Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

24 February 1812

Petition of Henry Taylor, owner of a Halifax distillery, asking the House to remit the duties on sugar long since imported from the West Indies, so that he may distill it into rum. Unless the duties are removed there is no possibility of the sugar being sold.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 18 number 42