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To the Honorable, the Representatives of the Province of Nova Scotia, in General Assembly convened.

The Petition of the undersigned, James Paul, a chief of the Micmac Indians, and others, humbly showeth
That your Petitiners have seen with greef [grief] the gradual extinction of our game, and our former means of subsistance, by the clearing up of the country by the white people, while no adequate means of support have been supplied to us in return. In the United States and Canada provision has been made by the government for educating and civilizing the Indians, and in those countries they are rapidly adopting the habits, and practicing the trades and employments of the whites, while the condition of the Micmacs of this country is becoming worse and worse every