% «>, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I Ui us m ■ 40 6" 12.5 2.2 M 1.8 11.25 mil 1.4 III 1.6 Corporation ■^^ O 4^ "^#» 6^ f^ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 372-450'J i. '^^ CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICIVIH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions historlques C Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techr iques 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 checked below. D D D D D n D Coloured covers/ Couverture de couleur Covers damaged/ Couverture endommagda Covers restored and/or laminated/ Couverture restaurie et/ou pelliculAe I I Cover title missing/ Le titre de couverture manque Coloured maps/ Cartes giographiques en couleur Coloured ink (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/ Reli6 avec d'autres documents Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin/ La re liure serr^e peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion le long de la marge int6rieure 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 ajout6es lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte, mais, lorsque cela itait possible, ces pages n'ont pas 6ti filmtos. L'institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a it6 possible da se procurer. Les details de cet oxemplaire qui sont peut-Atre uniques du point de vue bibliographique. qui peuvent modifier une image reproduite. ou qui peuvent exigar une modification dans la mAthode normale de filmage sont indiquis ci-dessous. I I Coloured pages/ Pages de couleur Pages damaged/ Pages endommagdes D D D Pages restored and/or laminated/ Pages restaurdes et/ou pellicul^es Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ Pages d6color6es. tacheties ou piqudes Pages detached/ Pages d^tachdes [~y] Showthrough/ Transparence I I Quality of print varies/ Quality in^gale de {'impression Includes supplementary material/ Comprend du materiel suppl4mentaire Only edition available/ Seule ddition disponible Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata slips, tissues, etc., have been ref limed to ensure the best possible image/ Les pages totalement ou partiellement obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une pelure, etc., ont 6t6 film6es d nouveau de fapon d obtenir la meilleure image possible. 1 1 1 P fi 1 s 7 V ^ d e b ri ri n Additional comments:/ Commentaires suppl^mentaires; [Printed ephemera] 1 sheet (verso blank) This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est film6 au taux de reduction indiquA ci-dessous. 10X 14X 18X 22X 26X 30X y 12X 16X 20X 24X 28X 32X Th« copy film«d h«r« has been rtproducad thanks to tha ganarosity of: D. B. Weldon Library University of Wettern Ontario (Regional History Room) Tha imagaa appaaring hara ara tha bast quality possibia considaring tha condition and lagibility of tha original copy and in Icaaping with tha filming contract spacifications. Original copiaa in printad papar covars ara filmad baginn^ng with tha front covar and anding on tha last paga with a printad or illustratad impras- sion, or tha bacic covar whan appropriata. All othar original copias ara filmad baginning on tha first paga with a printad or illustratad impraa- sion, and anding on tha last paga with a printad or illustratad impraasion. Tha last racordad frama on aach microficha shall contain tha symbol — ^ (moaning "CON- TINUED"), or tha symbol y (moaning "END"), whichavar appliaa. L'axamplaira film* fut rcproduit grAca k la ginirositi da: D. B. Weldon Library University of Western Ontario (Regional History Roomi Laa imagaa suivantas ont 4t6 raproduitas avac la plus grand soin. compta tanu da la condition at da la nattati da l'axamplaira film*, at •n conformity avac las conditions du contrat da filmaga. Laa axamplairao originaux dont la couvartu ra an papiar aat imprim*a sont fiimAs an commandant par la pramiar plat at en tarminant soit par la darnlAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'lmpraasion ou d'illustration. soit par la sacond plat, salon la cas. Toua las autras axamplairas originaux sont filmte an commandant par la pramlAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'impraaaion ou d'illustration at an tarminant par la darniAra paga qui comporta una talla amprainta. Un daa symbolas suivants apparaitra sur la darniAra imaga da chaqua microficha. salon la caa: la symbols -^ signifia "A SUIVRE". la symbols V signifia "FIN". Mapa, plataa, charts, ate. may ba filmad at diffarant reduction ratios. Thosa too larga to ba entirely included in one exposure ara filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, aa many framea aa required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Lea cartes, planches, tableaux, etc.. peuvent dtre filmte A dee taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichA. il est fiimA d partir de Tangle sup4rieur gauche, de gauche it droite. et de haut en bas, an prenant le nombre d'images nteessaira. Lea diagrammas suivants illustrent la mAthoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 p. MAI TLAND. The Lieutenant Goveunor tliiriks proper to call the attention of the House of Assembly, to a subject which he has long regarded as one of mucli importance to the Province, and of particular interest to a large portion of its Inhabitants. The Mouse of Assembly is aware that of those persons wlio have come to (his Province from Foreign Countries, and more especially at an early period of its selllcment, many had been Citizens of the United States of America, and Subjects of that Government. Whatever difference of opinion may have f )rmerly prevailed with respect to the Civil Rights of persons so situated, from the circumstance of the United States of America having once being British Colonies, the solemn decision of the question in the Courts of the Mother Country whose Laws we have adopted, leaves no room for doubt — And these Inhabitants of the Province are exposed to the inconvenience of finding those rights denied which they have hitherto enjoyed, but which whenever they may be questioned must be decided upon by those to whom the Administration of Justice is committed according to Law, and without regard to incon- veniences which miglit be much regretted. There are also in this Province a number of Emigrants from other Foreign Countries, and many discharged Soldiers of Foreign Corps who not having strictly complied with the provisions o' those British Statutes, under which they might have bren entitled to the privileges ol subjects, are equally by law exposed to the danger of being regarded as Aliens. Of all t!ie persons thus situated the greater part became Inhabitants with the knowledge of the Government, between those and others it does not appear necessary to discriminate. In tho persuasion that they might all he safely received and acknowledged as eubjects, with no other qua- lifications than those which the Legislature of this Province has from time to time thought it expedient to impose, the Lieutenant Governor has earnestly pressed the subject upon the consideration of His Majesty's Government, and has it now in his power to communicate to the House of Assembly, that he has received His Majesty's e:;press sanction, to assent to an Kiiactment uhich may aOlird relief to such persons as are now in the Province, and the Lieutenant Governor doubis nol, that a subject so im- portant, will receive the early and attonfivo consideration of the House of Assembly. Government tiousc, ? 1.3//t ISovcv.iber, l»2.'i, ^ tr m t rn Kti mr mtm M i w ■ " ■ /h rrUx-.fd ntlht I . C Oa-dte Ofief, V»r/,'. 'c-^ #.^4 fL^^^ j7f ♦.' a^/c 'ci'C/ii!<^7' If' . ...»y»»^l1 ^gf^.»-«— "— *** -