Reference: Moore, John Bassett (ed.) International Adjudications. Modern Series, Vol 1 (Saint Croix River Arbitration, Vol 1). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Oxford University Press, New York. 1929. pp 486-487.
The Executive Council of Nova Scotia decided to make James Boyd a justice of the peace at a meeting on 13 March 1767. The actual commission was made a few days later on 17 March 1767 and was given in a footnote in Moore as follows:
Lord William Campbell Captain General and Governor in Chief in and overReturn to James Boyd of Passamaquoddy Home
His Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia or Acadie and its Dependencies Vice
Admiral of the same, &c &c to James Boyd Esqr Greeting.
By virtue of the power and authority to me instrusted by his Majesty’s Com-
ission and royal instructions, reposing special trust and confidence in your
loyalty, fidelity and good conduct, I do by these presents appoint you the said
James Boyd, one of his majesty’s Justices of the peace for a district from the river
Saint John’s to the western boundary of this province during pleasure. And you
are hereby invested with all the powers and authorities specified and contained
in a Commission of the peace for the County of Sunbury, bearing date the
eleventh day of August Seventeen hundred and sixty six. In Witness whereof I
have signed these presents and caused the seal of the Province to be thereunto
affixed at Halifax this seventeeth day of March, in the seventh year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland King Defender of the faith, &c. and in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven. WILLIAM CAMPBELL. By his Ex-
cellency’s Command, R’D. BULKELEY.