As my former letter went by post, I have no doubt, it will reach you, long before they will arrive, and deliver you this, which in that case, will serve only to inform you, that I have advanced the Interpreter Thirty pounds Y Curry, in order to defray their Expenses to you, For the Expenditure of which, he is directed to account with you, and you can add it to the charge of any other Disbursments you shall be obliged to make upon their Accounts, and charge it all together. You'll Be so good to give Captain Maturin a credit upon Mr Mosher for this thirty pounds. When you have recieved a

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Warrant from Mc, for tlie Amount of your half Yearly Expenses, In which those incurred upon this Occasion, will of course be included. I am with great Regard

Dear Sir,

Your most Obedient humble Servant Sir William Johnson B' " Tho^ Gage.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

New York Dec. 20th. 1767.

Dear Sir

Since my last to you, I wrote to Governors Penn and Fauquiere, setting forth the Calamities which threatened their Provinces from the encroachments which had been made by the People from both, upon the Indians Lands; the necessity to remove them forceably, and if the present Laws were not sufficient to protect the Indians in their Persons and Properties, or the Coercive Powers of Government too weak to restrain such a Lawless Banditti, it seemed to me proper to make new Laws, and strengthen the Hands of Government: and offered all the military aid in my Power to effect so salutary a work. I have not yet heard from Mr. Fauquiere, but Governor Penn shews the greatest readiness to cooperate with me, and tells me that he shall lay the matter before his Assembly, & recommend it in the strongest manner to them, to concur with him in the most certain expedients for the Removal of all the People settled on the Indian's Lands within the Province, which has been hitherto attempted in vain by Proclamations, and Threats of Military Execution and also in order to enable him effectualy to exert the Powers of Government, to frame such a Law as will be fully sufficient to compel those Intruders to pay due submission to the Civil Authority.