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The office of Toll Collector was created in 1782 by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as part of legislation to construct a toll gate on the Halifax to Windsor Road. The purpose was to collect fees from travelers in order to defray the cost of highway construction and maintenance. The Toll Collector received 10% of the total monies collected as payment. The first gate was built at a site known as Pigot’s Farm in Hants County and began operation in August 1782. James Lockhart was appointed the first Toll Collector. In October 1782 an anonymous group vandalized the gate and it ceased operation. The Government offered a £20 reward for any information about the guilty person(s) but no one was ever charged. The Government tried again in 1785 with two more toll gates but the public was so against this idea, the office and the gates were abolished after 1787.
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created 2015/08/19, Karen White
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Transportation and Communication in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815 by A. Tanner Smith (Halifax, NS: Dalhousie University thesis, 1936).
History of the Highways of Nova Scotia by W.R. Bird (no place: no publisher, 1942?).