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tend to secure vessels from Shipwreck, which would otherwise be exposed to that Disaster.

Strongly impressed with a Sense of the necessity and propriety of taking some measures for this purpose, the House think it their Duty to recommend to your Excellency, to cause advertisement to be made for the proposals of such Persons as may be willing to become Settlers on the Island of Sable by which means your Excellency may be enabled to select three well qualified and trusty men, who have Families to be located there for a term of Years; and also that you will be pleased to devise such a system of Regulation as your Excellency with the advice of your Council, may judge adequate and suitable to their Government.

The House are of Opinion that securing to them a term of Profession and the Exclusive Privilege in certain advantages the Island affords, will operate as a great Encouragement to Persons to undertake the projected Location but as such an Establishment

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