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Show ' » . N 226 Remarks m (z P/zm merit to unlicenfed traders, and promote Inch» trades-If the commiflaries or oilieers at the poll's, can prevent the telling of rum during tim ‘ for other goods, and until the Indians going away; it is "er" ' r all that is l ; or neceflary.--The mifiionaries will, among , t things, endeavour to prevail with them to live foberly and avoid drunkennefs. 9. The Indian trade, to far as credit is con- cerned, has hitherto been carried on wholly upon honour. They have among themt‘elves no finch thing as prifons or confinements for debt-This . ,J ‘w article {eems to imply, that an Indian may be com- fllflw‘ 4‘ under. ‘ ' "WWW"‘WH iii imprifonment: The Indians cannot and will not imprifon one another; And if we attempt to imprifon them, Iapprehend it would be generally difliked by the nations, and occafion breaches.- They have fuch high ideas of the value of perlonal liberty, and fueh flight ones of the value ot‘perfonal property; that they would think the ditpi'oportion monfl'rous between the liberty of a man, and a debt of a few (billings; and that it would be exceflively inequitable and unjuft, to take away the one for a default in payment of the other. It feems to me therefore belt, to leave that matter on its prefent footing; the debts under fifty {hillings as irrecoverable by law, as this article pro- pelled . by 11W: v. to Ply a de bt 0 rtn1 Y r1}""1'"1S3 0‘- Our legal method of compulllon is by poles for the debts (above fifty thillings.-Debts of honour are generally as well paid as other debts. Where no compulfion can be uted, it is more difI graceful [A: B.T.] fir regulating Indian qflzim. 227 graceful to be difhonefi.--Ifthe trader thinks his rifque greater in truf'ting any particular Indian, he will either not do it, or proportion his price to his rifque. 44. As the goods for the Indian trade all come from England, and the peltry is chiefly brought to England; perhaps it will be beft to lay the duly here, on the exportation of the one, and theim- portation of the other; to avoid meddling with the queftion, of the right to lay duties in America by parliament here. If it is thought proper to carry the tradintr part I g u n O of this plan into execution, would it not be well to . - (lfmu poflr, to which - the prelbnt try 22‘~ jzrflm colon laws for revulatin the Ind' t 1 1 ran rare ‘0 "0t g b reach;y that by experienc e, its utility may be at.- certained, or its defects difcovered and amended; before it is made general, and thofe laws repealed to make way for it P-If the Indians find by experience that they are better ufed in their trade at the pof'ts, under thefe regulations, than at other places; may it not make them dcfirous of having the regulations extended to other places; 2112C; whch extended, better fatisfied with them upon retice- tion and comparifon '*' ? * [The editor has given the following memorandum of Indian fig/inngmezz, inhabiting near the diltantpolts, in 1762; to indulge L . cations in future times, and thew altb the extent ot‘Dr. lilraiik travels. He believes it likely to have been taken by Dr. l"l v' "1 man expedition which he made, as a commander in the Pen 1\ A win mllitia, in order to determine Illf‘Ill-Lll't‘i and fituatious for the nutpotts; but is by no mean di' ' of tae accuracy of (his Opix ' The paper however is in Dr. 3 G .3 Lliu's liand-‘writing: 2 |