| An Act to enable the Sheriffs of the Several Counties in this Province, to administer the Oath or Oaths, or if to a Quaker, Affirmation, by Law required to be administered to such Person or Persons, as the said Sheriffs may respectively have occasion to employ as Appraiser or Appraisers of Goods, Chattels, Lands, or other real Estates by them attached on mesne process, or taken in Execution. |
33 George III – Chapter 10 |
1793 |
This act allows sheriffs to administer oaths to appraisers of goods of various types. |
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| An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Town of Annapolis, and the Officers of His Majesty’s Garrison, stationed for the time being in the said Town of Annapolis, annually to nominate and appoint Supervisors, to take charge of the Common appertaining to the said Town, and for other purposes therein mentioned. |
33 George III – Chapter 9 |
1793 |
This act makes provisions for the maintenance of common diked marshland outside of Annapolis. The act gives the responsibility and authority to supervisors to maintain the common marshland, and specifies the punishments for disobeying the instructions of the supervisors. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Deputy Surveyors of this Province, to administer an Oath, or Affirmation if Quakers, to such Persons as may be employed under them, as Chain Bearers in measuring Lands. |
33 George III – Chapter 8 |
1793 |
This act modifies the manner in which the oath to be taken by surveyors or "chain men" employed by surveyors so they do not have to travel such long distances to swear an oath before a justice of the peace. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for extending to the several Towns of Windsor, Annapolis, and Lunenburg, the Provisions of an Act, passed in the second year of the Reign of his present Majesty, entitled, “An Act for appointing Firewards, ascertaining their Duty, and for punishing Thefts and Disorders, at the Time of Fire;” and also, of the several Acts made in addition to, or amendment of, the said Act. |
33 George III – Chapter 7 |
1793 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1762, which extends the provisions of the act to several other towns outside of its originally intended jurisdiction, which was Halifax. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, made in the Fifth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, “An Act to enable the Inhabitants in the several Townships in this Province, (Halifax excepted) to cause any absent proprietor of lands within the same, to pay a dividend or proportion of any County or Town Charge, to be assessed according to law, and to bear their just proportion in repairing highways, roads and bridges, within the said Townships respectively.” |
33 George III – Chapter 6 |
1793 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1765, which specified the organization of labour or funds towards the maintenance and construction of roads, highways, and bridges. |
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| An Act to render and make valid, certain Marriages, heretofore solemnized before Magistrates, and other Lay Persons. |
33 George III – Chapter 5 |
1793 |
This act validates marriages that have been performed before magistrates who are not members of the clergy. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and in amendment of, an Act, passed in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty, entitled, “An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers.” |
33 George III – Chapter 4 |
1793 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1760, which allows the repairs of dykes and weirs to be undertaken by the commissioners of sewers so as to assure the proper maintenance of such structures, as they impact everyone who holds shares of the lands serviced by the said dykes and weirs. |
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| An Act to prevent obstruction of the Navigation in the Ports, Harbours, Rivers and Creeks, within this Province. |
33 George III – Chapter 3 |
1793 |
This act places a penalty on throwing ballast overboard in any of the ports, harbours, rivers or creeks of the province. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend, and render more productive, an Act passed in the Thirty-first year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to raise a Revenue, for the purpose of paying off all such Debts as are now due by the Province, or which shall become due before the first Day of July next, the funded Debt only excepted.” |
33 George III – Chapter 2 |
1793 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1791. The amendment has not been published. |
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| An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Wine, Rum, and all other Distilled Spirituous Liquors, and Brown Sugar, for the purpose of paying the Interest, and reducing the Principal, of the Public Debt of this Province. |
33 George III – Chapter 1 |
1793 |
This act modifies how the duties on spirits and sugars are collected in order to keep better track of how much revenue is being brought in by these taxes, and to better apply them to the province's debt. |
Early Canadiana Online |