Note 46 — Chapter II · CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE QUEBEC ACT (continued 2)

For this ordinance see Shortt and Doughty, p. 280. Carleton’s dispatch of March 28, 1770, which enclosed the ordinance, explained the reasons for passing it, and submitted in evidence of the abuses which had sprung up a letter from an ex-captain of Canadian militia, will be found printed in Mr. Brymner’s Report on Canadian Archives for 1890 (published in 1891), Note A.