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their habitation; notwithstanding Avhich, I have received 

 information, that on the 27th of the same month, a large 

 party of armed men again assembled and met together in 

 a riotous and tunniltuous manner, in the county of Lan- 

 caster, where they violently broke open the workhouse, 

 and butchered and put to death 14 of the said Conestoga 

 Indians, men, women and children, who had been taken 

 under the immediate care of the magistrates of said 

 county, and lodged for their better security in the said 

 workhouse, till they should be more effectually provided 

 for by order of the government ; and whom common 

 justice loudly demands, and the laws of the land (upon 

 the prosecution of which not only the liberty and security 

 of every individual, but the being of government itself 

 depends,) require, that the above offenders should be 

 brought to condign punishment ; I have, therefore, by 

 and with the advice of the council, published this procla- 

 mation, and do hereby strictly charge and command all 

 judges, justices, sheriffs, constables, officers civil and mili- 

 tary, and all others liis JMajesty's faithful liege subjects 

 within this province, to make diligent search and inquiry 

 after the authors and perpetrators of the said last men- 

 tioned offenders, their abettors and accomplices, and that 

 they use all possible means to apprehend and secure them 

 in some of the public jails of this province, to be dealt 

 with according to law. 



And I do hereby further promise and engage, that an}^ 

 person or persons, who shall apprehend and secure, or 

 or cause to be apprehended or secured, any three of tlie 

 ringleaders of the said party, and prosecute them to con- 

 viction, shall have and receive for each the public revv'ard 

 of ^200 ; and any accomplice, not concerned in the imme- 

 diate shedding the blood of said Indians, who shall make 

 discovery of any or either of the said ringleaders, and 



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