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Act to prevent any private Trade or Commerce with the Indians and "An Act for Continuing an Act entitled an Act to revent any private Trade or Commerce with the Indians"

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This Act was transmitted to this Board in March last and as this Plan of Trade with the Indians could not [but?] appear extreamely exceptionable as being inconsistent with the Principles of Commerce and the Freedom which your Majesty's Subjects ought to enjoy therein and introductory of an heavy Expence to the Publick, the Act would for those Reasons have been immediately laid before your Majesty and that a Trade having been already opened, at some Expence, under the Authority of it, much loss and Confusion might arise from the immediate Repeal of it, it was thought at that Time more expedient to communicate the said Objections to your Maj[est]y's Lieut. Governor of the Province to direct him to put a speedy End to all Proceedings under that Act, and to mark out to him a better Plan for regulating the Indian Trade. But having among others lately transmitted

Date: 1760

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 19

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