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 Granting to His Majesty a Duty of Impost, on Load Sugar, Bricks, and Lumber. | 3 George III – Chapter 14 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act imposes duties on lumber, sugar loaf, and bricks to supplement the duties imposed on beer, wine, rum, and other spirituous liquors, which were found insufficient for the purposes for which they were intended. The rates of duty set on these goods are listed. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act For suppressing unlicensed Houses, and for Granting to His Majesty a duty on Persons hereafter to be Licensed. | 3 George III – Chapter 13 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act imposes penalties on those found to be selling wine, rum, beer, or other spirituous liquors without a licence. The Act also outlines how licences to sell the same can be obtained and certain rules about how and where they are permitted to sell spirituous liquors. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving an Act, made and pass’d in the Thirty Third Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Intitled an Act for further Prolonging a Resolution of the Governor and Council, revived and put in Force by the General Assembly the Thirty Second Year of His Majesty’s Reign. | 3 George III – Chapter 12 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act revives the 1759 Act, “An Act for further prolonging a Resolution of the Governor and Council, revived and put in Force by the General Assembly in the 32d Year of His Majesty’s Reign,” which is to remain in force for three years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act For Laying a Duty on Billiard Tables, and Shuffle Boards. | 3 George III – Chapter 11 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act imposes a duty on opening billiard tables or shuffle boards and requires persons keeping the same to obtain a licence in order to limit the number in the Province. The sums arising from this duty are to be used to repair or open roads in the Province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act 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. | 3 George III – Chapter 10 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act amends and adds to an Act passed in the first Session of the General Assembly, 1763, “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,” relating to balancing stock accounts. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain and amend an Act, made and pass’d in the 32d Year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, intitled, an Act for making Lands and Tenements Liable to the Payment of Debts. | 3 George III – Chapter 8 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act explains and amends the 1758 Act, “An Act for making Lands and Tenements Liable to the Payment of Debts,” including by outlining how persons judged to wrongfully detain lands or tenements should be prosecuted and expanding on how rents can be collected. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, intitled, An Act for Regulating the Proceedings of the Courts of Judicature. | 3 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act outlines how creditors can collect on debts owing from insolvent persons and penalties for insolvent debtors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| 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. | 3 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 1) | 1763 | An amendment of several past acts regarding taxes placed on various alcoholic beverages when sold in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. | 3 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act outlines how creditors can collect on debts owing from insolvent persons and penalties for insolvent debtors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer, to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Four Thousand Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the laws of this Province. | 3 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act provides a sum not exceeding four thousand pounds to cover the debts that impost and excise duties were insufficient to pay. The terms under which this sum can be used are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further addition to and Amendment of an Act intitled, “An Act for suppressing unlicensed Houses and for Granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed.” | 3 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1763 | This is an amendment to a past act which places regulations and licensing fees on individuals who sell alcohol in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Enable Proprietors of Lands, to Assess and Discharge the Expence, which has Accrued upon Dividing their Lands, by Virtue of a Former Law of this Province. | 3 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1763 | Under this Act, proprietors who have divided their lands according to the 1759 Act, “An Act to enable Proprietors to divide their lands, held in common and undivided” are to pay the expences arising from the division and how expences are to be recovered if proprietors refuse or neglect to pay. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent Frauds in selling of Beef, Pork, Flour, and Biscuit, or Ship-Bread in Casks. | 3 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1763 | This act places a regulatory weight on beef, pork, flour, biscuit, and ship-bread being sold by the barrel in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent Nusances, by Hedges, Wears, and other Incumbrances, Obstructing the Passage of Fish in the Rivers in this Province. | 3 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act prohibits persons in the province from building fish weirs, hedges, fish garths, or other obstructions that may prevent fish from spawning. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for regulating the Proceedings of the Courts of Judicature. | 3 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1763 | This act clarifies procedures for seeking damages against debtors in the provincial court system. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to, and Amendment of an Act, intitled, An Act for the appointing Commissioners of Sewers, made and pass'd in the 34th Year of His late Majesty’s Reign. | 3 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act amends and adds to the 1760 Act, “An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers,” in order to make more sufficient provision for the recovery of sums set for repairing or building dykes and drains. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for continuing 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.” | 2 George III – Chapter 11 | 1762 | This Act continues the 1759 Act, “An Act for the summary Trial of Actions,” which is to remain in force for two years. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act to prohibit for a limited Time the Exportation of Warlike Stores. | 2 George III – Chapter 10 | 1762 | This Act prohibits the exportation of any ammunition or warlike stores and declares that the same found on board any vessel is to be forfeited. Any master and mariners knowing committing this offence are to be imprisoned for three months. Exceptions to and limits on this Act are described. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Addition to, and Amendment of, and for further prolonging, an Act made and passed in the First Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for suppressing unlicensed Houses, and for granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed.” | 2 George III – Chapter 9 | 1762 | This Act adds to the 1761 Act, “An Act for suppressing unlicensed houses, and for granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed,” by imposing more severe penalties. This Act is to remain in force for one year. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for regulating the Exportation of Fish, and the Assize of Barrels, Staves, Hoops, Boards, and all other kind of Lumber; and for appointing Officers to survey the same. | 2 George III – Chapter 8 | 1762 | This Act sets several regulations on how fish can be exported, including the regulations on the barrels it is to be shipped in, and sets the standard sizes of lumber to be traded. The Act makes provision for the appointment of and describes the duties of several surveyors including gaugers of casks or barrels, cullers of dry cod-fish, and other surveyors of fish. This act is to be read and published every year as described. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |