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Copy July 1761

To the King's most Excellent Majesty
May it please Your Majesty

We have had under Our Consideration an Act passed in your Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia in March 1760 entitled

An Act to prevent any private Trade or Commerce with the Indians, and we beg leave humbly to represent to your Majesty thereupon,

That by this Act all private Traders in the Province, however unexceptionable or substantial are excluded from the Advantages of the Indian Trade, which it is the Object of this Act to concert into a Monopoly, to be carried on with the publick Money, by such Persons, as shall be licensed by the Governor who is empowered to grant or withhold such Licence by no other Rule than his Discretion.
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