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George R. L. S. Additional Instruction for our trusty and well Beloved Robert Monckton Esq, our Captain General and Governor in Chief of our Province of New York, and the Territories depending thereon in North America; and in his Absence to our Lieut Governor or Commander in Chief of said Province for the Time being.  Given at our Court at St James's the ninth Day of December 1761 in the Second Year of our Reign.  Whereas the Peace and Security of our Colonies and Plantations upon the Continent of North America, does greatly depend upon the Amity and Alliance of the Several Nations, or Tribes of Indians, bordering upon the said Colonies, and upon a just, and faithful Observance of those Treaties and Compacts, which have been heretofore solemnly entered into with the said Indians, by our Royal Predecessors, Kings and Queens of this Realm, And Whereas, notwithstanding the repeated Instructions which have been from Time to Time given by our late Royal Grandfather to the Governors of our several Colonies upon this Head, the said Indians have made and do still continue to make great complaints, that Settlements have been made, and Possession taken of Lands, the Property of which, they have by Treaties reserved to themselves, by Persons claiming the said Lands under Pretence of Deeds of Sale, and Conveyance, illegally, fraudulently, and surreptitiously obtained of the said Indians; and whereas it has likewise been represented unto us, that some of our Governors, or other chief Officers of our said Colonies, regardless of the Duty they owe to use, and of the Welfare and Security of our Colonlies, have countenanced such unjust Claims and Pretentions, by passing Grants of the Lands so pretended, to have been purchased of the Indians.  We therefore taking this Matter into our Royal Consideration, as also the fatal Effects, which would attend a Discontent amonst the Indians, in the present Situation of Affairs, and being determined upon all Occasions