Legislation by Province: Nova Scotia (1758-1825**)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act imposing a Duty on Articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. | 55 George III – Chapter 18 | 1815 | This act places a duty on all items imported from the United States, except the named exceptions. The proceeds are to be applied to the support of the poor of the county in which they are collected. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, alter and continue, the several Acts of the General Assembly, for raising a Revenue to repair the Roads throughout the Province, by laying a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licenced to keep Public Houses and Shops for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. | 55 George III – Chapter 17 | 1815 | This act continues various past acts relating to raising revenues to repair and build roads, particularly to those acts which appropriate the revenue raised by charging licensing fees for the sale of alcoholic beverages. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate Markets in the Town of Halifax; and also, to repeal an Act, passed in the thirty-ninth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for repairing, or rebuilding, the Market House, and regulating the several Markets in the Town of Halifax;” and also to revive, alter, amend, and bring into one Act, the Act for preventing Fraud by Butchers and Fishmongers, and the Act made in the thirty-fourth year of His late Majesty’s reign, for regulating and establishing a Public Market in the Town of Halifax. | 55 George III – Chapter 16 | 1815 | An appeal of an act passed in 1799, which was itself an amendment to several other acts dating back to 1760, regulating the public market practices of Halifax. The current bill repeals the past acts and replaces it with new measures. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, alter and amend, the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, now in force, relating to a Militia. | 55 George III – Chapter 15 | 1815 | A continuation of several past acts regarding the organisation and discipline of the provincial militia, with two minor amendments. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide an Easier Method than is now used for Barring Estates Tail in Lands. | 55 George III – Chapter 14 | 1815 | This act defines how the inherited rights of tenants are to be protected and processed in courts when lands are transferred between owners. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue 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. | 55 George III – Chapter 13 | 1815 | A continuation 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 |
| An Act to repeal the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, herein after mentioned. | 55 George III – Chapter 12 | 1815 | An act repealing several past acts pertaining to revenue collection for the purposes of defence. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend to the Town of Pictou the several Acts for appointing Firewards. | 55 George III – Chapter 11 | 1815 | An amendment of an act first passed in 1762, which makes provision for the appointment of up to ten persons to serve as firewards in Halifax. The amendment extends the provisions of the act to the town of Truro. NOTE: Although the first clause states that the original act was passed "in the thirty-second year of His Majesty's reign," please note that it was actually passed in 2 Geo III. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the forty-eighth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to impose and appropriate an additional Duty on all Wine hereafter to be imported into this Province.” | 55 George III – Chapter 10 | 1815 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1808, imposes a further duty of six pence per gallon of wine imported into the province in order to pay an annual pension of five hundred pounds to Sir John Wentworth, former Lieutenant-Governor, for his lifetime. The amendment relates to the manner in which this duty is collected. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Establishing a Bridewell, or House of Correction, for the County of Halifax, and for the better and more effectual administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in the Township of Halifax, and for providing a Police Office in the said Town, with proper officers to attend the same. | 55 George III – Chapter 9 | 1815 | This act establishes a bridewell in Halifax, a type of jail for offenders who commit petty crimes. The act specifies the regulations to be followed by justices who would commit offenders to the said bridewell, the type of offenders to be sent there, the sums of money to be appropriated for its construction and maintenance, and various other matters relating to the running of such an institution. | Early Canadiana Online |