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6. When required by the prote6lor, he shall be obliged 

 to repair to him without loss of time, and to execute 

 promptly any orders he may receive from the proteflor. 



7. He shall not permit any persons, whether whites, 

 free coloured or negroes to pass the post unless they 

 shew him a pass from the Governor or from one of the 

 prote6lors of the Indians, the latter being empowered to 

 grant such passes, which must always specify the reason 

 why the persons therein named are to go beyond the 

 post. 



8. If any person, not provided with such a pass should 

 attempt to pass the post, the postholder shall be autho- 

 rised, and is even obliged to detain such person or 

 persons, and to bring them to town before the Governor, 

 at the same time giving notice to the prote6lor. 



g. But, to persons having a proper pass he shall give 

 every assistance in his power towards forwarding the 

 business they are upon. 



10. He shall not be allowed to carry on any traffic, 

 nor shall he compel the Indians to sell to him the articles 

 they bring down, but he shall suffer them to proceed 

 without any molestation whatever in their trade. Any 

 articles bought from them he shall cause to be duly paid 

 for. 



11. He is on no account to compel the Indians to do 

 any job or work of whatever nature for him. 



12. He shall not take or appropriate to himself the 

 property of the Indians, much less their wives or children 

 on pretence of their being indebted to him, even in case 

 of an Indian having had goods from him on credit and 

 refusing to pay for the same ; the loss arising therefrom 

 to be for the postholdert 



