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Peter Penet among the Oneida Indians. 



Council, he shall have power to break the vessels where 

 such liquor is found, after the first warning ; and if any 

 merchant or trader shall attempt the second time, after 

 warned not to sell any rum or any spirituous liquors, all his 

 liquors shall be stove, and his other goods became a 

 public prize. 



Art. 15. A regular school to be opened in the English 

 tongue, for the benefit of the Oneida nation. The nation 

 building a house, which shall prove convenient for that 

 purpose, and setting apart a tract of clear land, part for 

 the maintainance of the master and family, and the remain- 

 der to be hired out by the said master for his benefit so 

 long as he may continue in the aforesaid service ; and then 

 to £0 to the one who shall succeed him. 



Art. 16. At the Grand Council it is also found benefi- 

 cial that they be provided with one or two surveyors to 

 survey their lands from line to line, and then to lay all 

 out into proper lots, with their numbers, as the maps shall 

 direct, to prevent any trouble or debate that might here- 

 after arise. 



Art. 17. It is also judged necessary that the Grand 

 Council of the Oneida nation, should be furnished with 

 one interpreter of their own ; that they always may depend 

 that he declares the truth of all business committed to his 

 charge, to prevent mistakes, and save them from the 

 alarm of false interpreting. 



Art. 18. So soon as the revenues of the nation will 

 permit, the Grand Council will, at their discretion, look 

 out six young men, of the age of twelve or thirteen years, 

 that are of quick comprehension, apt to learn, as also of 

 good and honest morals, to travel abroad, perhaps, two to 

 England, two to France, and two to some parts of the 

 neighboring states, or elsewhere, as their inclination may 

 direct them amongst the white people ; to learn not only 

 the languages, but to observe their ways and manners, 

 which may and will prove very advantageous to the whole 

 nation, in a few years if rightly attended to. 



