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The Pontiac Manuscript
Monday, July 18. The gates of the fort had been, up to this day, continually closed for the safety of the fort and from fear of surprise by the Indians, which caused a great deal of trouble to the officers, who had to have them opened for those who demanded it as well as to those who wanted to pass and who often feared to be refused or turned back by the officers, and in order to remove all difficulties which had ever bothered him, the commander ordered that the gate facing the river should be open for the use of the public from 9 o'clock A. M. to 6 o'clock p. m., with two sentinels on each side, who had orders not to allow any Frenchmen to go out of the fort without his permission, but to give admission to all who wanted to come in through the gate except the Indians, who, in truth, never came nearer than fifteen [arpents], except with a great deal of caution.
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