Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act in Addition to an Act, passed in the First Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for the better Observation and keeping of the Lord’s Day.” | 31 George III Chapter 3 | 1791 | This Act clarifies that writs or process in civil suits are not to be served on the Lord's Day. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to declare that No Law passed in the General Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia before the erection of the Province of New Brunswick shall be of force in this Province. | 31 George III Chapter 2 | 1791 | This act stipulates that any Nova Scotia law passed while the territory that became New Brunswick was a part of it will have no legal standing in it now. | Acts of the General Assembly of his Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1791. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1791. |
| An Act, in Addition to, and Amendment of an Act, made in the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for rating and levying the Expences attending the executing Writs of Partition.” | 31 George III Chapter 1 | 1791 | This Act amends the 1773 Act, "An Act for the rating and levying the Expences attending the executing Writs of Partition," relating to the sale of lands when the proprietor fails to pay their share of the expences outlined under the former Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving and continuing in Force the several Acts herein after mentioned. | 30 George III Chapter 14 | 1790 | This Act lists several recently expired acts, largely relating to the justice system or infrastructure, which are to be revived and remain in force until July 1791. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving, continuing and amending the several Acts for suppressing unlicensed Houses, and for granting to his Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed; as also for compelling Persons retailing Gunpowder within the Peninsula of Halifax, to take out a License for retailing the same. | 30 George III Chapter 13 | 1790 | 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act, intitled, “An Act for appointing Commissioners to superintend and direct the Maintenance and Support of certain Poor Persons known by the general Appellation of Transient Poor.” | 30 George III Chapter 12 | 1790 | This Act ends certain provincially-funded provisions made for the poor, including the work house in Halifax, and enacts that each town is to maintain their own poor. The processes by which each town should maintain their poor and processes for the transition from provincial to local are outlined, including how transient persons are to be removed from Halifax. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Support and Maintenance of his Majesty’s Government in this Province by reviving, amending and continuing the several Laws for raising a Revenue hereinafter particularly mentioned and expressed. | 30 George III Chapter 11 | 1790 | 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act for regulating the manner of issuing Process and Execution from the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas for the several Counties in this Province, and for altering the Form of the Summons heretofore used by his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, also in Amendment and declaratory of the Act for the Summary Trials of Actions. | 30 George III Chapter 8 | 1790 | This Act amends the processes by which summons are to be executed and the ways that the summons are to be directed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers.” | 30 George III Chapter 7 | 1790 | This Act amends the 1760 Act, "An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers" relating to the rates Commissioners can charge proprietors for their work and the processes by which the sum owed is to be decided. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of Act relating to Wills, Legacies and Executors, and for the Settlement and Distribution of Estates of Intestates, and to enable Executors and Administrators the more speedily to settle the Estate of the Deceased. | 30 George III Chapter 5 | 1790 | This Act limits the period in which persons can make claims on the estate of the deceased for debts owing to two and a half years. The processes by which these claims are to be made and the executor's duties are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent the destroying or defacing Mile-Posts, Mile-Boards or Mile-Stones, erected or to be erected within this Province. | 30 George III Chapter 3 | 1790 | This Act imposes a fine on persons found to deface, displace, or otherwise injure mile markers and outlines penalties for persons not able to pay the fine. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for the more speedy and effectually collecting such Town Rates and Taxes as may be assessed on the Inhabitants of the town of Halifax.” | 30 George III Chapter 2 | 1790 | This Act amends a former Act to reduce to the sums allowed to collectors as compensation for their services. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Services of the Year One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty-nine, and for appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of General Assembly, and for funding the Province Debt. | 29 George III – Chapter 17 | 1789 | This act puts in place measures to not only pay the expenses of the government for the year, but also to pay off part of the provincial debt. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for continuing in Force the several Acts herein after mentioned. | 29 George III – Chapter 16 | 1789 | This act continues three separate acts and the acts which relate to them. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Support of His Majesty’s Government in this Province by amending and continuing the several Laws for raising a Revenue as are herein after particularly mentioned and expressed. | 29 George III – Chapter 15 | 1789 | 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the better support of the Poor in the respective Counties within this Province by laying an Impost Duty on all Articles imported into this Province form the United States of America. | 29 George III – Chapter 14 | 1789 | 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for continuing and amending the several Acts for supressing unlicensed Houses, and for granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed. | 29 George III – Chapter 13 | 1789 | This is an amendment to an act that has been amended and renewed numerous times. The changes in this amendment pertain to the amount each licensed seller will pay to their local clerk on a yearly basis, and the maximum number of taverns to be permitted per district. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the better Support of the Puisne Judges of His Majesty’s Supreme Court. | 29 George III – Chapter 12 | 1789 | This act grants an annual salary of 400 pounds to the puisne judges of the supreme court. | Early Canadiana Online |
| In Amendment of an Act made in the second Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for regulating the Exportation of Fish, and the assize of Barrels, Staves, Hoops, Boards, and all other kinds of Lumber,” and for appointing Officers to survey the same. | 29 George III – Chapter 11 | 1789 | 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act, in Amendment of an Act made in the third Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to prevent Frauds in the selling of Flour and Biscuit or Ship Bread in Casks.” | 29 George III – Chapter 10 | 1789 | 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. | Early Canadiana Online |