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 for the better support of the Poor, in the respective Counties of this Province. 49 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 2) 1808 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act for continuing 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. 49 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) 1808 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act in addition to an Act, passed in the twenty-ninth year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for the better support of the Poor in the respective Counties within this Province, by laying an Impost Duty on all articles imported into this Province from the United States of America.” 49 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 2) 1808 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act for imposing an additional Duty of Excise on Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, and for appropriating the same. 49 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 2) 1808 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act for applying certain Monies to the purposes therein mentioned. 48 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 1) 1808 This act requests that unappropriated government funds be used to pay various expenses related to the house of assembly, and lighthouse repairs required at Annapolis necessitated by fire damage. Early Canadiana Online
An Act in addition to an Act, passed in the Forty-Seventh Year of his present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the expenditure of Monies hereafter to be appropriated for the service of Roads and Bridges.” 48 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) 1808 A continuation of an act first passed in 1806, which specified how commissioners appointed to oversee road construction and improvement projects were to handle the funds for hiring labour, buying supplies, and pay contracts. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to impose and appropriate an additional Duty on all Wine, hereafter to be imported into this Province. 48 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) 1808 This act 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 act also includes provisions for any leftover sums which may accrue from this duty, should the tax result in more than the five hundred pounds required for the specified pension. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to provide for the accommodation and billeting of His Majesty’s Troops, or of the Militia, when on their march from one part of the Province to another. 48 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) 1808 This act regulates the provisioning and billeting of militia troops when they are on active duty and moving from one place in the province to another. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to provide for the greater Security of this Province by a better regulation of the Militia, and to repeal the Militia Laws now in force. 48 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 1) 1808 This act replaces all prior militia acts with new regulations governing enrollment, training, penalties for failing to muster, reimbursement for innkeepers who supply mustering troops, and many other concerns surrounding the maintenance of a provincial militia. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to render perpetual an Act to enable the Inhabitants of the several Towns in this Province, to raise Monies for the sinking of Wells, supplying the same with Pumps, and for keeping them in repair. 48 George III – Chapter 24 1807 This act makes perpetual an act first passed in 1769, which allows the inhabitants of various townships to vote on the use of money required to construct wells and pumps, and to maintain wells and pumps for their respective townships. Early Canadiana Online