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addresse  made  to  two  of  the  justices  of  that  county  they  desire  to  oyster  or  gather 
wild  fruite  in,  as  aforesaid,  they  the  said  justices  shall  grant  a  lycense  to  the  said 
Indians  to  oyster  or  gather  fruites  as  aforesaid. 
But  the  time  was  to  be  limited,  and  the  Indians  were  to  have  with 
them  "  only  such  tooles  or  implements  as  serve  for  the  end  of  their 
comeing."   No  guns  were  to  be  carried. 
The  use  of  badges  in  identifying  Indians  when  they  visited  the 
English  settlements  is  mentioned  in  the  same  act.  It  was  stated  in 
part : 
.  .  .  because  an  intervall  betweene  the  Indians  and  English  cannot  in  the 
present  neernesse  of  seating  be  soe  laid  out  as  may  wholly  secure  the  English 
from  the  Indians  comeing  in  and  pilfering  things  from  them  if  a  free  inter- 
course be  admitted,  Be  it  therefore  enacted  for  the  prevention  thereof  and  to 
the  end  that  the  nations  may  be  distinguished  and  soe  if  they  are  taken  in 
the  manner  of  doing  any  injuryes  the  sufferers  know  to  what  kings  to  addresse 
themselves  for  remedy,  that  badges  (vizt.)  silver  plates  and  copper  plates  with 
the  name  of  the  towne  graved  upon  them,  be  given  to  all  the  adjacent  kings 
within  our  protection.  And  that  all  the  said  kings  give  it  in  charge  to  their 
people  that  none  of  them  presume  upon  what  occasion  soever  to  come  within 
the  English  bounds  without  those  badges  upon  them  or  one  with  a  badge  in 
their  company,  and  if  any  damage  or  injury  be  done  to  any  Englishman  by 
them  or  any  of  them,  that  then  the  king  or  greate  man  of  the  place  the  badge 
denote  shalbe  answerable  for  itt;  and  if  any  shall  notwithstanding  this  injunc- 
tion be  found  in  our  bounds  without  any  such  badge'  or  not  accompanied  with 
one  that  shall  have  them,  that  then  it  shall  be  lawfull  for  any  Englishman  to 
apprehend  and  carry  him  or  them  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  who  shall 
keepe  him  or  them  in  safe  custody  untill  their  king  or  greate  man  ransome  them 
by  paying  one  hundred  armes  length  of  rohonoake '  for  each  Indian  soe 
taken  .  .  . 
rington,  of  the  Bureau  of  American  Ethnology,  who  states :  "  The  name 
'  cuttyemnions '  evidently  refers  to  some  small  black  or  dark-colored  berry, 
the  species  of  which  has  not  been  determined.  The  name  is  to  be  analysed  as 
follows  :  cutty-,  black,  phonetically  kate  or  makate ;  -min,  berry  of  any  kind ; 
-an  or  -in,  suffix  denoting  plural  of  inanimate  objects,  pluralizing  the  element 
-min.   The  name  therefore  means  small  black  colored  fruits  or  berries." 
°  Certain  of  the  large  metal  plates  discovered  by  Judge  Graham  in  burials 
on  the  banks  of  Port  Tobago  River,  Maryland,  may  have  been  used  as  badges ; 
however,  the  surfaces  of  the  specimens  are  greatly  corroded,  and  if  names 
had  been  engraved  on  them  as  mentioned  in  the  Act,  all  traces  have  disappeared. 
'  The  writer  is  of  the  belief  that  this  referred  specifically  to  the  small  shells, 
Marghiella  virginiana  Conrad,  which  occur  in  vast  quantities  in  the  waters  of 
the  Chesapeake.  The  shells  were  perforated  and  strung  on  threads  of  sinew 
to  serve  as  ornaments.  The  belief  is  suggested  by  a  brief  reference  found  in  the 
small  printed  catalog  of  the  Museum  Tradescantianum,  published  in  London, 
1656.  On  p.  47  of  the  catalog  is  mentioned :  "  Pohatan,  King  of  Virginia's  habit 
all  embroidered  with  shells,  or  Roanoke."  This  was  one  of  the  pieces  associated 
with  the  famed  coronation  of  Powhatan  during  the  autumn  of   1608,  when  the 
