Last Week the Treaty of Peace and Friendship was concluded between this Government and the Chibenacadie Tribe of [Mi’kmaq], inhabiting the Eastern Coasts of this province.
And this Day his Excellency the Governour was pleased, with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty’s Council, to issue a Proclamation strictly forbidding any Acts of Hostility to be committed against any of the said Tribe of [Mi’kmaq], by any of his Majesty’s Subjects within the Province, upon their Peril.
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