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tion of the Court of Policy of Essequibo. It was not 
until the 1st of May, 1793, that, by a Proclamation of 
GROVENSTIN'S, it was forbidden to purchase or take 
Free Indians as slaves. The Council of Ten at 
Amsterdam, on the 10th of October, 1774, enjoined upon 
the Colonial authorities that the friendship of the Indians 
was to be cultivated. The treatment of the Indians was 
considered by the Combined Court of Policy on the 
24th of February, 1776. The kidnapping of Indians 
was before the Court of Justice of Essequibo on the 
6th and 19th of January, 1750, and that body enjoined 
non-interference with the Indians, at its sitting on the 
7th October, 1755. The same Court decided upon the 
appointment of an Indian Interpreter on the 21st March, 
1768. Grants of land to the Indians are dealt with in a 
Resolution of the Court of Directors of the 30th of 
September, 1784. 
RELIGION. — In the Minutes of the Court of Justice of 
Essequibo, on the 5th July, 1745, there is record of an 
application to the Court for the i\ per cent, charged on 
Vendues, to be given in aid of the repairs to the Church. 
The Court granted favourable letters to the Consistory, 
to their High Mightinesses (p. 12). A Resolution of 
the Council of Ten at Amsterdam, of the 15th of April, 
1773, treated of the building of a Church (p. 241). In 
the Minutes of the Court of Policy of Essequibo, 
of the 2nd October 1773, there is an application 
from the Sexton and Precentor for payment by a 
fixed salary for burial of the dead. The good man also 
asked that money due to him for binding books in the 
Secretary's Office, be paid to him, (p. 325). In the 
Minutes of the same Court, of the 4th of Februrary 1779, 
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