Township Records at the Nova Scotia Archives

Printed resolution of the Council regulating the electing and convening of the first general assembly. Sixteen representatives for the province at large, four for Halifax, two for Lunenburg. The limits of these townships; provisions for representing future townships. Qualifications of representatives and electors; rules for giving oaths and the Test, and for polling. These resolutions to govern all election meetings. Signed.

Date: 20 May 1758

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 301 no. 1