11 February 1819

Speech of Lieutenant Governor Dalhousie on opening the first session of new Assembly in the new Province Building. Signed. Enclosure: No. 12 Order-in-Council opening Halifax as partially free port.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 9

13 April 1819

Draft of address of Assembly to Lieutenant Governor, thanking him for his action re: founding of a college.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 10

16 February 1819

Message from Lieutenant Governor to Assembly, transmitting copies of letters showing his plans re: founding college. Enclosures: Vol. 305 No. 107 Dalhousie to Bathurst, No. 108 Bathurst to Dalhousie.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 11

27 May 1818

Copy. Order-in-Council allowing importation of various articles (timber, livestock, food, grain, shipping stores fruit, tobacco) into Halifax and Saint John, in British vessels or foreign vessels which carry only produce of their own countries; allowing exportation from these ports of same articles and other produce and imported articles in British build and navigated ships or foreign vessels belonging to the country for which the goods are intended.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 12

16 February 1819

Message from Lieutenant Governor to Assembly, submitting scheme of altering militia laws. Signed. Enclosure: No. 14 Scheme re: militia.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 13

16 February 1819

Lieutenant Governor Dalhousie's plan for an effective militia. (Enclosed in No. 13)

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 14

16 April 1819

Copy. Joint address of Council and Assembly to Lieutenant Governor explaining the reasons for passing Bill for regulating marriages and granting marriage licenses. Object of Bill is "to preserve the License now in use for the clergy of the established church and to authorize your Excellency in your capacity as Governor to grant a License to Dissenters which will relieve them from the penalty imposed by the Law of the Province." Bill is generally wanted throughout province.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 15

1819

List of succeeding despatches (Nos. 18 to 24 inclusive)

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 16

8 November 1819

Draft of letter from Mr. Speaker Robie to Lieutenant Governor Dalhousie, asking for a writ for election of member in place of Edward Mortimer, deceased.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 17

27 April 1819

Copy. Bathurst to Dalhousie. In receipt of despatch transmitting address of condolence from Council and Assembly to Regent on death of the Queen.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 18

28 June 1819

Copy of letter from Mr. Speaker Robie transmitting copies of Report of Council and Assembly on Anglo-American Convention, to the Speakers of the Assemblies of Lower Canada, Upper Canada, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. "This Convention is deemed so injurious to the interests of all the North American Colonies, that it is hoped that their respective Legislative Bodies will take the subject into serious consideration and unite with the Assembly of this Province in bringing the same before His Majesty's Government, that if possible measures may be adopted to prevent or at least to diminish the Evils that must result from a Treaty in which the Interests and Situation of British America have been but little attended of understood." He asks that Speakers submit Report and accompanying papers to their respective Assemblies and communicate their opinions to him.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 19

7 April 1819

N. Atcheson to Blowers and Robie, transmitting Parliamentary Acts. No intimation of altering timber duties "The Publication of the last Treaty with the United States in viewed here with astonishment and regret. It is believed that a serious discussion will take place on it in Parliament after the Easter Holidays." Signed.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 20

5 July 1819

N. Atcheson to Blowers and Robie. He will send printed Acts by earliest ship. Comments on Customs Duty Act. He hopes exemption of Naval Timber from duty may be obtained next year. His application that indulgences gained by Newfoundland trade be extended to British North American provinces has failed. Enclosures: No. 22 Atcheson to Bathurst, No. 23 Bainbridge to Atcheson.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 21

17 June 1819

Copy. Atcheson to Bathurst, submitting "the Justice and expediency of extending the same Exemptions and Bounties" (as are about to be granted to Newfoundland) "to the Inhabitants of Lower Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, who are concerned in the Fisheries of those Settlements, and who under the circumstances of the late Treaty with the United States, are likely to be more extensively injured than those of Newfoundland." (Enclosed in No. 21)

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 22

5 July 1819

Copy. John Bainbridge to N. Atcheson, asking him to advise Committees of the province of extension of Act of Exemption to include all timber cut in winter of 1819. Enclosed.

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 306 number 23