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     measures to be beneficial had long passed: 
     
     whatever had originally been the motives 
     
     ofthe Government he could not say, but, 
     
     it was now evident from the tenor of the 
     
     espalCl’l before them, that this very fa- 
     
     vorite measure could, it'carried into effect, 
     
     never add to the comforts or advantages 
     
     ofthe laboring classes, as it was evident 
     
     His Majesty’s Government did not now in— 
     
     mum grams, whilst its direct tendency 
     
     must he, to burden us with the payment of 
     
     ourCivil List, (which His Ma'esty was 
     
     heretofore graciously pleased to defray for 
     
     us", and thereby place on the tenants and 
     
     holdsrs oflantl, taxes which it on all han:ls 
     
     was admitted under present circumstances 
     
     they were not able to pay ; could a mode 
     
     be devised, by which the absent pr0prie- 
     
     tors could be taxed ; it should have his full 
     
     support. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Willock expressed his sunprise that 
     
     he should find the llon.Mernber for George 
     
     Town, the constant fri 'nd of proprietors, 
     
     and was at a. loss to reconcile this with o- 
     
     ther parts of his conduct : for himself, he 
     
     would support the Resolutions to their full 
     
     extent. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Owen also supported the resolutions, 
     
     and said that it was m0st important that 
     
     the address to be founded on them to his 
     
     Majesty, should state in the strongest man— 
     
     ner the disadvantages this Colony has so 
     
     long labored under, from the absence (a- 
     
     mong other things,) of Courts, similar to 
     
     those existing in the other ('olonies. He 
     
     also moved an addition to the Eighth Re- 
     
     solution, declaratory of the bad state of 
     
     the tenantry, from the circumstance of 
     
     most of them having taken their leases in 
     
     sterling mouey, which being very scarce in 
     
     the Country, placed them at the complete 
     
     mercy of proprietors, who at any time 
     
     could thus dispossess them by insisting on 
     
     the fulfilment ofthe conditions of their a- 
     
     greements He said it came to his know- 
     
     ledge, that an agent availing himselfofthis 
     
     enforced 20 per cent premium on this cur- 
     
     rency, to indemnify the proprietor for the 
     
     expence of remitting his receipts to his 
     
     principal. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Dalrmyple supported this Resolution, 
     
     and adduced the case of Able, who demand- 
     
     ingsterling money and having seized, and 
     
     attempted to bring away a beast from the 
     
     tenant, though he tendered him the full a- 
     
     mount in the turrent coin of the Country, 
     
     paid the forfeit of his life for the attempt. 
     
     Mr. Brenan opposed the motion, and 
     
     said that he yielded to no man in his wish 
     
     for the benefit of the country. On this 
     
     account he wishe I this question settled, and 
     
     should vote for the. resolutiOns; but he 
     
     could not allow any to pass whose direct 
     
     gendency must be to make them appear ri- 
     
     tculous or worse ; whatevvr had been the 
     
     ontracts between the Landlords and Ten- 
     
     they had no right to interfere, no 
     
     on than in any other description of pri- 
     
     ale property, as such contracts were 
     
    
   
   
    
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     made wnth the full consent of both parties 
     
     He wished the measure to rest on its own 
     
     merits, and not to be burdened ’with ex- 
     
     traneous and irrevalent matter which 
     
     could only gratify the ignorant or be made 
     
     the base of popularity, (such as it was.) 
     
     He also expreSsed his dissent from the as- 
     
     sertion in Lord Goderich’s despntch rela 
     
     tive t ) settlers leaving the lands of propri- 
     
     etors, except as stated in the resolution.— 
     
     He knew a proprietor, who indeed brought 
     
     out emigrants, but burdened his leases with 
     
     so many conditions that no person could 
     
     fulfil. Could it then he asked, be expect- 
     
     ed that persons would stay on his lanls 
     
     when so much better terms could be ob- 
     
     tained ? Many proprietors had passengers 
     
     come out it their vessels ; but did they 
     
     not pay for their accommodations, and 
     
     how then could they be said to have 
     
     brought them out? He contended that. 
     
     the emigrants themselves had in these in- 
     
     stances come on their own resources, and 
     
     were under no compliment to proprietors. 
     
    

    
     There were one or two instances. how- 
     
     ever, which fell under his knowledge, and 
     
     he therefore moved that this should be in— 
     
     serted in the resolution. This was carried. 
     
     —Mr OWen also withdrew his motion. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Brecken, Mr. Pope, and some 0- 
     
     thers spoke in favor of the Resolutions, 
     
     but nearly to the same purpose. We un- 
     
     derstand that the Committee had leave to 
     
     sit again. 
     
    

    
     An Act was also passed. authorising the 
     
     further issue of’I‘reasury Notes, to the a- 
     
     mount of 50):”. to be yearly redeemed 
     
     and cancelled by the proceeds ofthe Land 
     
     Tax, in order that the public buildings may 
     
     he proceeded with directly. 
     
    

    
     I. Ruoltved, Thatiu the year I767 His Ma. 
     
     jesty King George the Third was graciously 
     
     pleased to confer on this Island a separate 
     
     and independent Government from that of 
     
     Nova SCotia, to which it had been previously 
     
     annexed, and therein was pleased to grant it 
     
     acolonial Legislature, upon the express con- 
     
     dition and stipulation that the Grantees of 
     
     Lands in this Colony from the Crown should 
     
     pay the Civil List for a limited period, which 
     
     appears by a Memorial presented to Go- 
     
     vernment,. and which forms an appendix to the 
     
     Royal Instructions to Governor Patterson 
     
     and also by the l9lh to the QM section of the 
     
     Instructions both inclusive, copies of which 
     
     memorial and instructions are as follows: 
     
    

    
     Copy oftheform ofa Memorial of the_ Pro- 
     
     prietor: of the Island of Saint John, m the 
     
     Gulphof Saint Lawrence. North America. pre. 
     
     untedlo (he Right Honorable and Honorable 
     
     [he Lords Commissioners of Trade and Planta- 
     
     lions. 
     
    

    
     Your Memorialists therefore humbly pray 
     
     that our Lordships will be pleased to recom- 
     
     mendy it to his Majestv to issue his royal or. 
     
     ders, that the Island ofSnintJohn, in the Gulph 
     
     of Saint Lawrence. North America, may be 
     
     formed idto . separate Government, on such 
     
     erms and conditions as may be approved of 
     
     by your Lonhits; as that for defrsytng the ex. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     penses thereof, His Majesty will be pleased 
     
     to give his royal orders, that the one half of 
     
     tho Quit-Rents ofthe lands in the Island of 
     
     St. John, be payable in five years after Mi- 
     
     chaelmas next, from the date of their grants, 
     
     acc0rding to the grants directed by his royal 
     
     order ofthe 'l'wenty-sixth day of August, One 
     
     Thousand Seven llundred and Sixty-nine. may 
     
     be secured and become payable from the first. of 
     
     May Sxty-nine, and that furthersuch time may 
     
     be given to the proprietors for payment of the 
     
     other halt'of the Quit-Rena. as to his Majesty 
     
     in, his great goodness and wisdom shall appear 
     
     reasonable. 
     
     (ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS.) 
     
    

    
     19th. The having a Revenue competent to all the 
     
     necessary servicesofGovernment. both fixed and inci- 
     
     dental. established upou a solid and permanent founda- 
     
     tion. is essential to every Civil Institution of this na- 
     
     ture, and ought to he one of t he first objects quegis- 
     
     lotion; the Establishment already formed, wrll point 
     
     out what the extent of that Revenue should be. and 
     
     the nature of the duties and taxrs to be granted to us 
     
     for this purpose must depend upon Circumstances that 
     
     can neither be known or judged of here. and upon a 
     
     full consideration of what has been found mOst bene- 
     
     ficial in other infant colonies. in the like case; it will. 
     
     however, be your duty. as soon as a General Assem- 
     
     bly is formed. to recommend this matter to the consi- 
     
     deration of the House of Representatives. and require 
     
     them. in our name, to grant to us Slll‘l] Revenue as may 
     
     amount to all the ekpences of Government. upon 
     
     some certain estimate. 
     
    

    
     20th. In the mean time, and until such Reve- 
     
     nue can be established, we haVe taken into 
     
     our Royal Consideration,a proposal made by 
     
     the principal proprietors of Lots or Townships 
     
     within Our said lsl.t:t:l ol'St. John, by which they 
     
     respectively engage to take out fresh Grants 
     
     for their Lots, under the Seal ofour said Island 
     
     of St. John, tn exchange for those they have 
     
     already taken out under the Seal of our Pro- 
     
     vince of Nova Scotia, upon the following terms 
     
     and conditions- That is to say, That one inoiet 
     
     of the Quit Rent, originally reserved n we 
     
     Lots, and to commence at the expiration of 
     
     five years, from the date thereof, shall, by the 
     
     terms of those new Grants, commence and 
     
     become payable to us, our Heirs and Succes- 
     
     sors, from and after the first day of -May 
     
     last. past. That the other moiety, the pay- 
     
     ment of which was to take place at the expt. 
     
     ration often years, shall, by the terms of t a 
     
     said new Grant, not commence and become 
     
     parable. until the expiration oftwenty years 
     
     from the date thereof. _ I 
     
    

    
     2!st. As the proposal has In View to enable 
     
     us to make provision for the support of Govern- 
     
     ment within our said Island, until the Inhabi- 
     
     tants thereof shall be in a condition to provide 
     
     for that purpose, by a proper Revenue, arlstng 
     
     out of duties and taxes granted to us by Acts 
     
     of Legislature. We have thought lit graciously 
     
     to accept the same. and thereforemur VIII 
     
     and pleasure is, that you do forthwith. "P00 
     
     your arrival in your Government. 05"!" “39 
     
     said proposals, the original whereof, in wri- 
     
     ting, and subscribed by the Proponants, will 
     
     be herewith delivered to you. to be re rlstered 
     
     and mtered noon record in the Council Books, 
     
     and you do forthwith proceed to pass fresh 
     
     Patents under the Seal of our said Island; for 
     
     the respective Lots, upon the terms and con- 
     
     ditions above mentioned, for which patents 
     
     no fee or reward whatever shall be taken, 
     
     either by yourselfor by any other person ac— 
     
     ting- under your authority. . 
     
     221. The annual amount of the Quit Rents 
     
     which will thus become (Inc and payable to 
     
     us, are as follow~That ts tong, '. 0. ‘. 
     
     Twentyvsix Lots at Six Shillings per on 
     
    
   
   
    
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     hundred acres. a ntoietv of which to ¢ - l . 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Twenty-nine Lots at Four Shillings pg, m; “o o  . 
     
     h unared acres - - - .