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Title Chapter Date Passed Legislative Summary Source Document
An Act to continue an Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Wine, Rum, and other Distilled Spirituous Liquors, Molasses, Coffee, and Brown Sugar. 54 George III – Chapter 19 1814 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to enable the Proprietors to repair the Meeting-House at Truro, and to inclose the Burying Place belonging to the same, and also to assess Monies for defraying the expences thereof. 54 George III – Chapter 18 1814 This act makes it possible for the proprietors of the meeting-house in Truro to find money necessary to fund repairs to the building and the adjacent graveyard. Early Canadiana Online
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 the Harbour thereof. 54 George III – Chapter 17 1814 This act prohibits any house or shop in Halifax from storing more than twenty-five pounds of gunpowder at once, charging the town firewards with enforcement of the act. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to regulate the Exportation of Ton Timber, and to repeal two Acts made in the twelfth and thirty-third years of His Majesty’s Reign, declaring what shall be deemed Merchantable Timber, for exportation to Great-Britain. 54 George III – Chapter 16 1814 This act regulates the standards and quality for hewed timber to be exported from the province. Surveyors are empowered to inspect hewed timber to make sure it meets exportation standards, and impose fines if it does not. Early Canadiana Online
An Act for protecting Justices of the Peace in the execution of their Office, and for indemnifying Constables and others acting in obedience to their Warrants; and also for apprehending persons in any County or Place, upon Warrants, granted by Justices of the Peace in any other County or Place. 54 George III – Chapter 15 1814 This act grants projection to legal officials in the province from being legally pursued by the subjects of the legal proceedings which the duty of their profession requires them to exercise judgment or action, such as execution of a warrant. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to 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 licensed to keep public Houses or Shops for the Retail of Spirituous Liquors. 54 George III – Chapter 14 1814 A continuation of an act first passed in 1799, along with its various amendments and continuations, which allocates the money collected from duties placed on various types of liquor, as well as fees collected from licenses issued by the province to sell liquor, to be used to pay for road repairs across the province. Early Canadiana Online
An Act for altering the time appointed for holding the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the County of King’s County, in the Spring of the Year. 54 George III – Chapter 13 1814 This act changes the time at which the inferior court of common pleas is held in Horton, to the third Tuesday in May. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, now in force, relating to a Militia, and in further amendment of the same. 54 George III – Chapter 12 1814 A continuation of several acts regulating the militia as well as their related amendments, as well as a few new amendments mostly related to fines imposed on officers who neglect their duties. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to revive and continue the several Acts for regulating the Summary Trial of Actions, before His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax. 54 George III – Chapter 11 1814 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to alter and amend an Act, passed in the fifty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for the improvement of the Great Roads through the Province.” 54 George III – Chapter 10 1814 An amendment to an act first passed in 1813, concerning the expansion of roads in the province. This amendment expands the original act to include roads outside the jurisdiction outside the original act. Early Canadiana Online