Legislation by Province: Nova Scotia (1758-1825**)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers.” | 30 George III Chapter 7 | 1790 | This Act amends the 1760 Act, "An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers" relating to the rates Commissioners can charge proprietors for their work and the processes by which the sum owed is to be decided. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering and adding to the Times appointed for holding the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in the Town and County of Shelburne. | 30 George III Chapter 6 | 1790 | This Act amends the times at which the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace are to take place in Shelbourne. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of Act relating to Wills, Legacies and Executors, and for the Settlement and Distribution of Estates of Intestates, and to enable Executors and Administrators the more speedily to settle the Estate of the Deceased. | 30 George III Chapter 5 | 1790 | This Act limits the period in which persons can make claims on the estate of the deceased for debts owing to two and a half years. The processes by which these claims are to be made and the executor's duties are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise certain Commissioners to dispose of the Building wherein the General Assembly now fits; and also to adjust the Debt due from the Province to the Public School at Halifax. | 30 George III Chapter 4 | 1790 | This Act makes provision for a former assembly house to be sold and the funds from the sale to be used to pay part of a debt owing to the public school at Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent the destroying or defacing Mile-Posts, Mile-Boards or Mile-Stones, erected or to be erected within this Province. | 30 George III Chapter 3 | 1790 | This Act imposes a fine on persons found to deface, displace, or otherwise injure mile markers and outlines penalties for persons not able to pay the fine. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for the more speedy and effectually collecting such Town Rates and Taxes as may be assessed on the Inhabitants of the town of Halifax.” | 30 George III Chapter 2 | 1790 | This Act amends a former Act to reduce to the sums allowed to collectors as compensation for their services. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend the Act, intitled, “An Act for appointing Firewards and ascertaining their Duty, and for punishing Thefts and Disorders at the Time of Fire,” and also in Amendment of the several Acts made in Amendment or Addition to said recited Act, and to extend the several Provisions therein contained to the Town of Shelburne. | 30 George III Chapter 1 | 1790 | This Act amends the 1762 Act, “An Act for appointing Firewards and ascertaining their Duty, and for punishing Thefts and Disorders at the Time of Fire,” as amended in 1782. The Act reduces the fine imposed on persons who neglect to sweep their chimnies and makes provision for several more firewards to be appointed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Services of the Year One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty-nine, and for appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of General Assembly, and for funding the Province Debt. | 29 George III – Chapter 17 | 1789 | This act puts in place measures to not only pay the expenses of the government for the year, but also to pay off part of the provincial debt. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for continuing in Force the several Acts herein after mentioned. | 29 George III – Chapter 16 | 1789 | This act continues three separate acts and the acts which relate to them. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Support of His Majesty’s Government in this Province by amending and continuing the several Laws for raising a Revenue as are herein after particularly mentioned and expressed. | 29 George III – Chapter 15 | 1789 | This act continues several past act specifying duties and taxes to be charged on wine, spirits, and molasses, and amends some of the rules concerning who is liable to pay these duties as well as who is responsible for collecting them. | Early Canadiana Online |