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To the Honourable Benjamin Green Esq.
Commander in Chief of his Majesty's province of Nova Scotia &c &c &c
The Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Township of Falmouth in King's County
Humbly Sheweth
That when your memorialists became settlers in this province they were assured by the late Governor Lawrence that the Government was Constituted like those of the neighbouring Colonies and they expected to be indulged in all such privileges as His Majesty's Subjects in other Colonies have been constantly governed with. But to their great surprise they perceive an Advertisement in the Halifax Gazette relating to the Registry of Deeds wherein it is asserted that inconveniences have arisen from the registering in this part of the province. If it is meant that the people have suffered any inconveniences we beg leave to say that some enemy to the well being of the Province must have invented such a story with a sinister view is the manifest determent of those towns already reduced to a very few settlers.
We therefore beg leave to say before your Honour a few of the many inconveniences that will attend the designed innovation with regard to the registering of Deeds &c at Halifax.
One of the witnesses to the Deed &c must go to Halifax to prove the Deed, the difficulty and uncertainty of Conveyances from the Country for matters of such importance of Deeds &c and getting them back again unless the person to whom it belongs goes himself, and if he does it will be attended with as much cost as the small piece of land he purchased
The scarcity of money in this Country renders it impossible for many even to send their deeds to Halifax, if they can have a safe Conveyance, and if they should send them