, against this Sale of Rum to the Indians, during the present Situation of publick affairs, as may be (so far as possible:) effectual to prevent it. Unless such a Law is made, and the observance of it secured in the strongest manner, the General Interest in my humble opinion, will infallibly suffer, and those measures now in agitation for the Honour of his Majesty's Crown, and the Security & Welfare of his Subjects in these Parts, be

greatly embarrassed.

I am with great Respect Sir

Your Honours Mount Johnson 2^ of June Most obedient Servant

1755. Wm. Johnson.

P. S. there should be a clause in the Act to prevent Peoples buying their Arms Amunition Cloathing &'^a. or exchange ing.

To Gov^. DeLancey.

Sir

As Mr. Banyar writes me that my Pattent is ready for the seal, I hereinclose a note of Hand for the amount of your Honours

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 657

Foes, which I hope you will accept. The many disappointments I have lately mett with, together with my purchase of Lands, Ginseng &'=a puts it out of my power at present to advance that sum ; otherwise I would have paid it with pleasure.

I am Yrs

Wm. Johnson.