Council here present And it is hereby further directed by & with the advice of those of his Ma Dellius towards the defraying that the sume of One Hundred pounds be lodged in the hands of the necessary charges of these persons thus employed for Ms Ma'''es service of which he is hereby obliged to give a particular account to me and for his Mal y es Council at New Yorke or to the Governour & Council for the time being. Given under my hand and scale at Albany the tenth day of August in the eighth year of his Mal y es reigne Anno Domini 1696. Ben Fletcher Signed David Jamison CI. Concilij.

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Att a Council held at his Matyes ffort in New Yorke the 18 th of August 1696 Present His Excell Benjamin Fletcher &c. :

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Resolved the Indians of the two Nations of Onnondage and Oneyde whose Corn is destroyed by the enemy be supplyed the ensuing winter at the charge of this Government.

Ordered no Indian Corne be brought down the river from Albany Vlster and Dutchesse Countyes untill the Indians be supplyed this ensueing winter and that the Commissioners appointed to treate with the Indians in his Excell

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absence do purchase soe much corne as is necessary for them.

COUNT FRONTENAC's EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ONONDAGAS.

LETTER FROM COLL. FLETCHER TO Mr. BLAITHWAYTE, DATED THE 18th SEPT R 1696. [