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18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND 

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MAY 9, 1786

H-1988

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Manuscript Group 11, Colonial Office 220,
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Sessional Papers,
Minutes of Executive Council, 1786
(Transcripts of Colonial Office Records)
(M.G. 11, C.O. 220, C.B. "B", Vol. 2)
 ff. 113-117

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                                        Present
                           His Excellency the governor
                           } Richard Gibbons President }
The Honble       } Richard Sweet                     }
                           } Alex^r Haire                         } Esquires
                           } George Rodgers                  }

                                                     His

             His Excellency the Governor was pleased to call to this Board as a Member of His Majestys Council Samuel Sparrow Esq^r who being present took the Oathes prescribed by Act of  Parliament and Subscribed the Declaration likewise took the oath of a Councellor and his seat at this Board accordingly

                                  Present
                            His Excellency the governor
                            } Richard Gibbons President }
                            } Richard Sweet                     }
The Honble        } Alexander Haire                 } Esquires
                           } George Rodgers                   }
                           } Samuel Sparrow                  }

          His Excellency the Governor was pleased to nominate the Honble M^r Sparrow one His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the Island of  Cape Breton and its dependencies ....

His Excellency the Governor laid before the Board all the accounts of the Expenditure of the Public Money from the 19^th Nov^r 1784 to the 24^th March 1786 inclusive with all the Vouchers in support of the same to be Inspected examined into and audited ---

Whereupon it was moved by the Honble M^r Sparrow that a Committee be appointed to examine the said Accounts and report thereon to the Board -- Whereupon it was Unanimously resolved and ordered that ----                  

                        } Alex^r Haire         } 
The Honble    } George Rodgers   } Esquires
                       ) Samuel Sparrow  }
be a Committee for that purpose ....

[Source: National Archives of Canada, MG 16, 18, Cape Breton, B, Volume 2, May 9, 1786, pp. 113-114; RG 1, Cape Breton, Executive Council Minute Books, 1785-1820, Volume 318: Minutes of Council of the Island of Cape Breton from July 1785 to 16th July 1787. Collected and Bound by The Commission of Public Records, Halifax 1862 - Microfilm Reel PANS 15398]

C-1456

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In May 1786 Sparrow moved in Council for a Committee to examine the Accounts & report - Sparrow (Haire being absent) & Rodgers, reported - the Council approved and confirmed - this Sparrow says, may have been done ignorantly and wickedly - ...

[Source: DesBarres Papers, Series 5, M23, F 1-5, Volume 6, Accounts, 1767-1794, May 31, 1790, pp. 1195-1196]

See Also:

• Catalogue, or List of Manuscript Documents, Arranged, Bound and Catalogued under the Direction of the Commissioner of Public Records, together with a List of Books of Entry, Consisting of Minutes of His Majesty's Council , Letters, Registers of Crown Grants of Land, Commissions, Orders of Government, &c., &c. From the Year 1710 to Year 1867, Preserved in the Government Offices at Halifax, Nova Scotia .... (Halifax: D. H. Fowler & Co., 1877)
  • PAPERS OF THE ISLAND OF CAPE BRETON. Copies of Dispatches from the Lords of Trade and Plantations to the Governors of Cape Breton, between 1785 and 1820, with catalogue of contents at the end of each volume, bound in three volumes, Russia leather,—folio 3 These transcripts are from the State paper office in London. Original Minutes of His Majesty's Council in Cape I Breton,
    • p. 15 , Vol. 1, From June 1785 to July 17, 1787

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