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Tenders
RG 24 volumes 11-12 · Series · 1851-1859
Part of Nova Scotia Post Office

Forms part of Nova Scotia Post Office and consists of public calls for tenders on the conveyance of the mail between postal stations.

Specifications
Series · 1860
Part of Halifax School for the Blind

Series forms part of Halifax School for the Blind fonds and consists of a typescript copy of specifications for the school, providing physical requirements, materials used, and equipment needed.

Schools and school lands
Series · 1813 - 1861
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to schools and school lands in Nova Scotia. Includes school returns, 1813-1840, and a petition from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 31 July 1850, containing a complete history of school lands in Nova Scotia, 1749-1850 (volume 438, document 58).

Census and poll tax
RG 1 volumes 443-454 · Series · 1767-1862
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

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.

Revised Statutes
RG 5 Series RS · Series · 1851, 1864
Part of Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Forms part of Nova Scotia House of Assembly and consists of draft chapters of the first (1851) and third (1864) editions of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia.

Series · 1751 - 1866
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

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.

Mines and minerals
Series · 1800 - 1868
Part of Commissioner of Public 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.

City of Halifax
Series · 1749 - 1869
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

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.

Railway and telegraph papers
Series · 1835 - 1870
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the construction, maintenance and operations of early railways in Nova Scotia. Includes accounts of expenditure, Nova Scotia Railway, January 1856-September 1857.

Bliss family
MG 1 volumes 1597-1604 · Fonds · 1749-1920 (predominant 1810-1872)

Fonds consists of correspondence and other records created and accumulated by four generations of the Bliss family, most of which relate to Henry Bliss. Includes letters written to Henry by his brothers Lewis and William Blowers beginning at King's College, Windsor, and continuing almost until their deaths. Letters discuss personal and family news, leisure and business activities, and local and international events. Also includes letters written to Henry from other family members, friends, and business acquaintances, and letters to his business associates including Jack Brown and Robert Gordon. Also contains correspondence received by Lewis and William Blowers Bliss, mostly from Henry Bliss, assorted correspondence between Bliss family members, journals, diaries, legal and financial records, literary manuscripts, certificates, notes and charts on Bliss family geneaology, newspaper clippings, broadsheets and other ephemera. Other family members and individuals represented in the fonds include Jonathan Bliss, wife Mary (Worthington) Bliss, William Blowers Bliss II and wife Emily (Steen) Bliss, Sarah (Anderson) Bliss, Sampson Salter Blowers, and related families Binney, Odell, Dwight.

Bliss (family)