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ACADIAN FRENCH. 203


Priests sufficient for the free Exercise of their Religion, provided the said Priests complied with the Terms His Excellency is Ordered by His Majesty to Exact from them, in the 71st Article of his Instructions, and that in that case the Petition be granted.
 
P.T. HOPSON.      
 

JNO. DUPORT, Sec. Conc.



     
 
      At a council holden at the Governor's house in Halifax on thursday the 27th September, 1753.  

PRESENT
 


His Excellency the Governor.
 

      The Honbles.  
      Charles Lawrence  
      Benj. Green  
      Willm. Steele  
      John Collier  
      Wm. Cotterell  
      Robt. Monckton  
      His Excellency communicated to the Council the following petition:  

(Translated from the French.)
 

To His Excellency PEREGRINE THOMAS HOPSON, Esq.,      
 
Captain General, Governor and commander in Chief of Nova Scotia or Acadie, Vice Admiral and Colonel of a regiment of infantry in the service of His Britannic Majesty.      
 

SIR, —
 
      We the inhabitants formerly settled near Megoguich, beg to inform you that the reason which caused us to leave our property, was the new oath which his Excellency Mr. Cornwallis wished to exact from us, desiring to break and revoke the one granted to us on the 11th of October 1727 by Mr. Robert Wroth, ensign and adjutant of the troops of the king of England, in the name of his said Majesty King George the Second, and by the honorable Lawrence Armstrong Esqr. His lieutenant, & commander in chief of this province. Having learned since our departure, that if we were willing to return, we should have the same favours that were granted to us formerly, viz. — the said 11th day of October 1727.  



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