| An Act for the better management and relief of the Poor of Halifax. |
41 George III – Chapter 6 |
1801 |
This act appoints the commissioners named to oversee the relief of the poor within the town of Halifax. Their responsibilities are specified by the act, along with the various types of employment which can be undertaken by those residing in the poor-houses of Halifax. |
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| An Act for the repairing, keeping in repair, cleaning and paving, the streets in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax, and for removing obstructions therein, and also to suspend the power and authority vested in the Surveyors of Highways within the Town and Peninsula of Halifax, after the first day of August next, during the operation of this Act. |
41 George III – Chapter 5 |
1801 |
This act divides the town of Halifax into wards for the purposes of repairing and maintaining roads, and allows for the appointment of commissioners to determine the work that needs to be done for each ward, the budget which will be required, and sets out penalties for those who impede the work of the commissioners. |
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| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, the Act, passed in the second year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for appointing Firewards, ascertaining their duty, and for punishing thefts and disorders at the time of Fire.” |
41 George III – Chapter 1 |
1801 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1762, and which had been amended several times prior. This particular amendment extends the terms of the act to the town of Liverpool, which was not included in the amendment of 1793, which saw the inclusion of towns beyond Halifax, the original jurisdiction of the 1762 act. |
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| An Act in amendment of an Act, made in the Thirty-fifth year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to prevent the harbouring of Deserters from His Majesty’s Army, and the sale of arms, accoutrements and cloathing, belonging to His Majesty.” |
41 George III – Chapter 4 |
1800 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1795, which imposed a financial penalty on anyone who should assist any member of the British forces in an attempt at desertion, and further penalties on anyone who tries to sell any of their gear. |
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| An Act to authorize Captain William Fenwick, His Majesty’s Commanding Engineer in Nova Scotia, to extend the South Military Barrack in Halifax, Seven Feet on Albermarle-Street for the better accommodation of the Troops in Garrison there. |
41 George III – Chapter 3 |
1800 |
This act authorises the extension of one of the military barracks in Halifax, as proposed to the Lieutenant-Governor by the Commanding Engineer, Captain William Fenwick. |
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| An Act to repeal an Act, made in the Thirty-ninth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the practice of Inoculation for the Small Pox.” |
41 George III – Chapter 2 |
1800 |
This act repeals all clauses of an act first passed in 1799. |
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| An Act to revive, amend and continue, an Act, passed in the thirty-sixth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act in addition to an Act, made in the fifth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act for the raising money by presentment, on the several counties in this Province, for the defraying certain county charges therein mentioned.’” |
40 George III – Chapter 19 |
1800 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1765, which made it lawful for the grand juries in each county to make presentment upon all sums necessary for the construction or repairing of jails, courts, session houses, stocks, pillories, or pounds, and for providing bolts, shackles, and the conveying of persons to the county jail. |
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| 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.” |
40 George III – Chapter 18 |
1800 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1795, which consolidated several past acts regarding militia service in the province. |
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| An Act for applying certain monies, therein mentioned, for the service of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred; and for appropriating such part of the Supplies, granted in this session of the General Assembly, as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province. |
40 George III – Chapter 17 |
1800 |
This act was not published. |
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| An Act to continue in force the several Acts therein mentioned. |
40 George III – Chapter 16 |
1800 |
This act was not published. |
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