Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to alter the sittings of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in the District of Pictou and County of Sydney, in the Eastern Division, and in the County of King’s County, in the Middle Division, of the Province. | 6 George IV – Chapter 34 | 1825 | This act changes the times at which the courts of common pleas and general sessions in Pictou and Sydney counties are held. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, amend and continue, the Act for granting a Drawback of the Duties on Brown or Raw Sugar, used in the manufacture of Refined Sugars, within the Province; and for regulating the mode of obtaining the same. | 6 George IV – Chapter 33 | 1825 | This Act continues and amends an Act allowing a drawback on duties on sugar to be manufactured within the province. The amendment allows for a drawback on molasses used in the manufacture of sugars in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend and continue an Act, made and passed in the thirty-eighth year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to amend and render more effectual, an Act, passed in the eighteenth year of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, ‘An Act to prevent forestalling, regrating and monopolizing, of Cord Wood in the Town of Halifax;’” and also, the Act, now in force, in addition thereto. | 6 George IV – Chapter 32 | 1825 | The continuation of an act first passed in 1778 and amended in 1798, which prevented the sale of cord wood for any price over fifteen shillings per cord. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, passed in the fourth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the Jurisdiction of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas within the County of Cape-Breton, and to fix and establish the times and places for holding the said Inferior Court and General Sessions of the Peace in and for the said County." | 6 George IV – Chapter 31 | 1825 | An amendment to an act passed in 1823, which allows for the division of Cape Breton into three separate districts which will each have its own inferior court and general sessions of the peace. The amendment changes the date on which the general sessions of the peace for the western district are held, to the first Tuesday of October. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act in addition to an Act, passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, entitled, “An Act for regulating the rates and prices of Carriages.” | 6 George IV – Chapter 30 | 1825 | A continuation of an amended 1759 act passed in 1809, which restricts the price that can be demanded by owners of trucks, carts, and other carriages and provides for a table of allowable rates to be drawn up. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, passed in the fifty-first year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to amend an Act, passed in the twentieth year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act for establishing a Public School in the Town of Halifax.’” | 6 George IV – Chapter 29 | 1825 | A continuation of an act passed in 1811, which was an amendment to an act first passed in 1780. The original act granted a sum of money for the erection of a public school in Halifax, and established various regulations concerning the running of said school. The amendment concerns the number of boys to be sent to the school without having to pay tuition, the appointment of commissioners, and the dismissal of school masters or ushers who refuse to follow the regulations as set out by the commissioners. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and continue the several Acts to provide for the greater security of the Province, by a better regulation of the Militia, and to repeal the Militia Laws now in force. | 6 George IV – Chapter 28 | 1825 | A continuation of an 1821 act, which consolidated all past militia laws in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, entitled, “An Act to repeal the several Acts of the General Assembly, passed to prevent forestalling, regrating and monopolizing.” | 6 George IV – Chapter 27 | 1825 | A continuation of an act passed in 1824, which repealed two acts - one passed in 1758 and the other in 1766, both dealing with how and where fresh produce and livestock can be sold and when. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and continue the several Acts relating to the Light-House erected on Cranberry Island, near the entrance of the Gut of Canso. | 6 George IV – Chapter 26 | 1825 | A continuation and amendment of an act first passed in 1822 which establishes a duty to be collected at all harbours adjacent to the gut of Canso to support the Cranberry Island lighthouse. The amendment changes the amount paid by British ships exceeding sixty-five tons in burthen from a fee every time they use the Canso strait, to an annual fee of twenty shillings. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, entitled, “An Act more effectually to secure the payment of the Provincial Duties of Excise, and to prevent Frauds in the Collection of the Provincial Revenue.” | 6 George IV – Chapter 25 | 1825 | A continuation of an act passed in 1822, which imposes harsher penalties for merchants who try to sell imported goods which are subject to import tax without having paid the applicable duties in order to impede the smuggling occurring in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |