142 KOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



VOTES OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. 



Province of Nova Scotia. 



Halifax, Monday, October 2nd, 1758. 



Joseph Gerrish,* , . Robert Campbell, 



Robert Sanderson, J William l^antree, 



Henry Newton, [h .Josepb Fairbanks,§ 



William Foye, [ g, Phillip Hammond, 



William Nesbitt, w .John Fillis, 



Joseph Rundel, -' ^ Lambert Folkers, 



Jonathan Binney.t ^ ^ Philip Knaut, 



Henry Ferguson, | -S William Best, 



Georfi;e Suckling, f S Alexander Kedie, 



John Jînrbidpre,* jw 



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Met at the Court House pursuant to a summons from the Provost Mar- 

 shal acquainting them that they were duly elected and chose William Nesbitt, 

 Henry Newton and Joseqih Rundel to wait on the Governor wilth a message 

 that they were assembled at the Court House and were ready to enter on 

 business. Ajid they were answered that he would send down two members of 

 the Council to sw«ar them. Accordingly the Hon. Benjamin Green and 

 Charles Morris, Esqurs., came to the Court House and administered the 

 oaths to the aforenamed, and they all made and subscribed the Declaration, 

 after which the House received a message that His Excellency would meet 

 the Assembly at his own House pursuant to which they waited on His Excel- 

 lency who was then in Council when he directed them to proceed to the 

 choice of a Speaker, upon which they went down and chose Robert Sanderson, 

 Esq., for their Speaker, and returned to acquaint His Excellency therewith, 

 who approved of the choice they had made and was pleased to make the 

 following speech : — 



" Gentlemen of the Council and House of Représentatives : — ^His Majesty 

 having been most graciously pleased by His Royal Instructions to 'his Gov- 

 ernors of this Province to direct the calling and assemibly of the Freeholders 

 to act in conjunction with his Governors and Council as the Legislative 

 authority when such a measure should be found essential to his service. 



I am to tissure you that it is with particular pleasure I now meet you 

 convened in that capacity in consequence of a plan sometime since formed 

 here for that purpose with the advice and assistance of His Majesty's Council, 

 and my me transmitted to the Lords, Commissioners for Trade and Planta- 

 tions to be laid before His Majesty fur his approbation. 



Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : — I entertain the most san- 

 guine hopes that you are come together unanimously disposed to promote the 

 service of the Crown, or in other words the real welfare and prosperity of 

 the people whom you have the honour to represent in every point to the 

 utmost of your authority and capacity. This I presume you will conceive 

 is justly to be expected not only from the Immediate regard due to the civil 

 righis and interest of your constituents but likewise from the unspeakable 

 obligations you are under to demonstrate in their behalf your dutiful sense 

 of His Majesty's paternal concern for the prosperity and security of these 

 his Subjects in those distinguishing marks of his Royal Favour and protec- 



♦ See Appendix D. 

 t Sec Appendix D. 



t Col. Burbidge afterwards settled in King'» County. 



§ Great uncle of the late Hon, John Fairbanks, the lato Hon. Judge Fairbanks, and W. B. Fair- 

 banks and Saml. P. Fairbanks, Esquires, of Halifax. 



