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“The said committees shall be appointed by the Magistrates, who shall likewise fill up all vacancies, and the said Committees shall within three days after due notice to them given, make an Alphabetical list of such persons resident within their respective Wards from eighteen years of age and upwards (not being House Servants, Daily Laborers, or People of Color) as they may conceive to be proper persons for watching and paroling or capable by their circumstances to find substitutes. (Clergymen only excepted.)”

Halifax (N.S.). Rules And Regulations for the Establishment And Government of a Watch And Patrol In the Town of Halifax. Halifax [N.S.]: Printed by Edmund Ward …, 1818. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t22c0159r

“A human being as he comes originally from the hand of nature, is everywhere the same.”

“…The Planter was now struck with shame, and confusion, when he recognized, in his kind protector the [indigenous person] whom he so harshly treated.

He confessed that he knew him, and was full of excuses for his brutal behavior; to which the [indigenous person] only replied; when you see poor [Mi’kmaq] fainting for a cup of cold water, don’t say again, get you gone you [indigenous] dog.

The [indigenous person] then wished him well on his journey, and left him.” It is not difficult to say which of these two had the best claim to the name of Christian.”

Bromley, Walter. Mr. Bromley’s Second Address, On the Deplorable State of the Indians: Delivered In the “Royal Acadian School,” At Halifax, In Nova Scotia, March 8, 1814. [Halifax, N.S.?]: Printed at the Recorder Office, 1814. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t7hq4hz8r

In Mr. Bromley’s Appeal on behalf of the [Mi’kmaq], printed in Nova Scotia, in 1820 p.24 he says:—

“One of the chiefs, who took up his abode with me a few weeks ago, appeared much agitated while he related the circumstance of the white people having obtained a grant of the burying-ground of his ancestors, whose bones they had lately ploughed up; and this to an [indigenous person] is a species of sacrilege which he never can forgive. I am also acquainted with a particular part of the province of Nova Scotia, where a most ancient burying-ground of the [Mi’kmaq] is now in the possession of the white people; who, however, out of courtesy, still allow them to bury their dead there.” Mr. Bromley adds, “While reading over this part of my manuscript to a friend, a “native of this country, he assured me” that the white people had not only dispossessed them of their land, but that they had also driven them from their fishing-ground; and he related the following anecdote, as he was an eye-witness to the circumstance, which took place last autumn;— “In Chedebucto Bay, contiguous to Fox Island, in the eastern part of Nova Scotia, where the [Mi’kmaq] have been in the constant habit of fishing, and supplying the white fishermen with their manufactures, peltry, &c. for several years, they have been expelled in the most brutal manner from that fishing ground by the white people, who entered their camps, defiled their women, abused and beat the men, and, in fact, conducted themselves in such a manner as to prevent the possibility of their remaining any longer. My friend assures me, that he has purchased from those [Mi’kmaq], during his visits to that place, more than 300 barrels of mackerel. He described them as strictly honest, sober, and intelligent.”

“It is earnestly to be hoped, that general principle of JUSTICE will be acted upon towards them in future.”

Bromley, Walter. An Account of the Aborigines of Nova Scotia Called the Micmac Indians. [London?: s.n.], 1822. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t74t7r08v

The timing of this address in favor of the “rights” of those who considered Nova Scotia their proprietary colony, in 1848, immediately after Nova Scotia had successfully won a measure of self government thanks to the efforts of Joseph Howe and others, says so much, and perhaps points to part of the impetus behind the obstinacy of the British Crown in as it concerns “confederation”.

“As regards justice, the crown charters, of combined justice, policy, and humanity. acts of parliament, and other legal instruments founded upon (upwards of two hundred in number,) demonstrate, beyond all doubt or cavil, that the rights and privileges which they vest in the Order are still valid, subsisting, and effectual. The policy of restoring to activity and usefulness such a great monarchical institute as the Baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia, would be a means of rapidly settling, with a loyal and attached landocracy, yeomanry, and peasantry (the main constituent elements of British society,) that portion of our vast trans-atlantic empire which, from geographical position, mineral resources, and water facilities, is, and must ever be, the arx et domicilium of British power, industry, and enterprise, in the western hemisphere, is too self-apparent to require comment.”

“The charters, acts, and other documents referred to in the compilation on the Nova Scotia Question – a copy of which publication is placed herewith in the hands of the Colonial Minister constitute a complete chain of historical and legal evidence in support of the claim of right preferred by the Baronets. With such indefeasible grounds to proceed upon, and seeing that questions connected with subsistence and population will successively arise to embarrass the nation, the Deputation deem it to be impossible that a wise and paternal government, actuated by due fidelity to the Crown, and love for the people, will fail to recognise the duty of restoring the rights in Nova Scotia of the Scottish Baronetage, and making the Older again subservient for the great and paramount ends for which it was devised by the wisdom and patriotism of former sovereigns, privy councils, and parliaments.

The duty of restoring the public functions and utility of the Scottish Baronetage, as a body constituted for ever to advance ‘the opulence, prosperity, and peace’ of Scotland, by and through the right colonization and settlement of Nova Scotia, is one alike onerous upon its members and the Crown. Corruption or non- utility in a great monarchical institute is, under any circumstances, a state evil of enormous magnitude one which reflects equally upon the reigning Sovereign, as the representative of the Royal founder, and upon those whose titles and prerogatives have descended upon them as retaining fees for personal exertions. When James I. annexed Nova Scotia to his ancient kingdom, ‘that its use might arise to the benefit of that kingdom,’ and projected the erection of the Baronetage to superintend its plantation, he declared he would make the business a ‘Royal work of his own.’ And his last injunction to the Privy council of Scotland, dated from his death-bed, on the 23rd of March, 1625, was, ‘Persevere for the furtherance of this Royal work that it may be brought to a full perfection because it is to be the foundation of so great a work, both for the good of the kingdom in general, and for the particular interest of every Baronet’ Whilst, then, in compliance with that Royal commandment, and in consideration of the necessities now pressing upon all ranks and classes of the subject in Scotland, the Baronets are bound in honour and conscience to revive the uses of their Order, our gracious Queen, her ministers and government, are no less bound in honour and conscience to facilitate the restoration of the Baronetage, and to do whatever is needful to render it again the state organ of utility, in that noble but neglected domain of social happiness and national aggrandisement, which its Royal institutor intended it hereditarily to be.”

Committee of the Baronets of Scotland and Nova Scotia for Nova Scotia Rights. “Colonization : Nova Scotia Baronet rights : copy of the memorandum and protest placed in Earl Grey’s hands by a deputation on the 2nd of June, 1848, and of the address of the Hon. Sir Richard Broun, Bart., delivered before the Committee of the Baronets of Scotland and Nova Scotia for Nova Scotia Rights, on the 16th of October, 1848.” [London : s.n., 1848?] (London : Blackburn and Burt) https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.4841