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which were Transcribed and Transmitted Home, by Order of his
Majesty in Council; however, I can assure you, that all possible
Care was taken in Revising them, that none might be Transmitted but
such as were and remained in Force: But if any Error should
possibly have happened, it will be easily corrected, by our making a
Provision for, and Ordering, a general Revisal of our Acts of As-
sembly, which, I believe, is by every Body thought highly expedient
and necessary, and which, I therefore, recommend to your Con-
sideration. In the mean Time, if you please, and will undertake to
defray the Expence thereof, I will write Home for a compleat List
of those, that, in obedience to his Majesty's Order, I got Transcribed
and Transmitted; or if that will afford you any Satisfaction, I will
shew any Members of your House what Lists, Minutes, or Papers,
relating to the Laws, I have in my Hands.
19.th April 1756 Hor.o Sharpe.
The House adjourns till Two of the Clock Afternoon.
Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
On reading his Excellency's Message of this Day; on Motion,
Ordered, That the Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in an
Address, in Answer thereto.
His Excellency communicated to M.r Speaker the following Mes-
sage, viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
The inclosed Letter and Copy of a French Officer's Instructions,
who was lately killed in Virginia, will inform you what a deplorable
Situation the back Inhabitants of these Provinces are in, and what
daring attempts we may reasonably expect the Enemy will be en-
couraged to make on us, if Measures are not speedily taken to pre-
vent and oppose them.
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Liber No. 48
April 19
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I must also beg Leave to remind you of the unhappy Condition
of many of the late Inhabitants of Nova-Scotia, whose humble Peti-
tion you have had some Time before you, and at the same Time that
I recommend to your Consideration a Copy of an Act of Assembly
that has been made in Pennsylvania for the Relief of as many of
those People as were imported into that Province, I would advise
you to prepare a Bill for preventing or deterring those that were sent
hither from leaving the Counties into which they have been, or may
be, distributed, and for punishing such of them as may presume
to travel to, or be discovered near, our Western Frontiers.
19.th April 1756 Hor.o Sharpe.
Which was read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
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