17 June 1804

Resolutions of House granting petitions for money.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 60

17 July 1804

Resolution of the House for granting £400 to be drawn if necessary by the Governor for the repair of roads and bridges in case of unforeseen accident to any of them. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 61

18 July 1804

Petition of John Newton to the Lt.-Governor, stating that he has held the office of one of the Collectors of Impost and Excise for Halifax since 1758, and is too old to continue in it; he asks that some provision be made for him, and his large family. Signed. Message from the Governor to House, recommending that House make Mr. Newton some permanent allowance.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 62

18 July 1804

Report of the committee on the petition of James Ewing and other Halifax merchants, recommending that credit be extended three months on all bonds due, and hereafter duties be made payable in the following proportions: ¼ in 6 mos., 1/4 in 9 mos., ¼ in 12 mos., and the rest in 15 months. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 63

18 July 1804

Report of committee recommending that £15 compensation be paid to Phineas Lovett for the failure of fifteen bushels of hemp seed supplied by government and transported and planted by him.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 64

19 July 1804

Report of the committee on the accounts of the Collector of Excise at Liverpool, that it was impossible to state the accounts, due to lack of vouchers and large sums charged for drawbacks not certified by the commissioners of the revenue.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 65

19 July 1804

Resolutions of House for granting £20. 11. 8. to John Howe for stationery supplied the House and for granting £15 to Phineas Lovett.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 66

19 July 1804

Resolution recommending that John Newton, who is too old to continue as Collector of Impost and Excise, be given a permanent allowance.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 67

20 July 1804

Resolution of House recommending that credit be extended three months on all bonds due, and hereafter duties be made payable in the following proportions: 1/4 in 6 mos., 1/4 in 9 mos., 1/4 in 12 mos., and the rest in 15 months. Not agreed to.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 68

21 July 1804

Report of committee on John Archibald's petition, recommending that he be granted £29. 5. 8.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 69

21 July 1804

Part of report of the committee on the new edition of the provincial laws.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 70

21 July 1804

Report of the committee of conference with the Council on the subject of roads and bridges; (message from Council to House). If the House persist in sending each separate road vote the Council will pass only those concerning which they have information convincing them that the grant is necessary (i.e. those included by the Governor in his schedule?) and on condition that clauses 5, 6, 7, 8 of the Appropriation Bill be omitted. (The clauses referred to lay down the "mode of contracting and paying for the repair of Roads and Bridges"…and tend "in the opinion of H.M. Council to impede the Service they were meant to promote.") Council insist that a uniform rate of compensation be adopted for commissioners for the building and repairing of road all over the province. They suggest that the members of the House and Council be exempted by law for acting as commissioners. (Draft)

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 71

21 July 1804

Resolution of House for granting sum recommended to the petition of John Archibald. Agreed to by the Council.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 72

23 July 1804

Resolution passed on motion of Mr. Tonge that thanks of the House be given to Ensign Henry Torrens for saving lives from wreck off Sable Island.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 73

24 July 1804

Order that House will not "Pass any Account for the Expenditure of Money on Roads & Bridges or Vote Compensation to Commissioners unless the Account was rendered to the Treasurer of the Province before the Committee of Public Accounts shall have made their Report each Session."

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 74