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the purpose of “parcelling it out” to his settlers, this being the only 
way he can have security for the repayment by the settlers of their 
passage and subsistence. As a practical aid to his undertaking he asks 
that his vessels, after delivering their passengers at Halifax, may have 
the contract of transporting to Europe “the Neutral French, falsely so- 
called,” who are yet in Nova Scotia. Also that their Lordships would 
allow him a vessel of 100 Tons to carry his settlers to their various 
locations after their arrival in the province and that he might be allowed 
to have the contract of making and clearing roads from Halifax to the 
new townships and other kinds of public work, such as the construction 
of block-houses and providing wood for the garrisons, and thus afford 
employment to any settlers unable to get at once upon their lands. In 
order to enable him the better to pursue his canvas for settlers in Ire- 
land he asks that he may be allowed to recommend out of their number, 
proper persons to bear commissions in the militia of the new townships, 
also that he may assure all denominations of Protestants that they 
“shall all bear offices and enjoy equal privileges.” He desired also 
to have two thousand acres of land in each township to carry on the 
manufacture of Potash. 
The answer of the Lords of Trade to MceNutt’s memorial will be 
found in their representation to the King of the 12th of April. [See 
Appendix IX]. 
They state therein that having called McNutt before them he had 
given them very full information both of what he had done and of what 
he intended to do for the settlement of Nova Scotia. They were in- 
formed that he had entered into contract with merchants at London- 
derry for the hire of 10,000 tons of shipping, in order to carry seven or 
eight thousand persons to Nova Scotia, and also had contracted for five 
hundred bushels of hemp seed with a view to encourage the production 
of that valuable commodity. 
Forseeing objection on the part of the Ministry to Irish emigration 
on a large scale, the Lords of Trade were induced to make a special recom- 
mendation in the interests of Colonel McNutt who seems to have won 
them over to his views. They state that the eager disposition of the 
people of the north of Ireland to migrate to America had not been 
particularly excited by his proposals, but had long prevailed, and that 
agents from the American colonies were continually employed, under 
whose directions many thousands had already gone. Many more 
would go upon terms much less advantageous than those offered by 
McNutt, who, if not suffered to proceed with his plan in Nova Scotia, 
had frankly intimated that he would endeavour to procure settlements 
for the persons he had engaged with in some other parts of America. 
They suggested, therefore, that Colonel McNutt should be permitted to 
