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Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768

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be arrested, they would do well to offer it as soon as possible, by their deputies. You may make this known to them. I send you enclosed a proclamation passed by the council; also a resolution passed by the same with regard to trade, which you will have read in public in order that everyone shall comply with it. It is absolutely necessary for you, in the present condition of affairs, to inform me frequently of the state of your departments, as too long a delay might prove hurtful to you. There are comers and goers enough; but should no opportunity of that kind present itself, you might join with the other departments and send an express. My feelings towards you are always the same; and so long as you behave with fidelity towards the King of Great Britain our lawful sovereign, and with obedience to his government, you will always have in me.

Gentlemen

a good friend and servant

P. MASCARENE.

To the deputies of Mines, Piziquid and the river Canard.

Governor Mascarene to deputies of Chicanecto.

(Letter Book.)

(Translated from the Franch.)

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL Oct. 26. 1744.

GENTLEMEN, —

I send you these lines to inform you that I am in a position to execute what I have so often said would happen to you, if you failed in the allegiance which you owe to his Britannic Majesty. If you wish therefore to avoid the danger which threatens you, do as the other departments have done — send your deputies, give an account of your conduct, and show the submission to which your oath of allegiance to the government of the King of Great Britain binds you. In that case you shall still have in me a friend and servant.

P. MASCARENE.

The deputies of Chicanecto.