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Appendix

Regulations for the Better Carrying on the Trade
with the Indian Tribes in the Southern District *
1. No trader shall employ any person as clerk, packhorseman, or factor, in
his service, before an agreement be first entered into between them, specify-
ing the time and conditions of service, and having his or their names inserted
or endorsed on the back of the license, so that the principal trader shall be
rendered responsible for, and subjected to, the penalties which may be in-
curred by his or their bad conduct.

( Stuart's comment: It is a practice with the traders to entice away each
other's servants, when on the point of carrying their peltry to market which
suggested the two following articles.)

2. No trader, while in any Indian nation, shall employ in his service any
clerk, packhorseman, or factor, who may have formerly been engaged with
any other trader, until the time of service stipulated by his said agreement be
expired, or a regular discharge from such former master shall first have been
had and produced to the person hiring such servant, showing that the for-
mer contract had been dissolved by mutual consent, or else till said servant
shall have produced a certificate from the commissary showing that the
former contract had been dissolved for good and sufficient reasons, shown
before him the said commissary.
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* The Creek merchants and traders agreed to these regulations at the Augusta Conference of
1767. On the copy sent to London, Stuart added handwritten explanatory comments, which are
indicated above in parentheses. The original document is found in Stuart's letter to Shelburne,
April 1, 1767, Colonial Office, Class 5/68, fo. 110, Great Britain Public Record Office. Another
printed version of these regulations appears in Colonial Office, Class 5/68, fo. 144. Punctuation
and spelling have been modernized here. The West Florida traders' regulations, which are similar
to the above, can be found in John R. Alden, John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier,
pp. 341.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Deerskins & Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815. Contributors: Kathryn E. Holland Braund - author. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press. Place of Publication: Lincoln, NE. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: 189.
    
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