In my last I took the Liberty to observe to your Lordship concerning the Slender provisions made for the Expences of my Department which had been always considered as the most consid-

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 907

erable & by much the most important of the two Superintendencys, That no mention ia made of my Depys or of Interpreters without whom the business of the Department, could not be conducted, that the former were officers indispensably necessary for the managem* of affairs in the Distant & Different Quarters for many years past, and existing long before any Plan for Trade was adopted, & that the Interpreters, mu«t be always considered as wanting.

The Commissioners were the only officers appointed for the Management of the Trade & their expenses far Exceeded that of all the rest of this Departm*. occasioned principally by our havs. newly got possess^, of the out posts and they are now to be discontinued but a due consideration of the importance of the other dutys to be performed by the department, and of their Multifarious Nature will evince the Necessity there is for some proper Subordinate Officers & Interpreters, which cannot be provided for out of the sum allotted, one thousand pounds p ann of which being for my Sallary, the remaining ^£300, will I fear be found an inadequate sum for Ann^. presents to three large Confederacys of Indians, & other incidental Expences on which the public Tranquility here does in a great measure depend, without a possibility of applying any part of it to the support of such Officers & Assistants as I have repeatedly Shown the Necessity for. But to Manifest my Zeal & readiness to carry on the Management of Indian affairs on a New Arrangement in the manner they ought to be Conducted, I presumed to propose an addition of jEIOOO. p Ann for the Sallarys of 3 Depy^ & Interpreters, and Small as the other Sum may appear resolved to endeavor my utmost that it should answer the purposes of promoting Tranquility & Extending his Majesties Interest, with this View I transmit to Gen^ Gage Commander in chief an Estimate of the Expenses & application of the Sum proposed on the New Arrangement wherein I have proposed the addit" of jGlOOO p ann for 3 Dep)^ 4 Interpreters & a Messenger In this (besides the Sallarys & expenses of the Commissaries now to be discontinued) there is no ])rovision made for a Secretary, Clerk, Storekeeper, Smiths, charges of Transportation of Goods &<=., and one Depy. is Likewise omitted because as my 4^h Depy. has been very lately instituted by direction of his