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to afcertain the number of arms in the poffefficn of individuals ; it 

 being feared, that, inftead of their being properly diftributed among 

 the fettlers for their protection, many were to be found in the hands 

 of perfons who ufed them in {hooting, or in committing depredations. 

 It was attempted a fecond time to difcover their number, by directing 

 all perfons (the military excepted) who were in poffeffion of arms, to 

 bring them to the Commiflary's Office, where, after registering them, 

 they were to receive certificates figned by him, of their being permit- 

 ted to carry fuch arms. 



Some few fettlers, who valued their arms as neceflary to their de- 

 fence againft the natives and againft thieves, haftened to the office for 

 their certificate ; but of between two and three hundred {lands of arms 

 which belonged to the crown not fifty were accounted for. 



Black Casfar was (till in the woods with feveral others of his own 

 ftamp, all of whom were armed ; and as he fent word, that he neither 

 would return nor naffer himfelf to be taken alive, it became neceffary 

 to fecure him. Notice was therefore given, that whoever mould make 

 him their prifoner, and bring him to the Governor, mould be re- 

 Warded. 



The fettlers, and thofe people who were occafionally fupplied with 

 ammunition by the officers, were informed that if they mould be 

 hereafter difcovered to have fo abufed the confidence placed in them, 

 as to fupply thofe common plunderers with any part of this ammu- 

 nition, they mould be deemed accomplices in the robberies commit- 

 ted by them, and fteps would be taken to bring them to punifhment 

 as 'aeeeflaries. 



To relieve the mind from the contemplation of circumstances fo 

 irkfome to humanity, on the 23d the Ceres Store-fhip arrived from 

 England. It was impoffible that a (hip could ever reach that diftant 

 part of his Majefty's dominions from England, or from any other 

 part of the world, without bringing a change to the ideas of its inha- 

 bitants, or even without giving fome variety to their amufements. 

 The introduction -of a ftranger among them had ever been an object: 



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