This act revives an act first passed in 1775, which prohibited the transportation of gunpowder, arms, and salt petre except for the express use of the King's troops, or by special license issued by the Governor General, due to the war with the American colonies.
Three commissioners are to be appointed in each county under this Act to take accounts of losses sustained by the depredations of the enemy during the late war. The processes by which this is to be done are outlined.
This article provides for the transfer of offenders accused of crimes considered too dangerous for county jails to Halifax, such as treason, for as long as the American revolution should continue.
A continuation of an act first passed in 1775 which prohibits the transportation of gunpowder, arms, and salt petre except for the express use of the King's troops, or by special license issued by the Governor General, due to the war with the American colonies.
This act imposes harsher penalties on inciting seamen and soldiers to desert, or hiding and harbouring seamen and soldiers once they have deserted. The harsher penalties were to remain in place until the end of the rebellion in the American colonies.
This act places a tax on residents of the province in order to raise a militia to defend the colony against the uprising occurring in the south (the American Revolution) and to protect against any possible incursion of American troops into Nova Scotia.
This act allows for the settlement of refugees from the American revolution who are loyal to the British crown (otherwise known as "loyalists") in Nova Scotia.
This act prohibits the transportation of gunpowder, arms, and salt petre except for the express use of the King's troops, or by special license issued by the Governor General, due to the war with the American colonies.