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Petition dated 29 Jan 1838 from the inhabitants of Morristown and Cape George to the Honourable House of Assembly. Requesting that some of the fees associated with Constables coming out to collect on unpaid loans be reduced. Due to bad crops and hardships more residents were facing lawsuits for unpaid loans and the added fees added by the collecting Constables was too much of a hardship.
29 Jan 1838
To the Honourable the house of assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia
The Petition of the inhabitants of Morristown and Cape George whose names are hereunto ??? Humbly showeth.
That a number of your petitioners being poor persons, and in consequence of the failure of crops and other causes are often sued for small debts, and that costs of suit being often greater than principle in consequence of Constable fees being at the rate of three pence per mile backwards & forwards, Your Petitioners pray that an act be proposed by which the fees of Constables shall be only three pence per file for travelling forward only which has been the practice here for more than fifty years and which your petitioners deem an ample compensation in most cases. Your petitioners pray that the Honourable the House of Assembly will take this petition into favourable consideration as your petitioners as in duty bound will over pray.