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| | 130John_Chafe_Homestead, Petty Harbour, Chafe |
 | | During the 1730s successive governors, such as Fitzroy Henry Lee, urged that a court of oyer and terminer be established in Newfoundland, and in 1737 the Board of Trade almost decided to initiate one. |
 | | Many naval convoy commanders, distrusting the fishing admirals and detesting lawlessness, sympathized with the need for a more permanent judicial system, and in 1718 one of them, Commodore Thomas Scott, recommended that "winter justices" be appointed annually to serve until the fleet returned the following year. |
 | | The Petition of the Inhabitants of Petty Harbour in Newfoundland |
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