I have wrote to Major Gorham about his acco*^ and the Establishments he has made some of which I by no means approve of, Such an expence in that Quarter may I think be well dispensed with.

What I meant with regard to the Officers Sallarys was that agreeable to the Estimate I should furnish I might have a sum of money put into my hands to answer their several demands.

The Expectation I had of some plan's taking place hitherto retarded many necessary regulations with regard to the Numbers and Sallarys of the Officers. All the Commssy^ intended by the plan, are not as yet appointed but some of the posts proposed lying in Nova Scotia &c. are indeed less material. The office is almost useless unless the Traders are confined to the posts. My Depulys require some alterations in their office, as my immediate representatives it is not easy to conceive the expences they must incurr, and the charge they are at from the resort of the Indians to them, from their travelling and other Charges, purely incidental to their office. Such is the Nature of Indian Employments that they are not to be weighed with others of the same sallary where men have to do with a reasonable people.

A<, now circumstanced, few or none in the character of

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 887

Gentlemen, and thoroughly acquamted with the nature and cost of attending that duly would incline to it if subject to the same expense and trouble. These lesser Expences am*, to so much annually that they are introduced into the public accot^. and sev^. of them serve to augment mine, which besides its giving a Latitude I don't approve of. Creates Irregularities in acct* and therefore I long since intended to rectify it by a fixed augmentation to their Sallary of jEIOO p ann. for all their Travelling charges & Expenses of a private Nature, and I now think it absolutely necessary, as a saving of much expense and trouble & a proper check upon them, So that I shall state it in the next Estimate.