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Fortune Petition
Date 1910

Source: Provincial Archives GN 2.5.19 File 19J
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To the Honorable House of Assembly in Legislative session convened:
The Petition of the undersigned residents of Fortune in the electorial district
of Burin humbly showeth as follows:

Petitioners are very much interested in the cause of education, believing,
as they do, that much of the present and future welfare of the Colony and its
people depends upon the proper education of its children.

Petitioners believe that our present system of Education can be improved
without adding materially to the amount now annually expended by the Colony
upon this important service. Even if the improvements suggested call for a
larger expenditure of public money, petitioners believe that this expenditure
will be thoroughly justified as being in the best interest of the people.

  1. Free Elementary Education
  2. Compulsory attendance by children between the ages of seven
    and fourteen during a definite portion of the school year.
  3. Efficient and systematic government inspection of school buildings.
  4. Medical inspection of school children at least once a year.

And petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

NAME NAME
Arthur Gilliard
J R Gaulton
Philiip G Lake
John H Bennett
John Mosher
John T Elford
Isaac Hillien
George ? Gillard
George H Lake
John Fred Lake
Eaward Thornhill
John Snook
Morgan ?Spur??
Page 2Page 3
Thomas HickmanAW Lake
Geo H NoseworthyPhilip E lake
Thos E SpencerJames Lake
Aaron ?Forsey?John ? Spencer
Wm Weir KingJE Lake
Henry MavinThos Lake
Benj SpencerCharles Lake
Abram N PierceyCharles E Collier
Isaac HillierCapt P Woofrey S.A.
William LakeThomas Anety
Arthur Brooks xThomas Lake
James HickmanWilliam J Lake
Charles W CollierHenry Mosherr
John P LakeAbraham Thornhill
Simon WitherellWilliam Ayers
Heher A LakeJames Burton
W LakeJohn Woodland
Geo F DisseurRobert Snvak
?Ethrael Buffett xCecil Strong
Thomas DouslasJames Phonil
Saul MosferG H Buffett
Charles B LakeMorgan Brooks
Samuel MajarW P Lake
John HillierGeorge R Keepin
Silas Blagdon
James P Collier
W N Spencer
Page 4
Thos F Bennett
Albert Lake
?Ira? H Lake
Thomas E Lake
Hezekiah Gilliard
S A Francis
J A Haddon
James P Collier
Geo Barnell

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