4 July 1804

Report of committee on expenditures for roads and bridges. 10 pp.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 30

4 July 1804

Payment to Joseph N. Bond of 7 pounds 10 shillings for services as a commissioner in expending the sum of 255 pounds in building a bridge over Tusket River.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 31

5 July 1804

Summary of resolutions for road payments

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 32

5 July 1804

Resolutions for road expenditures, for compensation to road commissioners.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 33

6 July 1804

List of ships visited by the two health officers for the Port of Shelburne 1803 and 1804. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 34

6 July 1804

Report of committee on accounts of health officers for Lunenburg and Halifax, recommending that they be paid according to their accounts. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 35

6 July 1804

Resolutions for payments of commissioners and rebuilding of roads and bridges.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 36

10 July 1804

Petition of Winckworth Tonge for compensation for damages to his land through the running of the new Ardoise Hill road. Overleaf. Referred to John McMonagle and Shubael Dimock. £30 granted 11 Jan. 1806.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 37

7 July 1804

Report for the Commissioners for managing the affairs of the Establishment on Sable Island.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 38

7 July 1804

Report of committee of House on the petition of James Ratchford and James Noble Shannon, recommending that it be granted, and imposing conditions of sailing times and charges for the Parrsboro Packet. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 39

9 July 1804

Account of commissioners for building the new Government House. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 40

10 July 1804

Petition for the Grand Jury of the Town and County of Halifax regarding Old Market House being a nuisance

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 41

10 July 1804

Petition of Andrew Miller and other inhabitants living on the Windsor Road. They have lived on their tracts of land nearly thirty years, and have improved them but not wholly complied with the terms of grants. Having been present at a court where a tract of land was escheated for non-performance of the conditions, the petitioners "being aware that the whole of the Lands upon the said Road are equally Liable to be Escheated should the same be prosecuted, whereby your Petitioners might be Reduced to distress and beggary, as it is Impossible to perform the Conditions upon which the same were granted Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray this Honourable House to take the Precarious Situations of your Petitioners into the considerations and afford them such Relief as…shall seem meet." Signed with 13 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 42

10 July 1804

Resolve to stop prosecution of Nathaniel Smith, and Ludowick Hunter respecing their contract for making the new road round Ardoise Hill. Upon paying of the cost of such prosecution and entering into Bond for £500.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 43

12 July 1804

Message from the Council to the House, on receipt of 62 road votes from the House. "…they find it impossible for them to determine consistent with any Information they can receive during the present Session how far it will conduce to the General Interest of the Province to distribute the Sum to be granted for that service in the manner proposed by the House…" (Which was the customary method in Nova Scotia). For amplification of the Council’s views see Message to the House, 21 July.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 44