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to dispose of the increase of the French Inhabitants; and as these Inhabitants are not qualified to constitute a lower house, whereby to form a general Court or Assembly, all transactions with them are managed hitherto by messages and letters directed to sone of them, chosen in the several districts to act for the whole. I can therefore not inform your Lordships better, than by enclosing the extracts of letters and answers, of the means used to maintain his Majesty's rights and authority and prevent the growing disorder, as much as the situation we are in can allow of, till new instructions on that head can be obtained, which in all my representations for these two years and a half past, I have most humbly applied for. * * * *
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I am, &c.,
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P. MASCARENE.
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The Lords Commissioners
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of Trade, &c. &c. &c.
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(Order Book.)
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Collection of Orders Rules or Regulations in Relation to The Missionary Romish Priests in his Britannick Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia Extracted from the Council Books and Ordered to be here Recorded as by Minute of Council on Tuesday the first of March, 1742/3.
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Whereas The said Priests have of their own accord Resorted hither without acknowledging his Majesty's Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in and over this his said Province or paying the Least Respect or Obedience to this His Majesty's Government and have been Guilty of Sedition and Treachery as in Particular Charlemaine, Ignace &c. Preferring the authority by Which they pretend to be Sent, to that of his Britannick Majesty which they have so frequently dispised.
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Ordered that no Priest shall he Permitted into This his Majesty's Province But by and with the advice consent and approbation first asked and obtained from his Majesty's Goverment.
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That if at any time the Inhabitants Belonging to any of the Parishes shall want a Priest on account of a vacancy they shall be obliged first to Petition this his Majesty's Goverment for Leave to have one and Upon Such Leave obtain'd to apply where they Please for a Priest.
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That Upon the Priests comeing into this province By virtue
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