106 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
That the lands proposed to be settled on the Bay of Fundy, as expressed in the 
former proclamation, will be distributed with such proportion of interval, plow land, 
mowing land and pasture as will be sufficient to maintain the respective families 
that shall be established thereon. 
That the Government of Nova Scotia is constituted like those of the neighbouring 
Colonies, the Legislature consisting of a Governor, Council and House of Assembly, 
and every Township, so soon as it shall consist of fifty families, will be entitled to 
send two representatives to the General Assembly. The Courts of Justice are also 
constituted in like manner with those of the Massachusetts, Connecticut and Northern 
Colonies. 
That as to the article of Religion, full liberty of conscience, both by His Majesty’s 
Royal Instructions and a late Act of the General Assembly of this Province is secured 
to persons of all persuasions, Papists excepted, as may more fully appear by the 
following abstract of the said Act, viz.:— 
‘Protestants dissenting from the Church of England, whether they be Calvanists, 
Lutherans, Quakers, or under what denomination soever, shall have free liberty 
of conscience, and may erect and build Meeting Houses for public worship, and 
may choose and elect Ministers for the carrying on Divine Service and administration 
of the Sacrament, according to their several opinions, and all contracts made between 
their Ministers and Congregations for the support of their Ministry are hereby 
declared valid, and shall have their full force and effect according to the tenor 
and conditions thereof, and all such Dissenters shall be excused from any rates or 
taxes to be made or levied for the support of the Established Church of England.’ 
That no taxes have hitherto been laid upon His Majesty’s subjects within this 
Province nor are there any fees of office taken upon issuing the grants of land. 
That I am not authorized to issue any bounty of provisions: and I do hereby 
declare that I am ready to lay out the lands and make grants immediately under 
the conditions above described, and to receive and transmit to the Lords Commis- 
sioners for Trade and Plantations, in order that the same may be laid before His 
Majesty for approbation, such further proposals as may be offered by any body of 
people for settling an entire Township under other conditions that they may conceive 
more advantageous to the undertakers. 
That Forts are established in the neighbourhood of the lands proposed to be 
settled, and are garrisoned by His Majesty’s troops, with a view of giving all manner 
of aid and protection to the settlers if hereafter there should be need. 
Given in the Council Chamber at Halifax this 11th day of January, 1759, in the 
thirty-second year of His Majesty’s reign. 
(Signed) CHARLES LAWRENCE. 
IV. 
Representation of the Lords of Trade of the Terms and Conditions proposed to a 
number of Inhabitants of the Adjacent Colonies to Settle wpon the Lands vacated by the 
French Inhabitants in Nova Scotia—December 20th, 1759. 
MEMORIAL TO THE KING. 
“To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty :— 
May it please Your Majesty, 
The Success of Your Majesty’s arms in the year 1755, in dispossessing the 
French of the several encroachments they had made at Beauséjour, Bay Verte and 
other parts of the Colony of Nova Scotia, having afforded a favourable opportunity 
