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unable to hold any communication with them collectively; under this disappointment they made their report to the Committee on Indian Affairs. During the next Baltimore Yearly Meeting, the Indian Committee suggested, (in a report they made to that body, in which they alluded to the inability of their late mission to obtain an interview with the tribes whose improvement and preservation they desired,) that if a notice of the intention of Friends was intimated to the Indians in a suitable manner, and they were re-quested to fix a time and place of meeting, a satisfactory conference might be obtained; as the disposition of such of them as they had had an opportunity of conversing with appeared fa-vorable. The report was dated 10th mo. 13th, 1796, and signed by EVAN THOMAS, JOHN WILSON. On the 15th of 10th month, 1796, the Com-mittee on Indian Affairs was officially informed that the Yearly Meeting had made an addition to that Committee, by the appointment of Reese Cadwallader, Thomas Farquhar, Joel Wright,James Mendenhall, George Ellicott, and James M'Grew. At the next meeting Joel Wright was ap-pointed Clerk of the Committee, and no busi-ness presenting, adjourned.