1 040 MISCELLANEOUS. 



of Twelve Inches from the ground growing vpon any soyle or Tract 

 of Land within Our said Province or Territory not heretofore 

 granted to any private persons And Wee doe restraine and forbid all 

 persons whatsoever from felling cutting or destroying any such Trees 

 without the Royall Lycence of Vs Our Heires and Successors first had 

 and obteyned vpon penalty of Forfeiting One Hundred Pounds 

 Sterling vnto Ous Our Heires and Successors for every such Tree 

 soe felled cutt or destroyed without such Lycence had and obteyned 

 in that behalfe anything in these presents conteyned to the contrary 

 in any wise Notwithstanding. In Witnesse whereof Wee have caused 

 these our Letters to be made Patents. Witnesse Ourselves att West- 

 mibster the Seaventh Day of October in the Third yeare of Our 

 Reigne 



By Writt of Privy Seale 



PlGOTT. 



Pro Fine in Hanaperio quadragint Marcos 

 J. TREVOR C. S. 

 W. RAWLINSON C. S. 

 G. HUTCHINS C. S.* 



EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF COLONIAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEM- 

 BLIES, MISCELLANEOUS BRITISH-COLONIAL AND OTHER COR- 

 RESPONDENCE, REPORTS, ETC. 



Extract from the minutes of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia. 



(WEDNESDAY, 24TH FEBRUARY, 1836) 



Mr. Uniacke, from the Joint Committee of the Council and this 

 House, reported an Address to His Majesty, which the Committee 

 had prepared and concurred in, in regard to the encroachments upon 

 the Fisheries, &c. ; and he read the same in his place, and afterwards 

 delivered it in at the Clerk's Table, where it was again read, and is 

 as follows: 



To the KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 



The Joint Address of Your Majesty's Council and House of Assem- 

 bly for the Province of Nova-Scotia, now in General Assembly 

 convened. 



MAY rr PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY 



We, Your Majesty's Council and House of Assembly, of this Your 

 Majesty's loyal Province of Nova-Scotia, now convened in General 

 Assembly, beg leave most respectfully to submit to the consideration 

 of Your Majesty's Government, the great importance of preserving 

 unimpaired, the Rights and Privileges belonging to Your Majesty's 

 subjects engaged in the Fisheries upon the Coasts of this Province; 

 and also, to prevent Foreigners from interfering or participating in 

 such Rights and Privileges. That, by the Statute of the Imperial 



* Sir John Trevor, Sir William Rawlinson, and Sir George Hutchins were 

 appointed lords commissioners of the great seal May 15, 1690; and were suc- 

 ceeded by Lord Somers as chancellor May 3, 1693. 



