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ceipts and expenditure of the committee, by which it appeared that there remained a balance in the hands of the treasurer, of about 2000l. currency; a part of which sum was ordered to be handed to the Delaware tribe of Indians, whose forefathers had shown great kindness to Friends, on their first landing in this country; the recollection of which had great weight on Friends' minds at this time, in the distribution of this money. Thus the good deeds of the forefathers of this tribe of Indians, were visited upon their children's children, some of whom stood in great need of the assistance now afforded, and to whom it would be very useful in providing husbandry utensils, &;c. &;c.; I observed that friends were generally careful not to hand their presents in money; but preferred sending them various kinds of tools both for husbandry and carpenters' work; and they would also, on some occasions, hire a workman to put them in a way of using their tools. After the close of this sitting, a friend informed me that he had a prospect of removing to the Ohio, and shewed me two certificates of lands he had purchased in that State, said to be of excel- lent quality, for which he engaged to give 11s. 3d. per acre, to be paid by instalments; at two, three, and four years. The number of friends who have emigrated into that State, in the course of the last few years, is said to exceed 800 families; and their