fo. 289.
Read the following letters and papers received from the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, viz.
Letter from Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, dated 10th April, 1761, acknowledging the receipt of the Board’s letter of the 31st of October, 1760, inclosing the Order of the Lords of the Council, notifying the death of his late Majesty, and for proclaiming the King, etc.; giving an account of the proceedings respecting the new settlements and of the expences necessarily incurred, etc. and inclosing,
Proclamation for proclaiming his present Majesty.
Return of elections as made by the Provost Marshall.
The present state of the new settlements in Nova Scotia.
fo. 290.
Bills of exchange drawn by the Honourable Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, on the agent for the Province of Nova Scotia.
Treasury book of vouchers for money paid, from 30th September, 1760, to January, 1761.
Records of his Majesty’s Council, between the 22nd April, 1760, and 12th November following.
Minutes of Council, between the 12th of November, 1760, and the 1st of April, 1761.
Minutes of the proceedings of his Majesty’s Council in General Assembly, from 8th September, 1760, to the 27th of the same month.
Votes of the House of Assembly from the 4th of December, 1759, to the 8th of September following.
fo. 291.
Letter from Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to the Board, dated 14th April, 1761, informing them that numbers of Acadians still remain in the distant parts of the province, who have not made their submission, and inclosing,
A minute of the Council of the 14th April, 1761, containing their opinion how far it may be adviseable to dispose of the said Acadians.
Letter from Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to the Board, dated 16th April, 1761, respecting the proposals of contractors for furnishing the commissary with several commodities necessary for the Indian trade, and inclosing,
fo. 292.
Copy of the proposals offered to Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, by Mr. Alexander Grant, for a contract to furnish the supplies for the Indian trade.
Do. by Mr. Francklin and Mr. Woodmass.
Copy of the report of the committee appointed for considering the proposals made by Messrs. Grant, Francklin and Woodmass.
Copy of Mr. Grant’s contract, and also of his bond.
Letter from Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to the Board, dated 17th April, 1761, inclosing,
Copy of a letter from him to His Excellency, General Amherst, dated 15th April, 1761, respecting the hostile designs of the numerous body of Acadians at Restigouch and the neighbouring parts.
fo. 293.
Ordered, that copies be made of such of the abovementioned letters and papers, as relate to the dangers to which the province is exposed from the hostile intentions of the Acadians collected together in different parts of it, to be laid before his Majesty, and that the draught of a letter to Mr. Secretary Pitt thereupon be prepared.
Ordered, that the draught of a letter to Mr. Belcher in answer to those received from him, be prepared.
fo. 294.
Wednesday, June 17.
Present:—Lord Sandys, Mr. Stone, Mr. Jenyns, Mr. Yorke.
The draught of a letter to Mr. Secretary Pitt, inclosing copies of several letters and papers received from the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, respecting the danger to which the province is exposed from numbers of Acadians collected together in different parts of it, having been prepared pursuant to order, was agreed to and ordered to be transcribed.
fo. 295.
Their lordships took into consideration the state of his Majesty’s Council in Nova Scotia, and ordered the draught of a representation to his Majesty to be prepared, proposing that Alexander Grant, Edmund Crawley, Henry Newton and Michael Francklyn, may be appointed to supply the vacancys in the said Council.
fo. 296.
The Secretary laid before the Board two letters which he had received from Captain Taggart, late master of the Snow Halifax, one of the vessels belonging to the Province of Nova Scotia, with an account of the expences he had been at in bringing some publick dispatches from Cork to London, returning to Cork to dispose of the said vessell and afterwards coming back to London.
Ordered, that the said account be delivered to the agent for the Settlement, to the end that the amount thereof may be inserted in the next application, which he shall make to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, on account of expences incurred for the service of that province.
fo. 297.
Friday, June 19.
Present:—Lord Sandys, Mr. Stone, Mr. Yorke.
The draught of a letter to Mr. Secretary Pitt, inclosing copys of several letters and papers received from the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, respecting the danger to which that province is exposed from numbers of Acadians collected together in different parts of it, having been transcribed pursuant to order, was signed.
Bahamas.
fo. 298.
The draught of a representation to his Majesty, with draughts of general instructions and of those relating to the observance of the laws of trade, for the Governor of the Bahama Islands, having been prepared pursuant to order, was approved and ordered to be transcribed; as were also draughts of a representation to his Majesty, recommending four persons to be appointed of the Council of Nova Scotia; and of a letter to the Lieutenant Governor of that province, in answer to several received from him.
fo. 299.
Their lordships then took into consideration twenty Acts, passed in the Province of Nova Scotia in September, 1760, together with Sir Matthew Lamb’s report thereupon, and the said Acts and report were read; and it appearing, that by one of these laws, the Act passed in 1759, for regulating the Indian trade, which was enacted to continue for two years, was made perpetual, their lordships were of opinion, that although the objections stated to the Act in the Board’s letters to Mr. Belcher of the 3rd of March and 21st of April, were not of such a nature, as to make it expedient to propose the repeal of it, circumstanced as it stood in point of duration; yet, being now made to continue without any limitation of time, it was proper to be repealed, being, in their lordships’ judgment, an improper restriction upon trade, and a measure introductive of unreasonable expences to the publick; it was therefore ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty should be prepared, proposing that it may be repealed, as also the Act by which it is perpetuated. It was further ordered, that the draught of a representation to his Majesty should be prepared, proposing the repeal of another Act passed in the last session of Assembly, in addition to the Act to enable Proprietors to divide the lands held in common and undivided, which last mentioned Act had been reported for repeal on the 21st of April last.
fo. 301.
The draught of a representation to his Majesty, with draughts of general instructions, and of those relating to the observance of the laws of trade, for the Governor of the Bahama Islands, having been transcribed pursuant to order, was signed; as was also a representation to his Majesty, recommending four persons to be appointed of the Council of Nova Scotia; and a letter to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, in answer to several received from him.
The draughts of representations to his Majesty, proposing the repeal of three Acts passed in Nova Scotia, mentioned in the minutes of Friday last, having been prepared pursuant to order, were approved, transcribed and signed; as was also a representation to his Majesty, proposing the repeal of the Act passed in the Province of Georgia in 1759, for confirming the titles of several inhabitants to their lands.
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