Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Appendix 19: Petition of the Reverend Robert Willis, D.D., Rector of St. Paul's Church on behalf of the Coloured People of Halifax
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And your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Robert Willis D.D.
January 27th 1840.
Statement of the Income and Expenditure of the
African School at Halifax during the year 1839.
Income
| Tuition money received for scholars | £ | 12-10-0 |
| Entrance for scholars not paid, but probably will | 4-15-0 | |
| Received from Doctor Bray's Associates £40 sterl'g | 50-0-0 | |
| Grant from the Province Treasury | 100-0-0 | |
| Private Subscriptions | 5-0-0 | |
| ________ | ||
| 172-5-0 | ||
| Expenditure | ||
| Fuel | 22-1-6 | |
| Contingent expences (sic) | 5-19-4 | |
| Salary of the master | 110-0-0 | |
| Salary of the mistress | 40-0-0 | |
| ________ | ||
| 178-0-10 | ||
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 296 number 48