| An Act for altering the time of holding the Courts of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the Counties of Annapolis and King’s County. |
46 George III – Chapter 14 |
1805 |
This act alters the time at which the courts of Annapolis and King's county are held. |
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| An Act for establishing a Circuit Court in the County of Lunenburg, and District of Pictou, |
46 George III – Chapter 13 |
1805 |
This act amends the days on which the district courts of Lunenburg and Pictou sit, as well as the circuit courts at Windsor and Amherst. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue in force the several Acts therein mentioned. |
46 George III – Chapter 12 |
1805 |
This act continues various acts relating to various matters. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the expenditure of Monies hereafter to be appropriated for the service of Roads and Bridges. |
46 George III – Chapter 11 |
1805 |
This act deals primarily with the responsibilities of commissioners appointed by the province to oversee road construction and improvement projects. It specifies how commissioners for road projects are to be chosen and dismissed, how those commissioners are to pay contractors, enter into contracts, and account for all monies allocated to them, and other items. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, made in the fortieth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act, in further addition to, and for altering and amending, an Act, passed in the thirty-fifth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act, to amend, and reduce into one Act, the several Laws now in being relating to a Militia in this Province.’” |
46 George III – Chapter 10 |
1805 |
This act amends an amendment to an act first passed in 1795, which consolidated several past acts regarding militia service in the province. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting Two Thousand Pounds for the encouragement of the Agriculture of this Province. |
46 George III – Chapter 9 |
1805 |
This act offers a bounty of twenty shillings for every acre of land cleared to anyone who clears a minimum of two acres, be they the owners or tenants of said land. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive and continue an Act, made and passed in the thirty-fourth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to provide for the Grammar School in Halifax, and for other public purposes therein contained.” |
46 George III – Chapter 8 |
1805 |
A continuation of an act first passed in 1794, which placed a duty on certain goods imported into the province in order to fund schools in the district of Halifax. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, and continue, an Act, made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for the better support of the Poor in the respective Counties of this Province, by laying an Impost Duty on articles imported into this Province from the United States of America.” |
46 George III – Chapter 7 |
1805 |
A continuation of an act first passed in 1789, which placed a ten percent tax on all items being imported from the United States. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage the fitting out of Vessels in this Province, for carrying on the Bank and Cod Fisheries. |
46 George III – Chapter 6 |
1805 |
This act incentivizes the cod fishery by offering bounties to the masters of ships by ton, and allowing cod fishermen to establish drying facilities anywhere on the shores of the province without concern for private ownership of the land. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive an Act passed in the thirty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a Duty of Excise, on all Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into this Province;” and, also, the Act, in amendment thereof, passed in the forty-first year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act, to alter, amend, and continue, an Act, made and passed in the thirty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a Duty of Excise, on all Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into this Province.’” |
46 George III – Chapter 5 |
1805 |
A continuation of an act published in 1793, along with its subsequent amendment in 1801, imposing import duties on certain goods. |
Early Canadiana Online |