Abbreviations used
Date September 27 1867
County Charlotte
Place Saint Stephen
Newspaper Saint Croix Courier
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Requisition to Capt. W.S. ROBINSON - Sir: We the undersigned electors of Charlotte Co., having the highest confidence in your personal integrity and moral worth, beg respectfully to request that you allow yourself for one of the vacant seats in the Local Legislature caused by the elevation of Messrs. STEVENS and CHANDLER to the Bench. (signed) Jas. G. McCONNELL John ROBINSON, Sr., Hugh MORRISON, Jas. W. BUCHANAN, David TRAFTON, William QUAID, John W. MANN, Frank T. MOORE and 321 others., fellow citizens of St. James. (see original for reply - W. Somerville ROBINSON declines)