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the People's settling at Juniata and in other parts of the County of Lan- 

 caster to the Westward of those hills, and became earnest petitioners that 

 all such persons might be made to remove from thence ; I, favouring the 

 request of the said Indians, and to the end that all persons concerned 

 may have sufficient notice of the dangers they incur from their resent- 

 ment and the violation of the Laws, have thought fit to issue this my 

 Proclamation, hereby strictly requiring all persons who have presumed 

 to possess themselves of any lands situate in the places aforesaid, or in 

 any part of the said County of Lancaster to the Westward of the afore- 

 said ridge of mountains, or who have seated themselves on any tracts 

 appropriated to the use of the Indians on this side of those hills, forth- 

 with to leave their possessions and to remove off them with their families 

 and effects, as they will answer the contrary at their highest Peril^ And 

 as by reason of the approaching winter, some may not be able to provide 

 themselves with fit habitations or with the necessaries of life, if they 

 should be compelled immediately to leave their houses and plantations, 

 the removal of such as are in these circumstances is respited to the first 

 day of May next, the longest time that will be allowed any one to con- 

 tinue in the possession of any lands so situate as aforesaid; And I do 

 hereby require the Sheriff of Lancaster County to publish this proclama- 

 tion at the Court House of the said county, and cause copies thereof to 

 be affixed at the most public places, and particularly at Juniata, and 

 from thence all along on the banks of the river Sasquehanna to Wyomen, 

 and at Licking Creek Hills near the Kiver Patowmeck, that none may 

 pretend ignorance thereof. 



Given at PHILADELPHIA under my Hand and the Great Seal of the 

 said Province, the Fifth Day of October, 1742, in the Sixteenth Year 

 of the reign of our Sovereign Lord GEOEGE the Second, by the grace 

 of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the 

 Faith, etc. 



George Thomas. 



God save the King. 



Prior to the Act of 13 Geo. II, for the naturalization of persons set- 

 tling in the American Colonies, aliens were naturalized in Pennsylva- 

 nia by special bills. By that act it was provided, that all persons 

 residing seven years in the colonies, taking an oath, or, if Quakers, 

 an aSirmation, of allegiance and abjuration, and professing the Chris- 

 tian religion as prescribed by the act of the first of William and Mary, 

 should be considered as natural-born subjects. The Dunkards, Mora- 

 vians and Mennonites, now numerous in the Province, were excluded 

 from the benefits of this act, by their scruples in regard to oaths. For 

 remedy of this "An act for naturalizing such Protestants as are settled, 

 or shall settle within the province, who, not being of the people called 



