This Act continues and amends several acts relating to raising revenue, including acts regarding impost and excise duties, and relating to the number of collectors in each county and their salaries. This Act is to remain in force until July 1792.
This Act amends the 1760 Acts, "An Act for establishing a public Market House in Halifax, and for regulating the same," and "An Act for building a public Slaughter House in the Town of Halifax, and for regulating the same," relating to how individuals, their servants, or their agents, are permitted to bring livestock into Halifax to butcher and sell. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791.
This Act continues and amends several acts relating to licenses for persons retailing liquor and introduces a license for persons retailing gunpowder. The rates of duties on these licenses are described as well as penalties for persons found to be in defiance of this Act. This also discontinues the practice of allowing Justices to give licenses away for free or for a lower rate than proscribed by this Act. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791.
This Act revives several acts relating to import and excise duties, including “An Act for the more effectually raising a Revenue within this Province, for the Support of its Government,” which had recently expired. The Act also outlines some amendments, including the rates of duties on wines, sugar, beer, and teas. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791.
This act continues several past act specifying duties and taxes to be charged on wine, spirits, and molasses, and amends some of the rules concerning who is liable to pay these duties as well as who is responsible for collecting them.
This act places a ten percent tax on all items being imported from the United States, and directs the money collected from this tax to support the poor of the province.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1762, which set various regulations on how fish could be exported, including the regulations on the barrels it is to be shipped in.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1763, which placed a regulatory weight on beef, pork, flour, biscuit, and ship-bread being sold by the barrel in the province.
This Act amends the rate at which market stalls can be rented from eight pounds per annum to whatever the Justices in their sessions for the county of Halifax determine to be a fit price.