The other Affairs of the Department, the necessity for continuing the boundary Line Northerly from Owegy so as to Establish bounds between them & New York in such manner as the Ind^. shall be prevailed upon to agree to, I hope to receive your Lordships Com*l^ upon. -- As to the other objects of Concern & the Extraordinary Intelligences received I am doing all in my power thereon, and hope to lay them & other matters more fully before y'. Lordship in my next, -- but the subject of this letter having a ready drawn it out to an immoderate Length I must for the present draw to a Conclusion by Expressing my Humble

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Gratituile to his Majesty for the Augmentation of my Sallary &

my smcere tlianks to your Lordship, assuring you that I should not

desire it, longer than I was able to do real service & that as all

my proposals have been directed with that view the same shall ever

remain the invariable rule of ray Conduct, thro' which I persuade

myself of his Majestys favor and the Continuance of y^ Lordships

Countenance.

I have the Honor to be

Endorsed, July 20*^. 1768.

To the Earle of Hillsboro.

Points out the Necessity of an add^. allowance for the Dep^y*

&c.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Johnson Hall Augt 17th 1768.

My Lord

I had the honor of addressing a Letter (N°. 2) of the 20tl» ulto to your Lordship, iraediately after my return from the Sea coast, therein I took the liberty to offer some thoughts concerning the present Reform and Arrangements Some of which I flatter myself would prove Seasonable.