Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

10 December 1808

Petition of John Morehouse, asking for special consideration with regard to receiving drawbacks on duties. He was not entitled to the drawback legally allowed because he had not cleared the cargo at the office of any Collector or Comptroller of the Customs. He gives as excuse that "There is no Office of Impost and Excise at New Edinburgh, which is at the distance of more than twenty miles and Your petitioner could not have traveled to Digby without causing great delay and hazard to his Voyage undertaken to Bermuda which was very urgent." He encloses documents to prove his statements. Overleaf. "Granted."

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 15 number 101