1 December 1806

Petition of Jacob Tobias of Digby, commissioner for work on the road leading from Lee’s Mill to Rowe’s Mill in Annapolis County, asking for compensation.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 79

1 December 1806

Petition of George Johnson, Caleb Forsyth and other inhabitants of Horton and Cornwallis. They own large quantity of dyke land "and conceiving that great advantage might be derived not only to themselves but to the public at large, by diking in the same, and after due consideration they agree to undertake it and the summer before last by great exertions nearly accomplish’d the running dikes, and some of the small Abbiteaus, and the last summer undertook the large ones, but though they used every precaution and exercised their best judgement, they were so unfortunate as to lose four of their largest Abbiteaus after they were nearly compleated, two of them nearly…as Large as any one every built in the province by which misfortune your petitioners sustain’d a heavy loss of between four and five thousand pounds and far beyond the means of any of them to bear, without great injury to their families" since the dyke must be finished. Ask relief.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 80

1 December 1806

Report of joint committee on the public accounts and the Province's Account Current to the 31st October, 1806.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 81

1 December 1806

Resolution and copy for a committee to be appointed to request the Governor to provide the provincial accounts of expenditures for roads and bridges, public buildings and the island of Sable. Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 82

1 December 1806

Petition of Samuel Hart, merchant of Halifax, for a drawback for rum imported from Jamaica and attached certificate of the Custom House officer and Hart's declaration to the truth of the petition.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 83

1 December 1806

Petition of Thomas Milledge of Annapolis protesting against the election of Isaiah Shaw and enclosing the scrutiny for the polls at Granville when Shaw was elected and now objected to by Thomas Milledge.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 84

2 December 1806

Petition of Garret Miller, merchant of Halifax, protesting against the manner of the Lunenburg County election. "That your Petitioner in consequence of the riotous conduct and threats from Mr. James’ party, was induced to decline a contest which could not be continued without danger of bloodshed and most violent riots, and for the preservations of peace and order consented to close the Poll." Dismissed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 85

3 December 1806

Resolution respecting petition against seats of sitting members or proceedings at elections.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 86

4 December 1806

Report of William Sabatier, commissioner, on the Sackville bridge contract. (See John Henderson’s petition, presented 29 Nov.). Mr. Sabatier recommends that the bridge be built of rock in a place where the water is quiet instead of the place where this one was begun.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 87

4 December 1806

Advertisement for Contracts for the repair of Sackville Bridge inserted in newspaper and posted at Lawlors.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 87a

4 December 1806

Sir John Wentworth approving the offer of contract with Mr. Henderson for the Sackville Bridge repairs.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 87b

1 July 1806

Contract for building a stone arch in Sackville Bridge, signed by John Henderson and William Sabatier, drafted by Foster Hutchinson.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 87c

8 May 1806

Receipt of payment to advertise contract for repairs to Sackville Bridge, John Howe & Son

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 87d

20 July 1806

Receipt of payment for drafting articles of agreement in duplicate between William Sabatier and John Henderson, mason, for building a stone arch, Foster Hutchinson.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 87e

2 August 1806

Receipt of payment from William Sabatier as commissioner, to John Henderson for the repairs of Sackville Bridge.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 13 number 87f