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As the demands which we make appear to us to be just, we hope Sir, that you will grant them as promptly as possible, in order that we may be enabled to have our property valued, being almost ruined by the abandonment of it for the last three years.
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These being granted we shall feel constrained to continue, and even iricrease our prayer for your Excellency's health and prosperity.
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It was observed that the Petition was not signed by any body, and the two Frenchmen who brought it being called in declared that they were deputed by the French Inhabitants who had deserted their Lands at Chignecto, and produced a Paper Signed by about fourscore of the said Inhabitants authorizing them to Act for them here.
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The Council then took the said Petition under Consideration and came to a Resolution that the Oath to be tendered to the said Inhabitants should be in the following Words, viz.
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Je —— Promets et Jore sincèrement que Je serai fidèle, et que Je porterai une Loyauté parfaite vers Sa Majesté le Roi George Second.
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Ainsi que Dieu me Soit en aide.
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And that such of the said Inhabitants as shall, on or before the 20th day of November next, take and Subscribe the foregoing Oath, before George Scott Esq. One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace and Commandant at the Garrison of Chignecto, shall be admitted to Return to a peaceable and quiet Possession of their Lands at Chignecto, (Reserving the Land on which the Fort Stands and such a further Quantity round the same as shall be thought necessary for His Majesty's use) and that they shall have the free Exercise of their Religion, and a sufficient number of Priests allowed them for the Exercise thereof in the same manner as the rest of the French Inhabitants, and shall Enjoy all the privileges granted them by the treaty of Utrecht.
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P. T. HOPSON.
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JOHN DUPORT, Sec. Coun.
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Governor Lawrence to Board of Trade.
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HALIFAX, 5th December, 1753.
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My LORDS, —
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I take the earliest opportunity of doing myself the honour to write to your Lordships, tho' hardly anything worth your notice has happened since Governor Hopson's departure.
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