12 July 1804

Draft 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 45

12 July 1804

Message from Assembly in answer to Council’s message; the House is determined to adhere to the customary method of granting and applying money for the service of roads and bridges.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 46

12 July 1804

Draft message from Assembly in answer to Council’s message; the House is determined to adhere to the customary method of granting and applying money for the service of roads and bridges.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 47

12 July 1804

Message from House to Council in answer to Council’s message; the House is determined to adhere to the customary method of granting and applying money for the service of roads and bridges. List of those in agreement and against.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 48

12 July 1804

Report of Committee recommending that Thomas Crowell and Joseph Prescott, health officers for Shelburne be compensated.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 49

13 June 1804

Report of the committee on accounts for repairs for the old government House. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 50

13 July 1804

Report of committee to inquire whether the Collectors of Import and Excise had given bonds and for what amount. List of bonds and sureties given by the collectors throughout the province, dating from 1785 to 1804, for the performance of their duties. No bonds for the collectors at Pictou, Annapolis, Sydney or Yarmouth. Signed. (Bonds were £500 or £1000).

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 51

14 July 1804

Petition of Samuel Sheldon Pool, asking compensation for attending a special court of Oyer and Terminer at Shelburne for the trial of Samuel Andrews and others for the supposed murder of a Negro girl, at a time when his domestic concerns demanded his attention. Signed. Recommended by the Governor. Overleaf. "£7. 10. 0. granted."

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 52

14 July 1804

Message from the Governor to the House enclosing schedule of road appropriations. "That the House of Assembly may have as much information as can be now afforded on the subject of Roads and Bridges I send them certified under the hand of the Secretary a schedule of such as appear to me to require to be built or repaired, amounting to the sum of Three Thousand two Hundred Pounds inclusive of the last Contingent sum therein, which Contingent Sum may be referred to in the Vote in case the said aggregate sum shall be granted; and which I trust be deemed a sufficient security for the due expenditure thereof." Signed. Enclosed. Schedule of appropriation of the Sum recommended by His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor to the Assembly to be provided for the present Session, for making and repairing Roads and Bridges throughout the province.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 53

14 July 1804

Request for information for His Majesty's Council about the roads and bridges

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 54

14 July 1804

Petition of James Ewing and other merchants of Halifax, stating the burdens which the war has imposed on provincial trade with Great Britain and the West Indies, asking for an extension of the time allowed for the payment of the duties, and for an alteration in the conditions of bonds to allow more time for their payment hereafter. Signed by 23 merchants.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 55

14 July 1804

Resolution that the clerk inform the Council of the need of their returning the revenue bills. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 56

16 July 1804

Account of the expenditure of the licence duty collected in Halifax town under the Lt.-Governor’s orders. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 57

16 July 1804

Draft answer from the House in reply to the Governor's Message. They thank the Governor for the information contained in the forgoing message, and state that "previous to receiving that Message" they "had voted sums of Money for the repairing of Roads and Bridges in which the most of the sums contained in Your Excellency’s intended distribution were included" and that those votes "have been sent to His Majesty’s Council for their Concurrence and now remain with them." Another paragraph of the same tenor as their message to Council is added, but was omitted in final message, for which see Assembly Journal p. 42.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 58

17 July 1804

Report of committee on compensation to be granted to road commissioners for their services. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 59