IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) / O £/ A^ #. & 1.0 I.I 1.25 If 1^ 1^ I 1^ 112^0 U 111.6 V] V ^ I CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHIVI/ICIVIH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques 1980 Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Features of this copy which may be bibliographically unique, which may alter any of the images in the reproduction, or which may significantly change the usual method of filming, are checlced below. D D D D D D D D D D □ Coloured covers/ Couverture de couleur Covers damaged/ Couverture endommagde Covers restored and/or laminated/ Couverture restaur6e et/ou pellicul6e Cover title missing/ Le titre de couverture manque Coloured maps/ Cartes gdographiques en couleur Coloured inl< (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire) Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur Bound with other material/ Relid avec d'autres documents Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin/ La reliure serrde peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion le long de la marge intirieure Blank leaves added during restoration may appear within the text. Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajoutdes lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte, mais, lorsque cela dtait possible, ces pages n'ont pas 6td filmdes. Additional comments:/ Commentaires suppldmentaires; L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a 6t6 possible de se procurer. 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L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grdce d la gdn6rosit6 de: Nova Scotia Public Archives Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites avec le plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et de la nettetd de l'exemplaire film6, et en conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed beginning with the front cover and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All other original copies are filmed beginning on the first page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, and ending on the last page w'th a printed or illustrated impression. The last recorded frame on each microfiche shall contain the symbol — ^ (meaning "CON- TINUED "), or the symbol V (meaning "END"), whichever applies. Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en papier est imprim^e sont filmds en commenpant par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la dernidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second plat, selon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmds en commengant par la premidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustrat*nn et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la dernidre image de cheque nriicrofiche, selon le cas: le symbole — »• signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbole V signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmds d des taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est film6 d partir de Tangle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n6cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants lllustrent la m^thode. rrata to pelure, n 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 is-^ -vvife.- -,y Wr m ;K| ^^H ^% ■■^■ ^i2S£>'^'f^*fei«K;« ^7": .'f'-y^f^'^^^ FACTS ACKNOWLEDGED! »J-^i>ijH^^=H« A. 6. JONGS As a MONOPOLIST as well as a BOODLER ! ! AT THE DRILL SHED MEETING HE STATED " The document referred to was signed by me and it was sent to England. ^ A VOICE— Yoii ought to be ashamed to tell it (Cheers.) Mr. Jones— I am a merchant above all things, and |N MY OWN INTEREST. THE DOCUMENT. To the Right Honorable, the Lords of the Admirality : MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIPS— I, the undersigned merchant, ship-owner and inhabitant of the city of Halifax and Nova Scotia< fearing the posaibility of ony rotiowal of the expiring contract for th« conveyance of the mails lietween this city and the British Isles by steamer, respectfaUy beg to draw your attention to the following facts: That there now exists opportunities for postal steamer commuuicatioM with the British Isles by way of tie United States at least thrice a week, and that to [>ay for even » weekly direct commu- nication from this is of no possible comrouication whatever. That any subsidy so paid is nothing less than a subsidy in another form f()r merchandize traffic, and by heavily handicapping legitimate traders, is a serious interference with private enterprizes. That your petitioner has had large amount invested in wooden vessels engaged in carrying trade between t!ie two conntrles which has bee;3 most injuriously affected by undue competition with subsidized companies : ^ % That the increased trade between the two couutries would give employment to the Nota ScotiA shipping which now seeks employment in the carrying trade of foreign countries : That your pKitioner ha« laiige amounts invested in the carrying trade between the two coontrioB vrhich has been iiyuriously affected by undue competition with subsidized companies : And, they therefore pray that your lordships will not sanction the nonewal of the preaent expirii^ flMitract, or the making oif a new one ; '^ And, u in duty bound, your petitioner will ever pray. A. €t. JONES 4* CO.