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him their Opinion and Advice, Whether, upon the Arrival of .the Acadian Prisoners at Boston, they should be discharged and set at liberty, or Whether they should be continued in Custody, to be disposed of as General Amherst should think proper: And for this purpose the Lieutenant Governor laid before the Council, the whole Correspondence between him and the General, relative to the Acadians in this Province, the same being contained in the following Letters, which were read and ordered to be Entered, vizt.,
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“ NEW YORK, 22d March 1761.
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“ SIR, —
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“ Your Dispatch of the 25th February reached my Hands last Night; I have nothing more at heart than the Advantage and Security of the Province of Nova Scotia; If the removal of the Acadians still remaining within the same could add to either, I should be the first to advise their Expulsion; but as under the new Circumstances of that valuable and flourishing Province, I do not see that it can have any thing to fear or apprehend from those Acadians, but on the contrary that great Advantages might be reapt in employing them properly: I must own I should incline towards letting them remain in the Province under proper Regulations & Restrictions.
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“ Another motive that induces me to lean on that side is, that their Transportation to England must be a heavy burthen on the Publick, and their Maintenance when there, a still greater; I would therefore recommend it to you, prior to taking any further Steps hereupon, to represent these, and any other Considerations that shall occur to you to His Majesty's Ministers, and to wait the King's pleasure thereupon.
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“ I am much obliged to You for Mr. Morris' Map of the Peninsula of your Province; it is not yet come to my Hands, Mr. Hancock having thought it too bulkey to send it by Post; but acquaints me that he forwarded it in a Vessel bound to this Port.
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I am with great regard
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Sir
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Your most obedient
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humble servant
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(Signed)
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JEFF. AMHERST."
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Mr. President Belcher.
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