An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the forty-eighth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to impose and appropriate an additional Duty on all Wine hereafter to be imported into this Province.”

  • Province
    Nova Scotia (1758-1825**)
  • Chapter
    55 George III – Chapter 10
  • Year
    1815
  • Concepts
    Government Revenue
    Welfare
  • Jurisdictional Relevance
    Private
  • Number of Articles
    1
  • Description
    An amendment to an act first passed in 1808, imposes a further duty of six pence per gallon of wine imported into the province in order to pay an annual pension of five hundred pounds to Sir John Wentworth, former Lieutenant-Governor, for his lifetime. The amendment relates to the manner in which this duty is collected.
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