Legislation by Province: Nova Scotia (1758-1825**)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to continue an Act imposing a Duty on articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. | 56 George III – Chapter 15 | 1816 | This Act continues an act placing import duties on articles from the United States which is to remain in force until 18 March 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province now in force relating to a Militia. | 56 George III – Chapter 14 | 1816 | This Act continues several acts relating to the militia which are to remain in force until 18 March 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the appointing Commissioners for Light-Houses. | 56 George III – Chapter 13 | 1816 | This Act makes provision for three commissioners to be appointed and charged with keeping the lighthouses on the province’s coasts staffed, in good repair, and sufficiently supplied. Associated costs are to be covered by light duties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and continue an Act 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 this Province. | 56 George III – Chapter 12 | 1816 | This Act continues an act setting rates of duties on certain goods for support of the government and for promoting certain industries within the province. The act amends the duty placed on rum distilled within the province. These acts are to remain in force until March 18, 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to 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. | 56 George III – Chapter 11 | 1816 | This Act continues several former acts relating to excise duties which are to remain in force until 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the encouragement of the Trade of this Province, in Plaister of Paris, otherwise called Gypsum. | 56 George III – Chapter 10 | 1816 | This Act sets out several regulations relating to trade in gypsum and for ships coming into the province carrying gypsum. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act to give power to the Firewards of the Town of Halifax, to prevent dangerous Quantities of Gunpowder being kept within the said Town and Harbour thereof, to the Town of Windsor. | 56 George III – Chapter 9 | 1816 | This Act extends the provisions of a former Act meant to prevent accidents caused by gun powder to the town of Windsor. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, passed in the fifty-first year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intitled, “An Act for encouraging the establishment of Schools throughout the Province.” | 56 George III – Chapter 8 | 1816 | This Act continues a former act for establishing schools in Nova Scotia for an additional three years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain the Acts, concerning Marriage and Divorce, passed in the thirty-second year of His late Majesty’s Reign, and the first year of His present Majesty’s Reign. | 56 George III – Chapter 7 | 1816 | This act clarifies the allowable reasons for divorce, entitlements for wives divorced of bed and board, and the conditions upon which divorced persons can remarry. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to the Act for punishing Criminal Offenders. | 56 George III – Chapter 6 | 1816 | This act makes it lawful for criminal offenders to be sentenced to hard labour and outlines certain restrictions on the types and duration of labour assigned. | Early Canadiana Online |