At a Court of Quarter Sessions, held at Halifax, in June term of this
year, the Sheriff, pursuant to law and by virtue of a warrant directed
to him by the Justices of the Sessions, to lay out a road in the north
suburbs of the town, reported that he had laid out the road by a jury,
in the manner following, viz:--Beginning at the north-east corner or
angle of Lot No. 2, on the road leading from the Dockyard to the Naval
Hospital; thence to run north 28 west, 40 feet; thence north, 59 east,
238 feet, which leaves a road of 40 feet wide, between Allbright's
ground and the Hospital fence; thence north, 28 west, 660 feet; thence
north 20 west, 664 feet to the road leading to Fort Needham, leaving the
road 50 feet wide between the shore at the Narrows at high-water mark,
and the Lots Nos. 3 and 4. This notice was published, that all persons
who might think themselves aggrieved by the laying out of the road might
have an opportunity of being heard before the sessions, on Tuesday, the
5th September, 1790. It was signed by Thomas Wood, Clerk of the Peace.
This road was intended as a continuation of Water Street northward, to
meet the road which leads up from the water to Fort Needham, but it does
not appear to have been on the line of the present road, but to have
gone through the northern end of the Hospital grounds, along the water
side, below the site of the old magazines.
At the session of the House of Assembly in 1790, several articles of
impeachment against the Judges of the Supreme Court, as before
mentioned, passed the House, which were laid before the Executive
Council by the Governor, on 7th April. It was proposed to suspend Chief
Justice Deschamps and Judge James Brenton, in conformity with the
request of the Assembly.
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