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as a further inducement and encouragement to all his Majesty's liege 

 people, and to all the several tribes of Indians who continue in friend- 

 ship and alliance with us, to exert and use their utmost endeavor to 

 pursue, attack, take and destroy our said enemy Indians, and to release, 

 redeem and recover such of his Majesty's subjects as have been taken 

 and made prisoners by the same enemies; I do hereby declare and 

 promise that there shall be paid out of the said Sixty Thousand Pounds 

 to all and every person and persons, as well Indians as Christians not in 

 the pay of the Province, the several and respective Premiums and Boun- 

 ties following, that is to say: For every male Indian enemy above twelve 

 years old who shall be taken prisoner and delivered at any forts garri- 

 soned by the troops in the pay of this Province, or at any of the county 

 towns to the keepers of the common jails there, the sum of One Hundred 

 and Fifty Spanish Dollars or Pieces of Eight ; for the scalp of every male 

 Indian enemy above the age of twelve years, produced as evidence of 

 their being killed, the sum of One Hundred and Thirty Pieces of Eight ; 

 for every female Indian taken prisoner and brought in as aforesaid, and 

 for every male Indian prisoner under the age of twelve years taken and 

 brought in as aforesaid. One Hundred and Thirty Pieces of Eight ; for 

 the scalp of every Indian woman, produced as evidence of their being 

 killed, the sum of Fifty Pieces of Eight; and for every English subject 

 that has been taken and carried from this Province into captivity that 

 shall be recovered and brought in and delivered at the City of Philadel- 

 phia to the Governor of this Province, the sum Of one Hundred and Fifty 

 Pieces of Eight, but nothing for their scalps; and that there shall be paid 

 to every Officer or Soldier as are or shall be in the pay of this Province 

 who shall redeem and deliver any English subject carried into captivity 

 as aforesaid, or shall take, bring in, and produce any enemy prisoner, or 

 scalp as aforesaid, one-half of the said several and respective premiums 

 and bounties. 



" Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the Province, at Philadel- 

 phia, the Fourteenth day of April, in the Twenty-Ninth year of His 

 Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven 

 Hundred and Fifty-Six. 



"EoBT. H. Morris." 

 "By His Honor's Command, 



" Richard Peters, Secretary. 



"God Save the King." 

 The disposition which the Province thus displayed towards the Indians, 

 alarmed even those who continued friendly. These had been gathered 

 in from the Susquehannah to the city, lest they should be mistaken for 

 enemies; and now, without assigning any reason, they suddenly resolved 

 to join the Six Nations. Their departure relieved the city of a consider- 



