of the feudal Tenures, and Imagined that mine might be so to with such priviledges as they have, for the rest I shall think of it and doubt not of the friendship or Assistance of your Son & M"" Banyar on the occasion. --

Whenever it is agreable to you I shall be verj' Glad to hear from you & shall always Cultivate your friend by Correspondence by \\Titing you any thing that may be of the least use or amusement to you,& Sincerely wish you the Continuance of your health Being with great Truth D"^ Sir

Your faithfull friend & very humble Servt The Honble L* Gov^ Colden.

LORD HILLSBOROUGH TO SIR W^. JOHNSON.

Duplicate. Whitehall, May 13. 1769.

Sir,

Since my letters to you of the 4* of January and 24^^ of March last No 8 and 9, the Lords of Trade have made their Report to His Majesty upon the proceedings of the Superintendants for Indian Affairs, in settling a final Boundary Line between His Majesty's Colonies and the Indian Country.

This Report has been referred by the King's command to the consideration of such of His Servants, upon whose advice His Majesty relies in matters of the greatest importance ; and I am thereupon to signify to you, that if you have not been able, in consequence of my letter of the 4^^ of January last N^ 8, to induce the Six Nations and their Allies to except out of the cession to His Majesty the lands lying South of the Ohio below the Kanawa, upon the ground and argument suggested in that letter, or if you shall be of opinion that insisting upon such an alteration will have the effect to excite Jealousy and Discontent ; in that case His Majesty, rather than risk the defeating the important object of establishing a final Boundary Line, will upon your Report of this matter, give the necessary directions for the confirmation of it as agreed upon at Fort StanM^is : It is not however His Majesty's