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{{Title|Petition of the Counties in the District of Quebec and of the County of Warwick, District of Montreal.|Inhabitants of the Province of Lower Canada|1823}} | |||
To the King's most Excellent Majesty: | To the King's most Excellent Majesty: | ||
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But of all the abuses of which the inhabitants of this province hate to complain tbe most afflicting to your Petitioners is that during the prevalence of Me aforementioned and various other abuses and grievances f ilse représentations and repeated attempts have been made by divers officers of the Provincial Executive possessing the conadeiire of your Majesty's Government to obtain from your Majesty's Government in England and the Parliament of the United Kingdom various alterations in the constitution uf the Government of this province as established bj law without the knowledge ot our Majesty's faithful subjects in this province in contempt of their most sacred rights and dearest interests and this at a time w en a majority of Executive Couucillors Judge and other officers in the Legislative Council prevented the inhabitant of the proviure from having an authorized agent in England to watch over and support f eir iut iv tv and enable them to be heard by the Government of the mother country and it is utiHcr these circumstances that the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 4th Geo IV c 6 reviving or continuing certain temporary Acts of the Provincial Legislature 1ету1цу duties within this province and the Acts affecting the tenure of lands therein were parsed wit out the knowledge of its inhabitants to the subversion of their rights and dear t interests and particularly without the knowledge or consent of the proprietors more immediately interested inthe last mentioned Acts It is with the most afflicting sensations tliat we have witnessed the intrigues w ich have been in operation to despoil your Majesty's faithful subjects in this province of the rig ts and benefits which were granted and guaranteed to us by the supreme authority of a powerful and generous nation under t e auspices of its most illustrious citizens. | But of all the abuses of which the inhabitants of this province hate to complain tbe most afflicting to your Petitioners is that during the prevalence of Me aforementioned and various other abuses and grievances f ilse représentations and repeated attempts have been made by divers officers of the Provincial Executive possessing the conadeiire of your Majesty's Government to obtain from your Majesty's Government in England and the Parliament of the United Kingdom various alterations in the constitution uf the Government of this province as established bj law without the knowledge ot our Majesty's faithful subjects in this province in contempt of their most sacred rights and dearest interests and this at a time w en a majority of Executive Couucillors Judge and other officers in the Legislative Council prevented the inhabitant of the proviure from having an authorized agent in England to watch over and support f eir iut iv tv and enable them to be heard by the Government of the mother country and it is utiHcr these circumstances that the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 4th Geo IV c 6 reviving or continuing certain temporary Acts of the Provincial Legislature 1ету1цу duties within this province and the Acts affecting the tenure of lands therein were parsed wit out the knowledge of its inhabitants to the subversion of their rights and dear t interests and particularly without the knowledge or consent of the proprietors more immediately interested inthe last mentioned Acts It is with the most afflicting sensations tliat we have witnessed the intrigues w ich have been in operation to despoil your Majesty's faithful subjects in this province of the rig ts and benefits which were granted and guaranteed to us by the supreme authority of a powerful and generous nation under t e auspices of its most illustrious citizens. | ||
We most humbly implore your Majesty to take this our petition into your mo t gracious consideration to exercise your Royal Prerogative so that your Majesty's faithful subjects in this Province be relieved from the aforesaid abuses and grievances and | We most humbly implore your Majesty to take this our petition into your mo t gracious consideration to exercise your Royal Prerogative so that your Majesty's faithful subjects in this Province be relieved from the aforesaid abuses and grievances and justice b done in the premises that your petitioners may be maintained and secured in the lull enjoyment of the constitution of government as established by the Act passed in the 3Nt year of the reign of our late Sovereign your Royal Father without any alteration titre of whatsoever. | ||
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. | And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. | ||
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County of Warwick, 4,904 | County of Warwick, 4,904 | ||
29, | 29,338 | ||
2nd. February 1828. | 2nd. February 1828. |