Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An act for Regulating Servants. | 5 George III – Chapter 7 | 1765 | This Act implements several measures to prevent bound and hired servants and apprentices from deserting their service without legal discharge. Servants whose masters or mistresses refuse to discharge them are permitted to apply to a Justice of the Peace who may rule on whether the reasons for refusal are sufficient. Punishments for servants who desert and for masters or mistresses who are found to treat their servants badly are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Inhabitants in the several Townships in this Province, (Halifax excepted) to cause any absent Proprietor of Lands within the same, to pay a Dividend or Proportion of any County or Town Charge to be assessed according to Law, and to bear their just Proportion in repairing Highways, Roads, and Bridges within the said Townships respectively. | 5 George III – Chapter 5 | 1765 | This Act requires non-resident proprietors to contribute labour or funds towards the maintenance and construction of roads, highways, and bridges. The processes by which this Act is to be enforced are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further Addition to and Amendment of an Act, made pass’d in the 34th Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for the appointing Commissioners of Sewers.” | 5 George III – Chapter 4 | 1765 | This Act amends the last clause of the 1763 Act, "An act in addition to, and amendment of an act, for the appointing commissioners of sewers," and makes provision to collect on assessments from proprietors having no goods or chattles. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to and Amendment of an Act, made and pass’d in the First Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for repairing and mending Highways, Roads, Bridges, and Streets,” and for appointing Surveyors of Highways, within the several Townships in this Province. | 5 George III – Chapter 2 | 1765 | This Act amends and makes additions to the 1761 Act, "An Act for repairing and mending Highways, Roads, Bridges, and Streets." The Act outlines standards for road and highway construction and the methods by which they are to be maintained. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Choice of Town Officers and Regulating Townships. | 5 George III – Chapter 1 | 1765 | This Act replaces the methods by which town officers, including fence viewers, constables, and surveyors, are to be appointed. The Act also establishes that boundary lines between townships should be renewed every three years and the processes by which this is to be done , and the processes by which unfenced lands should be marked. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the Laws of this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act permits the Treasurer the borrow a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred pounds to pay off bounties, premiums, and debts. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An act for discontinuing part of the Bounties and Premiums, granted by former Laws of this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act discontinues the bounties and premiums granted formerly by the Province except the bounty for building the stone walls on the peninsula of Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Fifteen Hundred Pounds, for paying off the Debt incurred by making roads into the interior Parts of this Province, and for further prolonging an Act made and passed in the Third Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled “An Act for suppressing unlicensed Houses, and granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed.” | 4 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act allows the Governor, Council, and Assembly, to borrow a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred pounds, over and above the sums collected under the 1763 Act, “An Act for suppressing unlicensed Houses, and granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed,” for making and repairing roads. The 1763 Act is to remain in force for an additional two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an act, made and pass’d in the Third Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled an Act, for altering and amending several Acts of this Province, relating to the Duties of Impost upon Wines, Beer, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors. | 4 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act imposes a fine of ten pounds on any person found to be keeping illegally imported wine, beer, rum, or other spirituous liquors and imposes regulations to prevent frauds by the vessels or persons importing the same. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further Addition to, and Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act relating to the Assize of Bread, and for ascertaining the Standard of Weights and Measures,” made and passed in the Thirty Second Year of His late Majesty’s Reign. | 4 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 2) | 1764 | Under this Act, any Justice of the Peace is empowered to enforce the 1758 Act, "An Act relating to the Assize of Breads and for Ascertaining the Standard of Weights and Measures," and persons offending against this Act are to be charged twenty shillings for each offence. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the ascertaining the Times, and Places for the holding the General Sessions of the Peace & Inferior Courts of Common Pleas, for the several Counties in this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act sets the times in which the General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Court of Common Pleas are to be held in each of the Province's counties and the place whereat the courts are to be held. This Act is to remain in force for three years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal Part of an Act made and passed in the IIId. Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act to prevent Frauds in the selling of Beef, Pork, Flour and Biscuit or Ship bread in Casks.” | 4 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act repeals the first clause of the 1763 Act, "An Act to prevent Frauds in selling of Beef, Pork, Flour, and Biscuit, or Ship-Bread in Casks." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further addition to an Act, made and pass’d in the Third Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for altering and amending several Acts of this Province, relating to the duties of Excise on Wines, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, sold within this Province.” | 4 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act makes provision that, if the owner be absent, the foreman is to act in their stead to fulfill to terms of a former Act, “An Act for altering and amending several Acts of this Province, relating to the duties of Excise on Wines, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, sold within this Province.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer, to issue small Notes for discharging the Loans made in Virtue of an Act, made and passed in the first Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for the Relief of the Poor of the Town of Halifax, and indigent Persons in the New Settlements;” and of an Act made and passed in the IId. Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act to enable the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, to borrow the Sum of £4,500 for paying off the Public Debts, and to postpone the Payment of Bounties and Premiums." | 4 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act empowers the Treasurer of the province to receive warrants for money borrowed under the 1764 Act, "An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the Laws of this Province." All receipts issued by the Treasurer are to bear interest at a rate of six pounds per centum per annum. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the Laws of this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act provides a sum not exceeding two thousand nine hundred pounds to pay off the debts not covered under the Act, “An Act to impower the province treasurer to borrow a sum not exceeding the sum of four thousand pounds, for paying off bounties, and premiums, and other debts payable by the laws of this province." The processes by which this sum is to be distributed and accounted for are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further Addition to an Act, made and passed in the XXXIII. Year of his late Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for regulating Petty Juries, and declaring the Qualification of Jurors.” | 4 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act makes addition to the 1759 Act, "An Act for regulating Petit Juries, and declaring the Qualification of Jurors," to extend the Act's provisions to all counties in the Province, whereas the former Act applied only to Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for preventing abatement and discontinuance of Suits. | 4 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1764 | Under this Act, in the event that a plaintiff dies before a final judgement is obtained on any action held or to be held in a Court of Record, the suit is to maintained by the executors or administrators of such plaintiff and if the defendant should die, prosecuted against their executors or administrators. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Reformation of Jeofails and Mispleadings, and to prevent Arrests and Reversals of Judgments, and for the better Advancement of Justice. | 4 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act implements several measures to prevent reversal of judgments by Writ of Error or False Judgement, including that every person named as an attorney is a suit is required to deliver their Warrant of Attorney to the Clerk of the Court upon pain of a five pound fine. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for amending Defects in Pleas, Processes, and Records. | 4 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 1) | 1764 | Under this Act, judges are empowered to examine records and processes and, if deemed necessary, return them to their clerks to amend them and fix error, such as misspelled names. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, made and passed in the Thirty third Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Intitled, an Act for the Summary Trial of Actions. | 3 George III – Chapter 15 (Session 2) | 1763 | Under this Act, Justices of Common Pleas are permitted to hear and grant execution on cases of debts not exceeding ten pounds as if the same had been tried in the Inferior Court. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |