114 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
of Nova Scotia. If, therefore, Mr. MeNutt’s plan should go beyond his present 
engagements, it must be submitted to your Majesty how far it would be prudent 
in the present, or indeed in any situation, for Government to permit, or at least to 
encourage, any further migration from Ireland of great numbers of the most loya] 
and usefull subjects your Majesty has in that Kingdom. But it is our duty at the 
same time to observe that the eager disposition which appears in the Inhabitants 
of the North of Ireland to migrate into the American Colonies has not been par- 
ticularly excited by the prosecution of this plan, it has long prevailed amongst 
them, and Agents are continually employed to avail themselves of it, under whose 
directions many thousands have gone over from the North of Ireland and will 
(unless measures are taken to restrain them) still continue to go over upon terms 
and conditions much less advantageous to themselves and to the Publick than those 
offered on the part of Mr. McNutt, who has himself indeed upon this occasion candidly 
and ingenuously confessed that if he is not suffered to proceed in his plan for settling 
Nova Scotia, he shall endeavour to procure Settlements for the persons he has engaged 
with in some other parts of America. 
Upon the whole therefore, we humbly submit to your Majesty, whether it is 
not both just and reasonable that the proposals made last year by Mr. McNutt 
should be confirmed in respect of all such engagements as he has already made and 
that your Majesty’s Governor of Nova Scotia should be directed by Your Majesty’s 
order in Council to make grants to the persons already introduced and to be intro- 
duced by Mr. McNutt of those lands reserved for their settlement in the proportions 
and upon the terms stated in his proposals laid before your Majesty by this Board 
in their Representation of the 5th of March, 1761. 
All which is most humbly submitted, 
SANDYS, 
SOME JENYNS, 
Ep. Exior, 
Ep. Bacon, 
JoHN ROBERTS. 
Whitehall, April 8th, 1762. 
