Legislation by Province: Nova Scotia (1758-1825**)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to amend, revive, and continue, the several Acts imposing a Duty on Articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. | 60 George III – Chapter 5 | 1820 | This Act revives and continues a former act relating to duties on articles imported from the United States until 1821 and amends the act to include duties on livestock. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for establishing a Public Market in the Town of Lunenburg. | 60 George III – Chapter 4 | 1820 | This act extends a previous act for establishing a market in Liverpool to Lunenburg. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act for granting a Drawback of the Duties on Brown or Raw Sugar used in the manufacture of Refined Sugar within the Province, and for regulating the mode of obtaining the same. | 60 George III – Chapter 3 | 1820 | This act continues the named act until 1821. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive and continue the several Acts of the General Assembly for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a Duty of Excise on all Goods, Wares and Merchandise, imported into this Province. | 60 George III – Chapter 2 | 1820 | This act continues several former acts relating to the collection of excise duties until 1821. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, amend 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. | 60 George III – Chapter 1 | 1820 | This Act continues several acts relating to the collection of duties to support the government until 1821. Some amendments, including to the rate of duty on distilled liquor and to add a report to be made by ship masters to the collector of impost and excise after vessels land in their district. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Sale of Goods at Public Auction or Outcry. | 59 George III – Chapter 30 | 1819 | This act imposes duties, licenses, and other regulations on public auctions, and details penalties for auction-masters who should refuse pay duties, keep accounts of taxable goods sold, or refuse to sell goods on which a tax is imposed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the fifty-eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for the Summary Trial of Actions.” | 59 George III – Chapter 29 | 1819 | An amendment to an act passed in 1818, which outlines the fees and operation of the inferior courts of the province and continues a former act, “An Act for the Summary Trial of Actions” for an additional year. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act, made and passed in the third and fourth years of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the several Townships within the Province to maintain their Poor.” | 59 George III – Chapter 28 | 1819 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1763, which describes how townships are to be assessed and sums granted to the freeholders of each town for the maintenance of their poor. The amendment details the procedure to be followed in cases where those who are assessed fail to pay. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and amend an Act, to encourage persons concerned in the Lumber Trade, and authorising Courts of Session to make regulations for preventing obstructions in bringing the same, with other articles, down the several Rivers in this Province. | 59 George III – Chapter 27 | 1819 | A continuation and amendment of an act first passed in 1818 which makes it lawful for people involved in the timber trade to remove obstructions from rivers to allow them to move timber to market. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, continue and amend, an Act to provide for the support of a Light-House at the South end of Coffin’s Island, on the Eastern side of the entrance of Liverpool Harbour. | 59 George III – Chapter 26 | 1819 | A continuation and amendment of an act first passed in 1812 which imposes a duty on ships entering Liverpool Harbour in order to support a lighthouse on Coffin's Island. | Early Canadiana Online |