Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act further to continue, for a limited time, and amend An Act passed in the forty-third year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for the better preservation of His Majesty’s Government as by Law happily established in this Province.” (21st March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 7 | 1811 | An Act to continue the Act passed in 1803 for a limited time. The Act allows individuals suspected of treason or treasonable activities to be detained without bail or a trial while this Act is in effect. The Act is amended to provide that it shall not be construed to restrain the Provincial Parliament or imprison/detain any Member of either the House of Commons or House of Assembly without the House's consent. This Act and the Act it extends may be altered, amended or repealed at any time during the present Session of the Provincial Parliament, and is set to expire in 1812. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the forty-eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to explain, amend, and reduce to one Act of Parliament, the several Laws now in being, for the raising and training the Militia of this Province.” (Passed 13th March, 1811.) | 51 George III – Chapter 7 | 1811 | A consolidation of several past acts regarding religious exemptions to militia service. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter an Act, entitled, “An Act to regulate the Expenditure of Monies hereafter to be appropriated for the Service of Roads and Bridges.” | 51 George III – Chapter 7 | 1811 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend the Process of the District Courts, and also further to regulate the Proceedings of Sheriffs in the Sale of Goods and Chattels taken by them in Execution. (Passed 13th March, 1811.) | 51 George III – Chapter 6 | 1811 | This act amends the procedures by which district sheriffs and officials seize and sell the goods and chattels of individuals who owe money for fines or fees to the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the proceedings of the Court of Escheats. | 51 George III – Chapter 6 | 1811 | This act regulates how public notices concerning court of escheats proceedings are to be published, and how inquiries are to proceed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of the Poor in the loan of Seed Wheat, Corn and other necessary Grain. (21st. March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 6 | 1811 | Following a short harvest year, this Act makes any contract or agreement for supplies of wheat, peas, oats, or other seeds made within a limited time and in the presence of a credible witness a privileged debt to offer security for the payment of such supplies. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the Forty-eighth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to provide for the accommodation and billeting of His Majesty’s Troops, or of the Militia, when on their march from one part of the Province to another.” | 51 George III – Chapter 5 | 1811 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1808, which regulated the provisioning and billeting of militia troops when they are on active duty and moving from one place in the province to another. The amendment concerns the manner of payment to those who provide provisioning to troops on the move. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue the Acts therein mentioned for making a temporary provision for the Regulation of Trade between this Province and the United States of America, by land or inland-navigation. (21st March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 5 | 1811 | An Act to further continue an Act from 1796 for a limited time. The Act grants the Governor or Lieutenant Governor the authority to suspend, revive, annul, or make void this Act, or every and any of its clauses. Th Act allows the suspension of any act or ordinance relating to trade, in whole or in part, by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor. It further allows the Governor or Lieutenant Governor to make regulations with respect to imports, exports, duties, or anything else between Lower Canada and the United States. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying a certain sum of Money therein mentioned, to make good certain Monies issued and advanced by His Majesty, through the Lieutenant Governor, in pursuance of an Address of this House. | 51 George III – Chapter 4 | 1811 | Unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Inhabitants of each Township to raise Money for defraying the expense attending the running or perambulating the Lines and Bounds of the respective Townships in this Province. | 51 George III – Chapter 4 | 1811 | This act makes it possible for townships to raise money in order to pay for the expense of having to re-establish their boundaries every three years, as required by the laws governing the support of the poor of each township. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for declaring Judges to be disabled and disqualifying them, from being elected, or from Sitting and Voting in the House of Assembly. (21st March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 4 | 1811 | An Act to exclude judges from either His Majesty's Courts of King's Bench from being elected to, sitting in, or voting as a member of the House of Assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend Personal Arrest to the sum of Forty Shillings, and otherwise to regulate the Practice in cases of Personal Arrest. (Passed 15th March, 1811.) | 51 George III – Chapter 3 | 1811 | This act raises the amount for which debtors can be arrested from ten pounds sterling to forty pounds sterling. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the better regulation of Attornies, Solicitors and Proctors, practising in the Courts of Law and Equity in this Province. | 51 George III – Chapter 3 | 1811 | This act defines the functions which can and cannot be undertaken by attorneys and solicitors within the province of Nova Scotia, specifying rules and regulations which must be followed in order to practice as attorneys or clerks. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for establishing Regulations respecting Aliens and certain subjects of his Majesty, who have resided in France, coming into this Province, or residing therein. (21st, March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 3 | 1811 | This Act is a revised version of an Act originally passed in 1793 "An Act for establishing regulations respecting Aliens and certain subjects of his Majesty, who have resided in France, coming into this Province, or residing therein; and for empowering his Majesty to secure and detain persons charged with or suspected of High Treason; and for the arrest and commitment of all persons, who may individually, by seditious practices, attempt to disturb the Government of this Province." The Act requires that ship commanders report the number of "foreigners" on board their vessel to Customs officials when they arrive at ports within the province. The Act grants authority to Justices of the Peace to jail and remove "Aliens" who remain within the province longer than the period allowed by the court. Penalties including fines are outlined as well as who is to be considered an "Alien." The Act requires anyone entering into the province to receive a passport from appointed individuals stationed at Frontier Posts. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act passed in the forty-seventh year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for granting to His Majesty, Duties on Licences to Hawkers, Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen, and other Trading Persons therein mentioned,” and further for granting to His Majesty Duties on Licences to Hawkers, Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen, and other Trading Persons therein mentioned. | 51 George III – Chapter 2 | 1811 | Expired; unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act declaratory of the time at which the levying of certain Duties under and by virtue of an Act passed in the present Session of the Provincial Parliament, intituled, “An Act to continue for a limited time, the levying of the Duties imposed by the Provincial Act of the forty fifth year of His Majesty, George the third, chapter thirteenth, and for applying a certain sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned,” shall take place, and for other purposes. (21st, March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 2 | 1811 | An Act to clarify the former “An Act to continue, for a limited time, the levying of the Duties imposed by the Provincial Act of the forty fifth year of His Majesty George the Third, Chapter thirteenth, and for applying a certain sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned,” 1811, in which certain words of the Act being continued were omitted as it was copied. The Act quotes the omitted words as written in the original Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty a certain sum of Money, out of the Funds applicable to the use of this Province, to defray the expences of amending and opening the Public Highways and Roads, and building of Bridges in the several Districts thereof. | 51 George III – Chapter 1 | 1811 | Temporary; unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the service of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven; and for appropriating such part of the Supplies granted in this Session of the General Assembly as are not already appropriated by the Laws or the Acts of the Province. | 51 George III – Chapter 1 | 1811 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, the levying of the Duties imposed by the Provincial Act of the Forty fifth Year of His Majesty, George the Third, Chapter thirteenth, and for applying, a certain sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned. (12th March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 1 | 1811 | An Act to continue levying duties imposed by "An Act to provide for the erecting of a Common Gaol, in each of the Districts of Quebec and Montreal respectively, and the means for defraying the expences thereof," in 1805 for the purpose of erecting a new building to house the sittings of the Legislature and public offices, as well as their important documents. The rates for duties imposed on teas, liquors, wines, spirits, molasses, and syrups, and directions how goods should be auctioned are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, intituled “An Act for regulating Elections of Representatives in General Assembly, and for limiting the duration of Assemblies in this Province.” Passed the 14th March, 1810. | 52 George III Chapter 36 (1810) | 1810 | This act extends voting rights to Roman Catholics, provided they swear an oath of allegiance to the King. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |