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Show 4.33 Acts RELATlNG Part Ill. Sect. VIII. TO THE COLON‘IES. 439 " where fedentary fifheries had been efia- 8 E C T. VIII. ‘1726 Quebec 1162‘. HE firft objcét propofed by this act is to defcribe the boundaries of what is hereafter to be called the province of (Eebcc. For it feems all that had been hitherto done towards fettling either the limits or the government of this colony. lince its firl‘t acquifition, was by a procla- mation ifihed by the king in the third year of his reign. And {0 wifely and " blifhed, and carried on by the fubjeéts " of France, inhabitants of the province " of Canada, under grants and .concef" fions of the government thereof, were " annexed to the government of New" foundland, and thereby fubjec'ted to re- ‘-‘ gulations inconliftent with the nature " of fuch fifheries."--Thefe certainly were great inconveniences: and it is wonderful that during a fpacc of eleven years i no remedy had been applied to them. At the end of this period, ,the a& be. fore us provides a remedy. It extends this proclamation drawn. and defcribes the boundaries of the pro- up, that (as the a€t feta forth) " aJvargc " extent of country, within which were vinces, including within thofe boundaries " feveral colonies and fettlements of the " {objects of France, who claimed to re- which no civil government had been pro- vided by the proclamation; and the La- " main there under the faith of the treaty bradore coaf't, which by that proclama- " of Paris, was left without any provi- tion had been afieéletl to the government " vilion being made for the adminifira‘ " tion of civil government therein; and of Newfoundland; providing at the fame ." certain parts of the territory of Canada, I ‘F where diet the delhription itlelf, carefully was the colonies, and back fettlements, for time, by a claufe, which {eems t0 contra- E f 4. that nothing herein |