Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

17 December 1807

Petition of Robert McElhinny, road commissioner, asking for compensation for his services. "Your petitioner not having an opportunity of examining the Law made it the last Session of Assembly relative to the expenditure of Sums of money for the like purpose, did not as by that law he might, retain any sum of money in his hands for Commissions and actually laid out and expended the whole Sum of money granted for the purposes aforesaid." Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 14 number 48