APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

Proceedings of the Congress of the Confederation, relating to Indians and Indian Affairs.

A petition from the committee representing the people in to Congress, that part of Augusta county, in the colony of Virginia, on the June 1,1775, west side of the Allegany mountain, was laid before the Congress and read, intimating "fears of a rupture with the Indians on account of lord Dunmore's conduct," and desiring missioners, from the colony of Virginia andprovince of Pennsylvania, to attend a meeting of the Indians at Pittsburg, on behalf of these colonies."

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Ordered, That the above be referred to the delegates of the colonies of Virginia and Pennsylvania.

A number of letters and speeches, from the Stockbridge In- June 30, 1775. dians, were laid before the Congress and read.

Resolved, That the committee for Indian affairs do prepare proper talks to the several tribes of Indians, for engaging the continuance of their friendship to us, and neutrality in our present unhappy dispute with Great Britain.

The Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the July 12 1775. committee on Indian affairs, and the same being gone through, was agreed to, as follows:

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That the securing and preserving the friendship of the Indian nations appears to be a subject of the utmost moment to these colonies.

That there is too much reason to apprehend that administration will spare no pains to excite the several nations of Indians to take up arms against these colonies; and that, it becomes us to be very active and vigilant in exerting every prudent means to strengthen and confirm the friendly disposition towards these colonies, which has long prevailed among the northern tribes, and which has been lately manifested by some of those to the southward.

As the Indians depend on the colonists for arms, ammunition, and clothing, which are become necessary to their subsistence, that commissioners be appointed by this Congress to superintend Indian affairs in behalf of those colonies.

That there be three departments of Indians, the northern, middle, and southern. The northern to extend so far south as to include the whole of the Indians known by the name of the

shall certify, at the trial, is just and proper; and the same
shall be taxed in the bill of cost.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of
State be required forthwith to furnish the agent of the Creek
Indians, and each of our Senators in Congress, with a copy of
this act.

MISSOURI.-1824.

An act to restrain intercourse with Indians within this state.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of
Missouri, That any citizen, or other person, who shall at-
tempt to reside in any town or hunting camp,
of any
Indian
tribe, within this state, as a trader, without a license from the
proper authorized agent of the United States, shall forfeit all
the merchandize offered for sale to the Indians, or found in
his possession; and shall, moreover, be fined, not exceeding
one hundred dollars, and imprisoned, not exceeding thirty
days.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if any such citizen,
or other person, shall induce any Indian to come into the
white settlements, for the purpose of trade, or shall purchase
or receive of any Indian, in the way of trade or barter, a
horse, a gun, or other article commonly used in hunting, any
instrument of husbandry, or cooking utensil, of the kind
usually obtained by the Indians in their intercourse with the
white people, or any article of clothing, excepting skins or
furs, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and
be imprisoned, not exceeding thirty days: Provided, That no
person shall incur the above penalties by trading with any of
those tribes of Indians, settled on the waters of the Merri-
mack, in Franklin county, or on the waters of the St. Fran-
cois river.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any person within this state, except by permission from the proper authorized agent of the United States, shall sell, exchange, furnish, or give, to any Indian, any spirituous, vinous, or other strong liquor, and shall be convicted thereof, he or she shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than thirty nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars, or shall be imprisoned, not exceeding thirty days, nor less than ten, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That all the offences created by this act, shall be tried and punished in the circuit courts of the counties in which the same may be perpetrated, respectively, upon the indictment or presentment of a grand jury;