You well know, Sir, what are my sentiments with regard to the Regulation of the Indian Trade, but as the plan which I had the Honor, in Conjunction with the rest of my Brethren at the Board of Trade, to suggest for that purpose (and which I am vain enough to think would have operated as a Remedy to the Enormities which have been complained of,) was not adopted, it must depend upon each Colony to take care of its own interests in that respect.

I am, Sir,

Your most Obedient Humble Servant

Sir William Johnson Bar* Hillsbobouch.

998 MANX'SCRIPTS OF

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

AT THE COUKT AT ST JaMEs's THE 14tH DAY OF AUGUST 1772.

(L S) Present,

The King's most Excellent Majesty in Council Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Report from the Right Honourable the Lords, of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs dated the first of last month in the words following Viz.

" " Your Majesty having been pleased by Your Order in Council " of the 24tl» of May 1770 to refer unto this Committee the humble '• Memorial of Thomas Walpole Benjamin Franklin John Sargent "and Samuel Wharton on Behalf of themselves and their Asso- " elates. Setting forth that the Memorialists and others presented a " Petition to your Majesty in Council praying a Grant of Lands " in America (parcel of the Lands purchased by the Government " of the Indians) in Consideration of a price to be paid in purchase " of the same ; that the said Petition was referred by Order of " Council to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations ; " that the memorialists in pursuance of a Suggestion, which arose " upon Consideration of the said Petition at that Board, of making " a Purchase of a larger Tract of Land sufficient for a Separate ^'- Government were directed to apply to the Lords Commissioners " of the Treasury in respect to the Price to be paid for the purchase " of such Tract and the Quit Rent to be reserved thereon ; that " the Memorialists in Consequence thereof did on the 4th day of " January last present to the said Lords Commissioners of the " Treasury a memorial and Paper containing a description of the " Lands they were desirous of Purchasing as follows, Viz* u a u Beginning on the South side of the River Ohio opposite to " " the mouth of Sioto, thence Southerly through the pass in " " the Ouasioto Mountains, to the South side of the said Moun " " tains, thence along the side of the said Mountains North '• " Easterly to the Fork of the Great Kenhawa, made by the ^ " junction of Green Briar and new River, thence along the said Green Briar River, on the Easterly side of the same unto the '-' Head or termination of the North Easterly branch thereof, ^' thence Easterly to the Allegheny mountains, thence along the