Journals and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia

Each volume of the annual Journals and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia includes an index. The relevant index references to 'Indians' and 'Indian Affairs' for the years 1818 to 1852 have been extracted and are listed below. The references lead primarily to petitions directed to the Indian Commissioners and to annual reports of the Commissioners, plus related appendices.

The appropriate microfilm retrieval numbers for these annual JHA volumes are 3528 (1800-1818), 3529 (1819-1832), 3530 (1832-1838), 3531 (1838-1842), 3532 (1843-1846), 3533 (1847-1849) and 3534 (1849-1852).

Indexed under "Indians"...

•  Volume XII 1815 - 1818 


•  Volume XIII 1819-1820 


•  Volume XIV 1820 - 1826 


•  Volume XV 1827 - 1830 


•  Volume XVI Part 1st - 1830 


•  Volume XVI Part 2nd - 1832 


•  Volume XVI Part 3rd - 1833 


•  Volume XVI Part 4th - 1834 


•  Volume XVI Part 5th - 1834 - 1835 


•  Volume XVI Part 6th - 1836 


•  Volume XVII Part 1st - 1837 


•  Volume XVII Part 2nd - 1838 


•  Volume XVII Part 3rd - 1839 


•  Volume XVII Part 4th - 1840  


•  Volume XVIII Part 1st - 1841 


•  Volume XVIII Part 2nd - 1842 


•  Volume XVIII Part 3rd - 1843 


•  Volume XIX Part 2nd - 1845 


•  Volume XIX Part 3rd - 1846 


•  Volume XIX Part 4th - 1847 



Page 545
Ordered that Mr. Howe, Mr. Brenan, Mr. Hall, Mr. DesBarres, and Mr. Owen be a Select Committee to consider and report upon all matters connected with Indian Affairs.

581
Judge Wilkins' order for nine pounds fifteen shillings for "relief of Indians, and a letter from Rev. L. Byrne, requesting assistance for Indians" is referred to the Committee on Indians Affairs.

638
Mr. Howe reported from the Select Committee on Indian Affairs.

Appendix no. 57
The Committee to whom were referred the papers and accounts connected with Indian Affairs regret to inform that, "peculiar circumstances arising out of the prevalence among the Indians of a malignant disease, have lead to an increased and very heavy expenditure, far beyond the sum usually voted." Includes an abstract of expenditures in 1846, plus expenses incurred, with the sanction of the Lt-Gov., in relieving the severe illness, in addition to the three hundred pound grant. Also includes urgent applications for immediate relief for Sydney and Digby. In the "Report of the Select Committee last year, it was suggested that a Commissioner…should be appointed in NS proper who would;" the Committee this year feels the want of that Commissioner. Education has little advanced. Trespassers have not been dislodged. No specific Mi'kmaq people named.
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Appendix no. 15
An account, with vouchers, of expenditures made of the "sum granted by the legislature for the benefit if the Indians of" Cape Breton. They have the "satisfaction of stating that in the face of the unlooked for obstacle presented by the almost universal failure throughout the country of the crop…the agricultural industry of the Indians is still advancing." The "Indians themselves deputed their chief man to make known their destitution and the imminent risk of their perishing of want before the winter should pass away."
See also page 562.

Committees , Select, Appointed on General Subjects, viz: ...Indian Affairs...

Petition no. 3
For expenses "of Sick Indians" from Overseers:
Horton, 551
Dr. Leslie, Annapolis, 557
Dr. Syda, Digby, 558
Dr. Ruggles, Weymouth, 576
William Nicholl, Hillsburgh, 577
Dr. Steverman, Lunenburg, 582
Dr. Debrisay, Dartmouth, 590
Dr. Farish, Yarmouth, 590
Dr. Page, Amherst, 620
Of Dr. Tupper, for expenses "of seamen and Indians" in Cumberland, referred to Committee on Transient Paupers, 570.

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•  Volume XX Part 1st - 1848 


•  Volume XX Part 2nd - 1849 


•  Volume XX Part 3rd - 1850 


•  Volume XX Part 4th - 1851 


•  Volume XX1 Part 1st - 1851 Session 2nd and 1852 



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