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of the Committee Adjourned Balt. 10 Mo 10 1803 At a Meeting of the committee on Indianconcerns the following report was agreed onto the Yearly Meeting The Meeting was last year informedthat the Western Indians in the neighbourhoodof fort Wayne were desirous of engaging in thecultivation of their lands, that they had requestedthe assistance of Friends and that the Presidentof the United States was authorised to prohibit theintroduction of spiritous liquors amongst them. Thisbeing the situation of the business, some of the committeewere impressed with a belief that it was necessary thatsomething should be done in it and accordinglyproceeded last spring for the use of these Indians 6setts of Plough Irons and their apprentenances, suchas levers &;c 10 leather collars, 10 Pair of harnis, 10 Pairof Iron Chains, 10 back bands 50 axes 6 Mattocks6 Iron wedges 6 Maul rings &; 50 Hoes which weresent in packages to Pittsburgh from whence they wereto be immediately conveyd to Fort Wayne &; deliv-ered as a present from the Society of Friends here