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a Sloop to cruize upon the Eastern Coast, and in the Bay of Vert. *   *   *   *   *   *

I am &c.      

L. ARMSTRONG.



     




Govr. Armstrong to Lords of Trade.

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL,      

16 November 1731      


My LORDS, —

      The aforegoing being a Duplicate of my letter to your Lordships the 5th of October last, I hope your Lordships will favor me with such directions as the facts therein related requires, for otherways, it will be a difficult matter to bring those people, to any reasonable terms of obedience to His Majesty's Government, or even to any manner of good order and decency amongst themselves; for tho' they are a litigious sort of people, and so ill natured to one another, as daily to encroach upon their neighbours properties, which occasions continual complaints, and which were partly the cause of some of the Paragraphs of my afore recited letter, yet they all unanimously agree in opposing every order of Government, tho' never so conducive to. their own interest, as I presume your Lordships will observe by their answer to the instrument I issued, by the advice of the Council, on Wednesday the 13th of October last, all which I have, by this opportnnity, thought proper to transmit for your Lordships' further information, .and advice thereon — being with much respect &c.

I am &c. &c.      

L. ARMSTRONG.      


To the Right Honble.

      the Lords Commrs. of

      Trade & Plantations.



     




Extract from a Letter of Governor Armstrong to Lords of Trade, dated

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL,      

10th June, 1732.      

      Without some Statutes this Province can never be rightly settled; Especialiy seeing the French here upon every frivolous dispute, plead the laws of Paris, and from that pretended authority contemn all the orders of the Go-



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