Canada and Its Provinces: The Atlantic provincesAdam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty Brook, 1914 |
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Pàgina 95 - And we do hereby give and grant unto you, full Power and Authority, with the advice and consent of our said Council from Time to Time, as need shall require, to summon and call General Assemblies of the Freeholders and Planters within your Government, in manner and form as shall be directed in our Instructions which shall be given you, together with this our Commission.
Pàgina 90 - I am, through his Majesty's goodness, directed to allow you liberty to carry off your money and household goods...
Pàgina 88 - As it had been, before determined to send all the french Inhabitants out of the province if they refused to take the Oaths, nothing now remained to be considered but what measures should be taken to send them away, and where they should be sent to.
Pàgina 235 - The chimneys stood up erect, and marked the spot around which the social circle had assembled ; and the blackened fireplaces, ranged one above another, bespoke the size of the tenement and the means of its owner. In some places they had sunk with the edifice, leaving a heap of ruins, while not a few were inclining to their fall, and awaiting the first storm to repose again in the dust that now covered those who had constructed them. Hundreds of cellars with their stone walls and granite partitions...
Pàgina 280 - We are desirous of a change, not such as shall divide us from our brethren across the water, but which will ensure to us what they enjoy. All we ask is for what exists at home — a system of responsibility to the people extending through all the departments supported at the public expense.
Pàgina 95 - Councils and the representatives of the people so to be summoned as aforesaid to make, constitute, and ordain laws, statutes, and ordinances for the public peace, welfare, and good government of the said Colonies, and of the people and inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the laws of England...
Pàgina 137 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Pàgina 90 - I shall do everything in my power, that all those goods be secured to you, and that you are not molested in carrying...
Pàgina 298 - Lieutenant-Governor be authorized to appoint delegates to arrange with the Imperial Government a scheme of union which will effectually ensure just provision for the rights and interests of this Province...
Pàgina 144 - Sir we have served all the war. Your Honor is witness how faithfully. We were promised land, We expected you had obtained it for us, — We like the country — only let us have a spot of [our] own, and give us such kind of regulations as will hinder bad men from injuring us.