Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

24 November 1808

Petition of James Gautier (two copies), stating that he has been in the service of the province 23 years, as clerk to different Secretaries, and Clerk of the Council. "That he continued to be a Clerk to the Secretary of the Province, until the appointment of Samuel Hood George Esq. to that Office, at which time your Petitioner was deemed on Account of his Age, which is now Sixty-six years, and the infirmities natural to that Period of Life, unfit to discharge any longer the Duties of that Station; And the same infirmities which incapacitated him from performing those Duties have also rendered him unable to continue his attendance on His Majesty’s Council as their Clerk. That your Petition hath carefully preserved all the Records and Papers committee to his Custody during the time he held the Offices above mentioned, and by his care hath preserved the Records of the Titles of Property from falling into the Confusion liable to be occasioned by the changes of Secretaries and hath delivered over to a Committee of His Majesty’s Council every Paper and thing whatsoever belonging to the above mentioned Offices, and in his Custody at the time of his removal therefrom That the removal of your Petitioner from the Offices he held, hath left him entirely destiture of the meaning of procuring the common necessaries of Life." Asking for relief.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 15 number 100