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Show . .5...¢s-v.-et..t.-w my" (20) ( 2r ) their Means of Subfifiauce will be more early and the Mo» ties upon many Ocealions, and to make Settie. ther Country more frequent -, and their Depend. ance upon it more fecure; and where they will merits in remote Countries, for particular purpoles: but this lhould always be e. Mediate of neither provoke the Indians by their Encroach~ Government, prudentiy concerted, and cautio:_.1iy ments, nor tempt them by their expofed and defencelels Situation, to attack them. But anon executed -, not left to the l.)eciiion o'ra tingle Gm Vernon‘, and much leis to the interellrd Views of ther Title to Lands might be fet up; That of any Individual or Sert of Indiviuu :15. certain; their Communication with Purchafe from the Indians; which being a Tran- ,‘ The lt'll'llll and ineonliderate i'urluits oi psi} faétion of private Perfons only, would be liable vate l'erfons, have already involved the Colonies to more Abules, and to greater publick Inconveniencies. Such I'urchafes are therefore as in many Dilputes with the Ittuz‘z'wr ', and Objects of much leis Importance than the Acquilition firit‘lly prohibited as the Grants, and in one Re- of Lands, have been produelive of inlinite Mil?- l‘pect the Reil‘raint is carried {till further: for chiefs. even thole Lands which lie within the Limits where Settlement is allowed, but which are Frauds and Abul‘es, as to create a general Dif~ relerved to the Indians, may not be bought truli of. our national Faith, and frequently to occafion Animolities for a long time irreconcilc- by Individuals ~, and if the prel'ent Polieflors {hould at any Time be inclined to dil‘pol‘e there- of, the Proclamation dit'eéts, that the fame/half rte purcha/trt' 0}th for the Ufa and in the Name of the Crown, at fat/2c ptthlz't Meeting of the [aid 1119 Jim to he held far that Plli'jwfi', '13} the Cowman «if the Colonic-5 rtfiirfi‘iveéy within which they flmh' Zia. But none of theft: Provilions are intended to fix Bounds to the Britt/h Empire in Amerita : The Proclamation does not leave room for the Suppolition that the Prohibitions are to be perm manent: on the contrary, it declares in exprefs Terms that they are only for the prtfmt, and It'll his M'ajtfly's P/mfttre [1292/] he further known; for tho' the Circumltances of that Country require them now, yet it may and I doubt not that it will hereafter appear defireable to pafs thefe Bounda"CS. The itinerant Traders among thele ignorant people, have been guilty of luch able. To guard againfi fuch Iivils for the I"u- ture, by preventing improper Perions from be ing concerned in that Barter, which lS‘tlICll‘ or- ly Commerce, it is ordered by the lame l'roclamntion, that every Perfon who engages in it, lhall take out a Licence from the Governor for that purpofe, and give Security to obferve {uch Regulations, as may from time to timebe thought proper for the Benefit of the Illdlflll Trade. The Provifion for future Regulations, gives Realon to hope that fome are in View; and indeed many will be necefl‘ary to lecure the public tranquility, and to make all the Advanu tage that may be made of ruch an Intercourle, tho' the want of certain Inlorrnatitm, and [I :2 late Diliurbances in thofe Parts, may have hi- therto rendered it impodible to ellabliih them ; for it is :1 Work of Delicaey, as an Error once I) 2 com: |
