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ACADIAN FRENCH. 69

      Which being read were approved of then he laid before the Board some directions mentioned in said instructions to be communicated to the Deputies of Mines and of these other adjacent places of the Bay to be published to the inhabitants there; as also a duplicate of the same to be published to such of the inhabitants of this river as had not as yet taken the Oaths to His Majesty.  
      Which being likewise read were also approved of.  
      Then he acquainted the Board that that old mischievous incendiary Gaulin had represented to him that he could not procure the bail required by the Board on Tuesday, the 11th instant; but that whereas he had at last come to make his submission, and to beg pardon for all past faults, promising for the future to behave himself with more respect and obedience to this His Majesty's Government, than ever he had done heretofore, and upon no acconnt whatsoever to intermeddle in the Government's affairs, but by his doctrine to instil if possible the principles of obedience and loyalty both into the Indians and French inhabitants; - wherefore and finding that the inhabitants were also desirous to have him set at liberty, as doubtless were the Indians, he had therefore in some measure altered his resolution of sending him to Britain, least at this juncture it might not only impede the inhabitants from taking the Oaths but perhaps also create some misunderstandings amongst both them and the Indians, to the disturbance of our present peace and quietness; which he referred to the consideration of the Board and desired their advice whether, at present, it would not be more proper considering the present state of affairs so far to humour the inhabitants, which would be, no doubt, also pleasing to the Indians to set him at liberty, and to trust him once more by giving him, till further orders, the Cure of Mines.



     
 

Extract from Letter of Govr. Armstrong to Secretary of State.
 

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL      
 
24th Novr., 1726.      
 
      No. 3* enclosed is the Oaths administered with the advice of His Majesty's Council to the Inhabitants of the River Annapolis Royal who could never be prevailed upon to take it before. The next Spring I shall send to the several other


    * No copy of this qualified Oath is to be found among the papers. It did not receive the approval of the Secretary of State.
 



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