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Coloured Settlements in Nova Scotia, —whose claims your Petitioner incidentally but respectfully now introduces to the notice of your Honorable Assembly.

That as an instance of these claims your Petitioner will mention only the case of Port La Tour; from which place two or three coloured persons happened to be in Halifax in the course of last year, and having visited the African School here, they were (on witnessing the privileges which their more fortunate brethren were enjoying) so impressed 'with the advantages of knowledge, that they became actually importunate for the establishment of a similar Institution in their own neighbourhood.

That they instantly on their return to Port LaTour represented to the rest of the coloured people there the importance of Education, and by a laudable union of exertion a school-house was built, and School was opened, in perfecting which your Petitioner would have gladly assisted, if there had been at his disposal any pecuniary resources available for so desirable an object.

That your Petitioner being aware of the likelihood that the general system of Education, throughout the Province, will be subjected to revision under the wisdom of your Honorable Assembly, ventures to express his earnest hope that no alteration or modification of the existing principle will deprive the African School in Halifax of the full amount of that support, which the liberality of your Honorable Assembly has hitherto bestowed upon it, and to which the peculiar condition of the People of Colour justly entitles it.