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At a Council holden at Sydney the 2^nd June 1786

                                    Present
                              His Excellency the Governor
                              } Richard Gibbons President           
The Honble          } Richard Sweet                     }
                              } George Rodgers                 }
                              } William Brown                   } Esquires
                              } Samuel Sparrow                 } ....

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f. 145

His Excellency the Governor stated to the Governor the present difficult and and alarming circumstances under which this government laborers, and the expediency of some persons of abilities [...?...] and Trust to be dispatched to England Xpress with the public papers and transactions of this government and requested the advice

f. 146

advice and opinion of the Board thereupon.

Whereupon it was moved by the Honorable W Sparrow seconded by the Honorable W Rodgers and [...?...] agreed to by the Board, that His Majesty's Council of Cape Breton do perfectly concur with his Excellency [...?...] [...?...] and that the Honorable the President of the Council and the Chief Justice of this Island be dispatched to England for that purpose.

Manuscript Group 11, Colonial Office 220,
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Sessional Papers,
Minutes of Executive Council, 1786
(M.G. 11, C.O. 220, C.B. "B", Vol. 2
 ff. 141, 146

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His Excellency the Governor was pleased to Nominate George Rodgers and Samuel Sparrow Esquires to be Assistant Justices of the Superior Court during the absence of the Chief Justice to which His Majestys Council give their Consent ... 

[RG 1, Cape Breton, Executive Council Minute Books, 1785-1820, Volume 318: Minutes of Council of the Island of Cape Breton from July 1785 to 16th July 1787. Collected and Bound by The Commission of Public Records, Halifax 1862 - Microfilm Reel PANS 15398]

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