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APPENDIX G. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



From Akins's '' Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of 



Nova Scotia.'' 



At a Council holden at the Governor's House in Halifax on Saturday the 20th 

 May, 1758. 



PRESENT- 



His Excellency the Governor, 



The Lieut. Governor, 



John Belcher, ~j C Benj. Green, 



Jno. Collier, r Councs. -! Robt. Grant, 



Montague Wilmot, J I Chas. Morris. 



His Excellency having- communicaied to the Council an extract of a 

 Letter to him from their Lordships of the Board of Trade dated February 7th, 

 1758, relative to the plan framed by the Governor and CouncU on the 3rd day 

 of January, 1757, and transmitted to their Lordships by the Governor for 

 carrying into Execution His Majesty's instructions upon calling General 

 Assemblies within the Province, signifying their Lordships' approbation of 

 the same in General, with some few alteratiomg which being considered the 

 Council came to the following Resolution thereon, vizt, That the said plan 

 with the amendments proposed by their Lordships shall be forthwiith carried 

 into Execution and published in form as follows, vizt.: — 



His Excellency the Governor, together with His Majesty's Council, having 

 had under mature consideration, the necessary and most expedient measures 

 for carrying into execution those parts of His Majesty's commission and 

 Instruction whicji relate to the calling of General Assemblies within the 

 Province, came to the following Riesolution thereon, vizt., 



That a House of Representatives of the inhabitants of this Province be 

 the Civil Legislature thereof in conjunction with His Majesty's Governor or 

 Commander in Chief for the time being, and His Majesty's Council of the 

 said Province. The first House to be elected and convened in the following 

 manner, and to be styled the General Assembly, vizt., 



That there sihall be elected for the Province at large until the same be 

 divided into counties, Sixteen Members, for the Township of Halifax Four, 

 for the Township of Lunenburg Two. 



That until the said Township can be more particularly described the 

 limits thereof shall be deemed to be as follows, vizt., 



That the Township of Halifax comprehend all the lands lying southerly 

 of a line extending from the Westernmost Head of Bedford Basin across to 

 the northeasterly head of St. Margaret's Bay, with all the islands nearest to 

 said lands, together with the islands called Cornwallis's, Webb's, and Rous's 

 Islands. 



