History of the government of the island of Newfoundland / With an appendix containing the Acts of Parliament made / respecting the trade and fishery (eBook, PDF)
John Reeves
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History of the government of the island of Newfoundland / With an appendix containing the Acts of Parliament made / respecting the trade and fishery (eBook, PDF)

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Introduction I intend to give a short history of the Government and Constitution of the island of Newfoundland. This will comprise the struggles and vicissitudes of two contending interests.—The planters and inhabitants on the one hand, who, being settled there, needed the protection of a government and police, with the administration of justice: and the adventurers and merchants on the other; who, originally carrying on the fishery from this country, and visiting that island only for the season, needed no such protection for themselves, and had various reasons for preventing its being a...