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Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of a 372-page index to crown land grants, 1718-1765. Index divided into five sections, each section having its own alphabetical arrangement, with names in chronological order: 1718-1749 (page 6), 1759-1760 (page 54), 1759-1763 (page 114), 1761-1763 (page 170) and 1763-1765 (page 222). Gives grantee's name, number of acres and district, date of grant and page in register.

Forms part of Department of Lands and Forests and consists of land grant registration books containing official copies of land grants given by the Government or Crown to settlers in Nova Scotia. The books were used to record Crown copies of land grants as they were issued by the Crown to applicants.

Each land grant recorded in the books identifies the individuals receiving the land and provides the boundary description of the plot as well as the amount of land granted. In many instances grants were made to a number of individuals as part of a common land grant made to a township, or to individuals with some common connection, such as disbanded soldiers. In such cases the grants may not identify the precise location or amount of land received by each person. Additionally while early grants in the 18th century may not include a map showing the location of the grant, later land grants generally include a plot plan.

Each book usually has an internal index. There is also a master index created by the Department and available on microfilm. The index is organized by name of grantee and gives the year of the grant, the acreage of the grant and a reference to the page of the land grant book. The books have been labelled in three systems during the time period from 1730 to 1958 and the time periods for each system overlap to some extent. Generally books designated as "old books" date from the 18th century (1700s); "letter books" are generally before 1847 and "new books" date from 1847 to 1958.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of original documents, copies of documents, and lists, indexes and calendars of documents. Includes a memorial (ca. 1748) on the preservation of Nova Scotia by William Bollan, agent for the province of Massachusetts Bay, addressed to Secretary of State the Duke of Bedford; a five-part catalogue of manuscript documents arranged under the direction of T.B. Akins, 1861; Akins's transcription of the "Mess Book" (passenger list of settlers who came to Chebucto with Governor Cornwalllis in June 1749); some 35 miscellaneous documents, 1744-1852, collected by Akins but never arranged or described (includes letters of General Amherst to Governor Lawrence, and of Colonel Mascarene from Annapolis Royal); a copy of Beamish Murdoch's History of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie annotated by William John Stirling; some 62 miscellaneous documents, 1751-1836, collected by Akins but never calendared (list accompanying); a collection of autographs of various Nova Scotia governors and officials; carbon copies of typewritten transcripts of mould-infested documents elsewhere in RG 1; an index to the secretary of state's dispatches, 1750-1845, prepared by T.B. Akins; a manuscript book written in Mi'kmaq; indexes to the journals of the House of Assembly, 1802-1826; rough copies of the minutes of Council, 1804-1815; and rules and orders of the House of Assembly, 1783-1821 (same book, in reverse, contains clerk and speaker's letter-book, 1819-1845).

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of the Supreme Court, Court of Chancery, County Court/Inferior Court of Common Pleas and Court of Vice-Admiralty. The Admiralty court records include letters of agency, 1776-1821; proceedings, 1749-1813; and lists of vessels captured, 1793-1818.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the town (1749-1841) and city (from 1841) of Halifax. Includes letters, memorials, petitions, accounts and records relating to lands, streets, public buildings, military property, companies, officials, police, bridewell and poorhouse (also Shubenacadie Canal papers, 1797-1858); the 1752 census; and reports of monthly meetings and visitations by the commissioners of the provincial penitentiary board to the Halifax city prison (Rockhead), 1844-1852.

Forms part of the Department of Lands and Forests and consists of maps detailing the boundaries of lands granted to settlers by the crown and crown-owned lands in Nova Scotia.

Also includes an index map, which divides the province into a grid and gives each section a reference letter and number. Arranged by index number.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the administration of Mi'kmaw affairs in Nova Scotia. Includes Joseph Howe's letter book as commissioner for Indian Affairs, 1841-1843.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of documents selected from the records of the lower house of Nova Scotia's now unicameral legislature. Includes petitions, memorials, governor's speeches and addresses in reply, messages, resolutions, protests, reports, returns, estimates etc. relating to highways, and documents sent down from the Legislative Council.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of provincial treasurer's accounts. Includes a volume of accounts of impost, excise and lighthouse duties and fees, 1776-1780.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the first British settlements on the Saint John River and other parts of New Brunswick; also to laying out and building the town of Saint John (formerly Parrtown), 1783-1785.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of Nova Scotia population returns (both statistical and nominal), 1767-1860; assessment rolls (poll or capitation tax), mainly 1790-1796; and returns of livestock, 1798-1817. No pre-1838 census, nor the 1851 census, survives intact. Includes, as volume 454, Report of the Secretary of the Board of Statistics on the Census of Nova Scotia, 1861 (Halifax: Queen's Printer, 1862), 298 pages.

Forms part of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and consists of proclamations (1771, 1801-1865), printed circulars (1856-1866), telegraph book (1866-1867), Government House official visitor and guest records (1873-1968), Government House household expense records (1951-1954), and books of condolence opened on the occasion of the death of the Princess of Wales (1997).

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records kept by the receiver general of quit rents in Nova Scotia.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of mainly of records relating to the government of Cape Breton as a colony separate from Nova Scotia, 1784-1820. Includes dispatches from the secretary of state to the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton; minutes of HM Council; duplicate or draft minutes of Council, minutes of the English Privy Council, royal warrants, petitions and memorials; correspondence of Lieutenant Governors DesBarres, Macarmick and others, copies of Council minutes (October 1787-October 1788), and a description of the Island of Cape Breton and its dependencies [1787?]; imperial orders in Council, royal instructions, parliamentary estimates and grants for the civil establishment, census returns and acts of parliament relating to Cape Breton; petitions, memorials, addresses, letters, depositions as to complaints, judicial proceedings, drafts of acts, lists of ordinances, records of escheat, road appropriations and tickets of location for land; and letter-book copies of letters from the provincial secretary (Sir Rupert D. George) to officials and others in Cape Breton, chiefly relating to land grants.

Forms part of Nova Scotia House of Assembly and consists of copies of Bills introduced to the House for debate, and registers recording the titles and the dates on which the Bills were debated. Bills become Acts when passed by a majority of the House. Acts are also known as Laws or Statutes.

Forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the Nova Scotia Militia and Military telegraphy.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the Church of England (Anglican) in Nova Scotia, the Church of Scotland, school lands and glebes and the University of King's College. Includes register of lieutenant governor's inductions of Church of England clergy into parishes in Nova Scotia, 1852-1873 and contemporaneous copies of government correspondence and other printed and manuscript documents relating to the Church of England in the colonies, 1855-1865.

Forms part of Nova Scotia Legislative Council and consists of journals and minutes of legislative proceedings. Includes corrected drafts and primary copies.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of firewards and fire protection companies in Halifax. Includes minutes of meetings of firewards (fire wardens), 1804-1853; minute-books and other records of the Union [Fire] Engine Company, 1789-1807, 1826-1861; and the Union Fire Protection Company, 1861-1917; records of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, 1802-1821; and records of the Axe Fire Company, 1813-1861.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to Black immigration and settlement in Nova Scotia from the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to the final emancipation of slaves in 1838.

Series forms part of Supreme Court on county circuit sous-fonds and consists of case files that contain summonses, subpoenas, affidavits, briefs, exhibits (documentary evidence), pleadings, informations (charges), indictments, motions, orders, transcripts of testimony, appeals, motion orders, rulings, verdicts, and other material relating to civil actions and matters, as well as criminal prosecutions.

Forms part of Nova Scotia Legislative Council and consists of petitions, committee reports, draft resolutions, correspondence (of the president of the Council), memorials, speech drafts, addresses to the lieutenant governor and replies, Orders in Council, proposed amendments and bills. Aso includes housekeeping records.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to mines (coal, gold, iron) and minerals (gold). Includes claims for mining leases, 1861-1865 and plans and surveys of mining areas in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, surveyed or granted between 1859 and 1863.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the University of King's College, especially its establishment, incorporation and proposed union with Dalhousie University in 1823-1824 and 1829-1836.