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mending to you grenUemeai, In the most earnest manner the resumption of a 

 bill under your consideration las-t session, makring liable to the present Duty 

 all spirituous liquors retailed In any quantities under fifteen gallons ; such a 

 bill I am well informed would greatly inuprove our circumstances, be a fur- 

 ther check upon vice and d^'bauchery (in my opinion) stand unexceptionable 

 In every publlck llglit ■whatever ; if upon the revival of it you should find 

 yourselves of the snjne opinion I make no doubt of Its taking place as I can 

 have no room to suppose there are any amongst us so sordid as to sacrifice 

 publlck benefit to private vieTvs of personal advantage. 



You have a most pleasing and flattering prospect now before you, Gentle- 

 men, t'his seems to be the cressis for putting the Province into a flourishing 

 and happy state. The town of Halifax surprisingly improved of late increases 

 daily in wealth and numbers. Very extetnslve tracts of the vacated lands on 

 the banks of the Bay of Fundy have been lately granted away to Industrious 

 and substantial farmers, applications for more are crowding in upon me 

 faster than I can prepare the Grants, and I make no doubt but that the weQl 

 peopling of the whole will keep pace with our warmest and most rapid wishes. 

 The establishment of a yard in this excellent Harbor is a matter of the highest 

 advantage and importance to us, and if His Maje-sty's arms in North America 

 be blessed with that success this Slimmer which all appearances are big 

 with at present, th^e progress made in the Province of Nova Scotia during 

 one year will exceed the growth of haQf a century In the most boasted of 

 His Majesty's American Dominions. 



Let me entreat you therefore Gentlemen of the House of Representatives 

 to make despatch in the Business before you, to conduct it with mildness and 

 unanLmity and to record nothing In your Journals wihich can serve oojly to 

 tarnish the credit of your proceedings. 



If anything for advancing the happiness of the people should present itself 

 to your consideration which has escaped my notice, you may be assured of 

 my ready concurrence with you In the prosecution of it, that I ^all adhere 

 strictly to every proposal and join heartily in every measure to promote the 

 publick welfare and in that the lasting honor and reputation of the Ijegls- 

 lature." 



RESOLVED, That a Committee be appointed to answer His Excellency's 

 SDeech. 



RESOLVED, That for the future the Assembly meet at the Court House, 



Then adjourned till to-morrow morning ten o'clock. 



^^^î^t^sts'îi^n!'''^' } VOTES OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. 



Province of Nova Scotia, 



Halifax, Tuesday, December 4th. 1759. 

 List of Members returned In/ t/ic Provost Marshal. 

 William Ncshitt, Esq., Capt. Charles Proctor, Era.snius Ja.s. Philips, Esq., 



Henry Newton, Esq., Mr. Michael Franklin, .John Newton, Es(i., 



Malachy Salter,* Mr. Arcliihaid llinsiiclwood, Winckworlh Tonge, Esq., 



Mr. Jonathan Uinney, Sabnstine Zoubcrhulilcr, E.sq.,t Capt. Simon Slocomb, 

 Mr. John Burbid^e, Mr. Phillip Knaul, Col. Joseph Fry, 



Mr. Benjamin Gerrish, Col. Jonathan Hoar, John Huston, Esq. 



Joseph Scott, I'lsq., Mr. Isaac Deschamps, 



A Quorum of the House being met a Committee waited on His Excellency 

 the Governor to acquaint him therewith and that they were ready to proceed 



* .Mr. Salter was a n:itivo of Xcw Knglund. See Appendix 1). 

 t Afterwards a iiioiiibcr of Council. 



