13 June 1803

Report on various petitions referred to the Collectors of Imported Excise.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 32

13 June 1803

Petition of Thomas Thomson, and other inhabitants of Chester, stating the inconveniences they suffer through having to travel to Lunenburg, over extremely bad roads or fifteen miles by water, to the County Court, and praying that the Court may sit once a year in Chester, where "there is a sufficient number of Houses of Entertainment…to accommodate the Court and Suitors etc." and offering to build a Courthouse. They "farther beg that they may be granted the Privilege of having a weekly Market, Established in the Town of Chester, on such a day as may be thought most Convenient, they want of which in any Town is the Cause of many Growing evils – in the first place it makes the People under a kind of Necessity of Making bargains (as they seldom meet but) on the Sabath day, notwithstanding the existing Laws, they find Means to avoid Detection, Such habits must produce nothing but Dissoluteness in Young people and Children, who think there Can be no evil in Such practices, when they see their Parents Resort to Shops and Taverns, as Soon as they Come out to the places of Public Worship, and often Drunkennes and Quarreling ends the day. Your Memorialists are Convinced that a weekly Market would in Great Measure prevent many of the evils stated in the above, and be a means to Promote Good Order, and prove Convenient both for Town and Country." Signed with 7 names. Consideration deferred to a future day.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 33

13 June 1803

Petition of James and William Cochran for drawback of £20. 17. 4. Granted by resolution of 14 June.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 34

13 June 1803

Petition of Joseph Fennell for drawback of £47. 14. 6. on cargo bought with produce of the province but imported from the West Indies in a West Indian ship. Annexed. Bill of lading cargo and accounts of sales of NS produce. Overleaf. Certificate that duties were paid. Dismissed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 35

13 June 1803

Petition of Patrick Fitzmaurice, for compensation for over-expenditure in work on roads. Holograph. Petition granted.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 36

13 June 1803

Petition of Charles Hill and Co. for drawback of £34. 2. 1. paid on rum entered at Halifax but shipped, by the same conveyance that brought it, to Quebec. Overleaf. Certificate that duties were paid. Dismissed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 37

13 June 1803

Report of committee on sums necessary for the services of the province for the present year. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 38

14 June 1803

Account of expenditure for repairing road from Windsor Road to Shubenacadie Bridge.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 39

14 June 1803

Account of expenditure for repairing road from Windsor Road to Shubenacadie Bridge.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 40

14 June 1803

Three resolutions for compensation to petitioners William Burk, James and William Cochran and Seth Coffin.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 41

14 June 1803

Resolution for compensation to petitioners who lost in a fire while working on the roads. Rejected.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 42

15 June 1803

Petition of the Magistrates of Queen’s County, asking on behalf of the inhabitants, £100 for repairing the road from Liverpool road leading to Port Medway. Signed with 5 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 43

16 June 1803

Petition of the church wardens of St. Paul’s asking for a bill to allow them to dispose of the old parsonage and build a suitable house for the Rector. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 44

16 June 1803

Report of the committee on the accounts for the Sable Island establishment. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 45

18 June 1803

Petition of Jonathan Palmer of Westchester, asking compensation for articles lost through fire and theft while he was working on the Londonderry to Cumberland road. Approved by Governor.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 10 number 46