All manner of Trade with the Subjects of France in these parts ought to be prohibited vmder the Severest Penalties.

The Indians ought to be redressed or satisfied, in all their reasonable & well founded complaints of enormous & imrighteously obtained Patents for their Lands and Treaties of Limitations with the respective Provinces agreed upon & reUgiously observed, with regard to the Bounds of our Settlements towards the Indian Country ; in this the Province of Pensilvania & New Jersey lately very wisely & politicly set an Example.

Missionary s of approved Character, abilities & Zeal, with due encouragement, would be of unspeakable advantage to promote our Interests amongst the Indians, & subvert that of the French, whose Industry in this Article has been of infinite Service to them.

A handsome encouragement for Interpreters of Capacity & Education, is extreamly wanted. There are at present none in any tolerable degree qualified for this important employment.

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The Superin tendency & Direction of Indian Affairs & Trade, to be under an Authority from the Crown. Whether this should be invested in lOne Man or in Commissions to several in those provinces which from their sittuation are & always will be more immediately connected with the Indian Regulations & Trade, is submitted to his Majestys Wisdom & Pleasure ; -- but I beg leave to suggest to Your Lordships, that the management herein on the pa it of the Crown, upon the system I am pointing out, will in my opinion be to great a weight &, of too diffusive a nature lor any on'! Person duly" to inspect & preside over.