15 December 1809

Accounts of the expenses attending the trial of John Kelly.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 82

15 December 1809

Draft resolution for granting £250 for extending a pier at "Arisack Point", when the Lt.-Governor will make the necessary grant of the land which the pier would cover. (See petition of A. McDonald and others).

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 83

15 December 1809

Nineteen votes of the House for resolutions for granting bounties on wheat grown, for roads and bridges, drawbacks and various services.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 84

15 December 1809

Resolution for granting bounties on wheat grown on new land to John Parker and others.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 85

16 December 1809

Draft of four resolutions for granting £25 to Denison Canady, who became deranged while in militia service, for repairs to the bridge over Ardoise River on the old road to Halifax, for further measures for appointing a special agent for the province, and for £1500 to be granted and paid to Commissioners appointed for purchasing materials for building a Province House.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 86

16 December 1809

Twelve resolutions for granting sums for various services.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 87

16 December 1809

Two resolutions recommending that a pier be built at Arisack [Arisaig] Point on the south shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and for providing a sum for any unforeseen accident happening to any of the bridges on the public roads of the province.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 88

17 December 1809

Three resolutions granting sums for repair of roads and bridges.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 16 number 89

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