Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

18 February 1811

Memorial of Michael Wallace, Provincial Treasurer, stating his services in that office for the previous thirteen years, that his salary has remained at £400 per annum "without any Fees or Emolument whatever appertaining thereto or ever received by him; and without any allowance for a clerk, office rent, fuel or stationary." "That for some Years after Memorialist was appointed, the duty was not so considerable, as to prevent him from occasionally attending to such Commission business as his Commercial friends and correspondents put in his way to increase his income, without which he could not have lived upon his Sallary with any degree of decency or Comfort. That of late years, the Revenues and expenditures of the Province, have so much increased the business of the Treasurer’s Office, that your Memorialists’ whole time and constant daily attendance is required to discharge the duties thereof"… This and the increased expense of everything prompts him to suggest an increase of salary.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 25