[RAYMox»] PRE-LOYALIST SETTLEMENTS OF NOVA SCOTIA 103 
APPENDIX. 
Translation of Proclamation published at Rotterdam and other towns in Germany, 
in 1750, by John Dick, merchant, agent to receive applications from those desiring to 
settle in Nova Scotia. 
“Whereas His Britannic Majesty’s Lords Commissioners of Trade and Planta- 
tions have, during the last year, transported a great number of persons to Nova 
Seotia in North America, they have appointed Mr. John Dick, merchant and trader 
in Rotterdam, to agree with all those German Protestants and other Foreigners, 
who shall desire to settle in said Province and are willing to become British subjects, 
respecting the payment of their passage from Rotterdam to the said Province on 
reasonable terms, and to grant them, in consideration thereof, the following advan- 
tages :—- 
1. There shall be assigned and distributed to each foreigner, fifty acres of land 
free from all rent and taxes for ten years; after that no one shall pay more than 
one shilling yearly for said fifty acres so given him. 
2. Besides the fifty acres, there shall be assigned to every foreigner who hasa 
family, and to every member of the same, wife and children included, ten additional 
acres on the same terms; and still further privileges shall be granted to each one 
according to his skill in cultivation of land and in proportion to the increase of his 
family. 
3. All who are willing to accept the aforesaid proposals, shall be maintained 
with their families full twelve months after their arrival in the said Province. 
4. They shall be provided with as many arms and as much ammunition as 
shall be considered necessary, together with a sufficient quantity of materials and 
implements for house-keeping, clearing and cultivating their lands, erecting habita- 
tions, promoting the fisheries, and with other articles necessary for their sub- 
sistence. 
That such Foreigners as shall desire to settle in the aforesaid Province may 
have sufficient information respecting the same, it may be mentioned that the said 
Province of Nova Scotia is under the dominion of the Crown of Great Britain in 
North America, and situated between the 45th and 51st degrees of North Latitude. 
The air or climate is very healthy, and the soil as productive and fertile as that 
of any other British colony whatever, since by good cultivation it yields an abundance 
of everything necessary for the support of life—grain, hemp, flax, etc. The sea 
coast abounds with as great a variety of fish as any part of the American coast, and 
is particularly well situated for shipping and trade, being furnished with numerous 
secure and convenient harbours. For these reasons, during the last year, a great 
number of British subjects and Foreigners went thither and settled under the regula- 
tions of a careful and prudent person, commissioned for that purpose by His Majesty, 
and through their diligence and exertions have already made such uncommon progress 
that they have built a town [Halifax] of between three and four hundred houses. 
These colonists already enjoy all these advantages to a high degree. 
The plan of a civil government is the same as usual in the British colonies in 
America, and in accordance with the laws and privileges already established there 
by His Majesty’s authority. It has been put in force as far as the number and 
present circumstances of the inhabitants will admit and will be carefully and zeal- 
Sec. II., 1911. 8. 
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