16 December 1809

Five resolutions for granting certain sums for various provincial services.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 90

19 December 1809

List of Bills assented to by the Council.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 91

19 December 1809

Motion for petitioning the King and addressing the Lt.-Governor on the subject of Quit Rent. "A Committee to be Appointed to prepair an Address to his Majesty upon the Subject of the Quit Rents, Stating the Situation of the Province and praying a Suspention thereof for some years." (Note: There is no sign of this in the Journal.)

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 92

20 December 1809

Report of the joint committee apponted to investigate the public accounts and the expenditure for service of roads and bridges.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 93

20 December 1809

Resolution for granting sum to John Howe and Son for printing for government and resolution for granting sum to Clerk of Council for fuel for the session.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 94

20 December 1809

Resolution for legislature to appoint three commissioners to hire a suitable place for holding the General Assembly and fit it up for the meeting.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 95

21 December 1809

Three resolutions for granting sums for special services and for a reward offered for the capture of Edward Jordan and others concerned in the murder and piracy committed on the schooner Three Sisters.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 96

21 December 1809

Resolution of the House for granting sum to defray expense of trials of Edward and Margaret Jordan and John Kelly and the execution of Edward Jordan for piracy and felony on the high seas.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 97

22 December 1809

List of members of the House and the amount of pay owing to each. (As in Vol. 304, no. 5)

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 98

22 December 1809

Resolutions for declaring the seat of John Bolman for the Town of Lunenburg vacant for non-attendance, and to take the usual steps for procuring a writ for the election of a new Member. Draft of resolution for the Clerk to make a correct index of and bind the Journals of the House of Assembly to the present time.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 99

1809

Motion regarding the petition of six hundred inhabitants of the Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, stating the inconvenience and danger of having no harbour nearer than the Bay of Antigonish, and suggesting that a pier be built, with their assistance, at Arisaig Point.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 100

19 January 1810

William Minns' account for stationary supplied to the House of Assembly and Commissioners of the Revenue.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 101

18 June 1810

Account of Jones Fawson, Sherriff of Halifax, for supplies to John Kelly, a provincial prisoner.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 102

31 August 1810

Petition of John Parker and other inhabitants of Petit, asking for a grant to help them make a road from Petit settlement to the main road at the north side of the Kennetcook River. The petitioners promise each a sum of money or its equivalent in day labour on the road. Signed by 12 persons. Recommended by the Lt.-Governor.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 103

October 1810

Petition of Henry Moser and others, settled on the coast between Beaver Harbour and Mary Joseph, asking for a grant to help them make a road from their settlements to the main road from Sheet Harbour to Halifax. Signed with 13 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 104