Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

18 January 1808

Draft of report on conference with Council, giving message from the Council, explaining why Council have sent down copies instead of originals of the Assembly’s resolutions… "this mode is rendered necessary on the part of the Council by the practice of the House of so connecting long Strings of different Resolutions together that the Originals cannot be sent down without great risk of mistake, where part only are Agreed to part be for further Consideration and part are disagreed to. But if the Assembly will send each several Resolution to the Council by itself it would be severally Considered. And the original sent down if the House wished it."

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 15 number 23