persuaded you will give to CEconomy, in resisting every exorbitant demand, such expence is to be incurred, and the gratifications to the Indians on this occasion are so far to exceed what might reasonably have been hoped for, it becomes highly expedient that the colonies interested in this measure, and whose limits of settlement are extended by it, should be early apprized of what will be required, in order that they may make timely provision in proportion to the benefit they are respectively to receive from it ; for it cannot, upon any grounds of reason or justice be expected, that this Kingdom should take upon itself the whole, or indeed any part, of the expence of a measure calculated for the local interests of particular Colonies.

His Majesty entirely approves the continuing the beundary line northward from Owegy, so as to include the province of New York, and thereby render the line perfect and complete ; and I am to recommend to you that no time be lost in bringing this negotiation to a conclusion, in the conduct of which it will be necessary that Sir Henry Moore should be consulted, so that there may be a perfect agreement of all parties, by which alone those difficulties may be overcome, which occurred upon this subject in the negotiation of 1765, and which have hitherto made it impossible to give any precise directions from hence.

Having signified to you His Majesty's commands upon all those parts of your letter, upon which you desire instruction, I cannot avoid taking some notice of the observations you make upon the plan for Indian Affairs, prepared by the Lords of Trade in 1764, when I had the honour of a Seat at that Board : But before I make any remarks upon the plan itself as applied to the present state and circumstances of America, you will give me leave to observe to you, that the Lords of Trade did not consider it as a measure ripe for execution, and therefore did not report it to the Kingj but in order to enable themselves to form a more complete judgement of it, they transmitted it as minutes of their board to yourself and the Governors of the Colonies, for your consideration, and to receive your opinion upon the several propositions it contained : What you say therefore of its having met with His Majesty's approbation of its having been carried into execution, and of the assurances