Journals of the House of Assembly of the Province of New BrunswickPrinter to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1840 - New Brunswick |
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31st December Alexander amend amount Bay of Fundy Bill do pass Bill engrossed Bill referred Bill to continue Bridge Brunswick Carleton Chairman reported Charles City of Saint Commander in Chief Connell consideration continue an Act County of Charlotte Crown Lands Cunard Deputy Treasurer Ditto Ditto Ditto Esquire Excellency the Lieutenant Expenditure expunge the words Fredericton George Gloucester Governor or Commander Hammond River Honorable improve the Road intituled An Act James Johnston Joseph King's County L. A. Wilmot Leave granted leave to bring Licence Lieutenant Governor Light House Lumber M'Leod Majesty's Mill Miramichi motion moved for leave Northumberland Nova Scotia Ordered paid Parish Petition be received praying presented a Petition Rankin Read a third Red Pine Report be accepted report thereon Resolved resumed the Chair Richibucto River Road leading Robert Saint Andrews Saint John Saint Stephen Satisfactory Settlement Shediac Speaker resumed Thomas Timber tons Weldon Westmorland William Woodstock Woodward
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Page 56 - ... and protection (whether along the confines of the disputed territory or within that portion of it where, it has been before explained, the authority of Great Britain, according to the existing agreements, was not to be interfered with ) as may seem to them necessary for guarding against or for promptly repelling the further acts of hostile aggression over the whole of the disputed territory which it appears to be the avowed design of the State of Maine sooner or later to attempt. For the undersigned...
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