1860

Petition, Eleazer Honihan, 70, native of England, residing at Westchester for forty years, asks for a grant to search for minerals on his land.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 55

21 August 1860

Petition, Charles d'Entremont, Pubnico, asking compensation for his schooner which was run into by H.M.S. 'Styx' near Shelburne.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 56

18 August 1860

Petition of the Great Ship Co., London, requesting the release of the Great Eastern, being held in Halifax.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 57

1861

Petition, Benjamin Dodge, Health Officer, Bridgetown, asking for reimbursement for œ5 spent on a small pox victim.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 58

20 February 1863

Petition, Alexander Munro, New Brunswick, asking that the Lieutenant Governor buys some copies of his book, 'Statistics of British North America.'

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 59

24 November 1863

Petition of Amos Black and his wife, Lower Horton, employed at the Provincial Hospital for the Insane, but complaints they were let go after the provincial election.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 60

1863

Petition, James Morehouse, Trout Cove, Digby County, asking for payment for services rendered.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 61

15 June 1864

Petition, Peter Brouard, Port Hawkesbury, Customs Officer, asking for an increase in pay.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 62

15 March 1864

Petition, magistrates and others of Bridgetown, asking that a reward be posted for 'incendiaries' who destroyed the Town Stables.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 63

9 March 1865

Petition, Henry Peech, Canso, seeking a grant for the placing of buoys in Cape Canso Harbour.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 64

24 July 1865

Petition, Johanna Herbert, Dartmouth, asking for compensation for damage caused to her property by faulty drainage from the Provincial Insane Asylum.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 65

24 September 1867

Petition, James Hanson, Halifax, who leased land at Port Needham as a pasture for his cattler but was being bothered by the volunteer militia who insist on using the area for rifle practice.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 66

12 October 1867

Petition, Alexander Cameron, Baddeck, asking for compensation for time he served as Registrar of Deeds for Victoria County.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 67

22 October 1867

Petition, Peter Morrisey, Halifax, Brewer, asking exemption from tax on brewing as his grandson let most of the malt go sour. Morrisey had been a brewer for 40 years.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 68

2 July 1869

Petition, workers who quarried stone for the new Provincial Building, for George Lang, mostly from Pictou County, asking for payment for work done.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 6 number 69