_For the Encouragement of_ Voluntiers _to prosecute the_ WAR _against
the_ St. John's _and_ Cape Sable's _Indians_.
Whereas the Indians of the _Cape-Sable's_ and St. _John's_ Tribes have
by their Violation of their solemn Treaties with His Majesty's
Governours, and their open Hostilities committed against His Majesty's
Subjects of this Province and the Province of _Nova-Scotia_, obliged
me, with the unanimous Advice of His Majesty's Council, to declare war
against them; In Consequence of which the General Assembly of this
Province have "_Voted_, That there be granted, to be paid out of the
publick Treasury, to any Company, Party, or Person singly, of His
Majesty's Subjects, belonging to and residing within this Province,
who shall voluntarily, and at their own proper Cost and Charge, go out
and kill a male Indian of the Age of Twelve Years or upwards, of the
Tribe of St. _Johns_ or _Cape-Sables_, after the _Twenty-sixth_ Day of
_October_ last past, and before the last Day of _June Anno Domini_,
One Thousand seven Hundred and forty-five (or for such Part of that
Term as the War shall continue), in any place to the Eastward of a
Line, to be fixed by the Governour and His Majesty's Council of this
Province, somewhere to the Eastward of _Penobscot_, and produce his
Scalp in Evidence of his Death, the Sum of _one Hundred Pounds_ in
Bills of Credit of this Province of the new Tenor, and the Sum of _one
Hundred & Five Pounds_ in said Bills for any Male of the like Age who
shall be taken Captive, and delivered to the Order of the
Captain-General, to be at the Disposal and for the Use of the
Government; and the Sum of _Fifty Pounds_, in said Bills, for women;
and the like Sum for Children under the Age of Twelve Years killed in
Fight; and _Fifty-five Pounds_ for such of them as shall be taken
Prisoners, together with the Plunder: _Provided_ no Payment be made as
aforesaid for killing or taking Captive any of the said Indians, until
Proof thereof be made to the Acceptance of the Governour and Council;"
AND _whereas_, since the passing of the said Vote of the General
Assembly, I have with the Advice of His Majesty's Council determined,
That the Line above mentioned, to the Eastward of which the said
Indians may be slain and taken Prisoners, shall begin on the Sea-Shore
at Three Leagues Distance from Eastermost Part of the Mouth of
_Passamaquoddy_ River, and from thence to run North into the Country
thro' the Province of _Nova-Scotia_, to the River of _St. Lawrence_;
=I have therefore thought fit, with the Advice of His Majesty's
Council, to issue this Proclamation for giving public notice of the
Encouragement granted by the General Court of all Persons who may be
disposed to serve their King and Country in the Prosecution of the War
against the said Cape-Sable's and St. John's Tribes, in the manner
above-mentioned, upon their own charge; as also to give Notice to the
several Tribes of the Eastern Indians, who are still in Amity with us,
of the Boundary-Line aforesaid; assuring them that this Government
have determined to treat as Enemies all such Indians as live beyond
the said Line.=
Given at the Council Chamber in _Boston_, on Friday the Second Day
of _November_, 1744. In the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of GOD of
_Great-Britain_, _France_ and _Ireland_, KING, Defender of the
Faith, &c.