Joseph Howe’s Letters To Lord John Russell. Sept. 18, 1839
…royal instructions with respect to the Legislative Council. The pack was shuffled, the game was to remain the same. The members of the majority, as I have said before, were…
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Address Of The General Congress To The Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec, Oct 26, 1774
…“a whited sepulchre,” for burying your lives, liberty and property. Your Judges, and your Legislative Council, as it is called, are dependant on your Governor, and he is dependant on the servant of the Crown, in Great-Britain. The legislative, executive and judging powers are all moved…
Selections from the public documents of the province of Nova Scotia
…said province, suspension of any of our said Councilors or otherwise there shall be a vacancy in our said Council (any five whereof we do hereby appoint to be a…
To provide for supplying the Town of Dartmouth with Water, 1876 c43
…day of April in each year, be submitted in writing to the Council, to be included in the estimates in the current year. Protection of Council &c.: 16. The Council…
Note by the Commissioner on the Sources of Land Titles in Maine
…speech to the General Court, October 20, 1785, of his Council, deprecated the movement, and the General Council, in their reply, concurred in his views. The Convention, however, assembled and…
Scottish colonial schemes, 1620-1686
…the privy council records make the opposite remark, that Virginia and all the other available colonies of that time being English, the council probably disliked the idea of trusting even…
Annual Report 1888
…by the Governor in Council to co-operate with a Committee chosen by the Council. The controlling power is still preserved in the Town Council, but it has been assumed that…
Speech on Elective Councils (Senate)
…opposed to this resolution, because, judging from the elective principle in the United States, he believes that if an elective Council were created here, it would be followed by annual…
Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations; Acadians, legislative disallowance
…1761, acknowledging the receipt of the Board’s letter of the 31st of October, 1760, inclosing the Order of the Lords of the Council, notifying the death of his late Majesty,…
Dr. Tupper’s Letter
…of thirty-three members, pledged to support Confederation, while but eight members opposed to that policy could obtain seats in the Legislative Assembly; that in the Legislative Council in that province…