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Minutes of H. M. Council, 1736-1749. 73


the Deputies are required to see this order complied with on pain of being delivered to the discretion of the Indians 2nd June, 1745.


     An order to all the inhabitants (on pain of corporal punishment) on both sides of the river upwards to carry their Canoes immediately over against Joseph Lannous and the Deputies under the same penalty to see this order obeyed, 2nd June 1745.


     An order to all the inhabitants down the river on the south side to carry their horses immediately to the camp but those of the north side to carry theirs to Joseph Lannous and the Deputies to see this order obeyed and all to suffer death who disobeys, 2nd June 1745, N. S.


     An order to the Deputies to provide six bullocks immediately which are to be ready at Baptist Nordests by the time the enemy passes by, the Deputies to see this order executed on pain of being delivered over to the discretion of the Indians as well as the inhabitants who shall disobey this order, June 3rd 1745.


     At a Council held at the aforementioned place the same Members present on Wednesday 19th June 1745.


One of the Deputies of Pisaquid Pierre Landry appeared before the Council and Joseph LeBlanc in behalf of the Grand Pree but not a Deputy, with one of the Deputies of the river Canards Joseph Hebert with Melanson not a Deputy, and all the Deputies of this river, to whom after the Commander in Chief had taken notice of some of the districts not sending the proper persons they ought to have done (as being no Deputies) represented that it was notorious that there were several among them that had been officious towards the enemy and had gone so far as to discover even all the effects that belonged to the English by which means the enemy were enabled to possess themselves of these said effects and by giving them intelligence of the circumstances of the garrison and other means whereby the enemy had been encouraged on some attempts to the prejudice of the garrison, especially surprising some of the Company of Rangers on Goat Island, it was of absolute necessity that those of the inhabitants who had not entered into any of those practices and had a mind to secure to themselves the good will of the Government should join in discovering those who had misbehaved, that by exemplary punishment being made upon the guilty the innocent might expect to be preserved and that it behoved them to consider seriously of what was now proposed to them, that it besides was known that all the plunder the enemy had made by seizing the two schooners which came from Boston (the property of His Majesty's British subjects) was dispersed and bought up by the inhabitants of Mines, upon which Joseph LeBlanc said that what was bought up by the inhabitants of Mines was in order to be returned to the British proprietors, as well as the three prisoners they had redeemed out of the hands of the enemy, which they offered to bring and surrender here.


     The Council then resolved that they should be ordered to bring the


               

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