Legislation by Province: Nova Scotia (1758-1825**)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to Punish Persons guilty of maliciously killing or maiming Cattle. | 4 George IV – Chapter 4 | 1824 | This act imposes a penalty of triple the estimated damages sustained by the aggrieved party on anyone who should be found guilty of harming cattle or horses. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the Incorporation of a Company for making a Canal by the River and Lakes of the Shubenaccadie. | 4 George IV – Chapter 3 | 1824 | This act allows for the incorporation of a company which will have as its goal the construction of a canal on the Shubenacadie River to allow for easier navigation to and from Halifax Harbour and Minas Basin. The members of the corporation are not herein named or specified, rather the act sets out how the corporation is to be regulated and established, and makes provisions for its establishment once a sufficient number of potential members have been found. | 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 Twenty-Four; 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 Acts of the Province. | 4 George IV – Chapter 2 | 1824 | This act allots various parcels of money for a number of purposes and to various individuals throughout the province, for infrastructure projects and in reimbursement for services rendered to the government. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, made and passed in the fourth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the Jurisdiction of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas within the County of Cape-Breton, and to fix and establish the Time and Places for holding of the said Inferior Court and General Sessions of the Peace in and for the said County." | 4 George IV – Chapter 1 | 1824 | An amendment to an act passed in 1823, which allows for the division of Cape Breton into three separate districts which will each have its own inferior court and general sessions of the peace. The amendment pertains to the geographic locations from where jury candidates will be selected for each court. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act in addition to an Act, passed in the thirty-third year of the Reign of His late Majesty George the Second, entitled, “An Act for regulating the rates and prices of Carriages.” | 4 George IV – Chapter 38 | 1823 | A continuation of an amended 1759 act passed in 1809, which restricts the price that can be demanded by owners of trucks, carts, and other carriages and provides for a table of allowable rates to be drawn up. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, entitled, “An Act in addition to and amendment of an Act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, ‘An Act for repairing, cleansing and paving, the Streets, in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax, and for removing Obstructions therein;’” and also the act in amendment thereof, passed in the forty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign. | 4 George IV – Chapter 37 | 1823 | A continuation of an amendment to an act first passed in 1801, which divided the town of Halifax into wards for the purposes of repairing and maintaining roads. The amendment requires residents to keep the streets and gutters in front of their houses clean of any sort of filth or nuisance. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further provision for the Administration of Justice in the County of Cape-Breton. | 4 George IV – Chapter 36 | 1823 | This act allows for the appointment of a chief justice for Cape Breton, following the criteria stated within the act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering the time of holding the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, in the County of Cumberland. | 4 George IV – Chapter 35 | 1823 | This act changes the day on which the courts of common pleas and general sessions of the peace are held in Cumberland county, from the last Tuesday in April and the first Tuesday in November, to the last Tuesday of June and the first Tuesday in January. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and continue the several Acts of the General Assembly, for granting to His Majesty, certain duties on Wine, Brandy, Gin, Rum and other Distilled Spirituous Liquors, Molasses, Coffee and Brown Sugar, for the support of His Majesty’s Government, and for promoting the Agriculture, Commerce and Fisheries, of the Province. | 4 George IV – Chapter 34 | 1823 | This Act continues a number of past acts relating to the collection of duties to support the government | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Jurisdiction of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas within the County of Cape Breton, and to fix and establish the times places for holding of the said Inferior Court and General Sessions of the Peace in and for the said County. | 4 George IV – Chapter 33 | 1823 | This act allows for the division of Cape Breton into three separate districts which will each have its own inferior court and general sessions of the peace. | Early Canadiana Online |