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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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transmitted from Nova Scotia received one intituled
An Act for continuing an Act
entitled an Act to prevent any private
Trade or Commerce with the
Indians
whereby the former Act is made perpetual,
We think it Our Duty humbly to propose
to your Majesty that both the said Acts
may receive your Majesty's Royal
Disallowance
Which is most humbly submitted
Sandys
Andrew Stone
John York
Whitehall
June 23d. 1761
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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