The price of Cordwood again Recommended to the Consideration of the Board.
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The Secretary Aquainted the Board that His Honr being again Informed of the great Abuses & Exorbitant prices demanded by the ffrench Inhabitants for fire wood, by which they Seemed to have no other views at this time than to distress his Majestys Garrison, Every Officer & the English Inhabitants in the place, And that as his Majesty hath an undoubted right to the woods & they only to the Herbage & Vesturage of the Lands And Entitled only to the benefit of Such Woods as they may have immediate Occasion for their own proper use & buildings, He therefore desired, That as they the Inhabitants had Obstinately through Contempt refused taking Patents for their said lands in his Majestys Name; His Honr therefore Desired the Gentlemen of the Board Seriously to Consider their Insolence, & the present Circumstances of his Majestys Garrison which could not possibly Subsist without wood; And for that purpose the
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