27th of the month friends met agreeable to adjournment
The committee on the conern, relative to the Indian Natives,
produced a
report in writing, it obtain'd the deliberate attention of the
Meeting, and
is satisfactory, - by this report it appears, that the prospect
of friends
being useful to those people, is encourageing, as by the informa
-tion of
two friends of the committee, that have made a visit to several
of the
tribes, since last year, they appear, progressing in the knowledge
of
agriculture, and a disposition ot civilisation; the committees conti
-nued
attention to the subject, is requested, and they encouraged to
step
forward, in a way, that may appear most likely to answer the
views of this
Meeting, in promoting the welfare of that people
In the attention given to this concern, the meeting was led to
consider,
that in friends endeavouring to be useful to them, some necessa-
ry
expenses are attendant; and a prospect was open'd and united with
of
recommending to the Quarterly Meetings, the opening subscriptions to
raise
a fund for the promotion of so desireable a purpose, and it is
requested,
that the Money raised by voluntary contributions, in the
Quarters, be by
them placed in the hands of the Treasurer to the Com-
-mittee, and the
amount reported next year