Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act further to continue, for a limited time, an Act passed in the fifty-fifth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to grant New Duties to His Majesty to supply the wants of the Province.” (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 5 | 1819 | An act to further continue an act originally passed in 1815 and continued in 1817. The original act imposed new duties on items including varies teas, wines, molasses, and syrups. The rates of these duties were also set. The act also specified the processes by which licenses for auctioning the goods subject to these duties are to be obtained, including the oath or affirmation auctioneers must swear to when rendering their accounts to the Receiver General. The act and all things therein contained are continued in force until 1821. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, for granting a Drawback of the Duties on Brown or Raw Sugar used in the manufacture of Refined Sugar within the Province, and for regulating the mode of obtaining the same. | 59 George III – Chapter 5 | 1819 | This Act continues an Act allowing a drawback on duties on sugar to be manufactured within the province, which act is to remain in force until 18 March 1820. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impose duties on divers articles therein mentioned, and to regulate, for a limited time, the Trade with the United-States of America, by Land or by Inland Navigation, and to suspend certain Acts and Ordinances therein-mentioned. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 4 | 1819 | An Act to impose duties on articles including grains, ship timber, fruits, among others. Any articles not prohibited by this or any other acts in force are allowed to be traded from or into the United States exempt from duties except where imposed by this Act. Rates for duties and the articles to which they apply are outlined. The Act also suspends several former ordinances. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly for granting to His Majesty certain duties on Wine, Brandy, Gin, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, Molasses, Coffee, and Brown Sugar, for the support of His Majesty’s Government, and for promoting the Agriculture, Commerce and Fisheries, of this Province. | 59 George III – Chapter 4 | 1819 | This Act continues two acts relating to trade duties on certain articles, which are to remain in force until 18 March 1820. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to secure the Inhabitants of the Inferior District of Gaspé in the possession and enjoyment of their Lands. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 3 | 1819 | An act to appoint commissioners to hear applications from people holding or claiming to hold lands in the District of Gaspé in order to rule on the legitimacy of these claims. The manner in which the commissioners will be appointed, and the process by which land claims can be made, are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several acts imposing a Duty on Articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. | 59 George III – Chapter 3 | 1819 | This Act continues a former Act imposing duties on goods imported from the United States until March 18 1820. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue for a limited time, and to amend, an Act passed in the forty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the better regulation of the Militia of this Province, and for repealing certain Acts or Ordinances therein-mentioned.” (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 2 | 1819 | An act to amend an act originally passed in 1803, amended in 1812, and revived in 1817. The amended act declares that all men between the ages of eighteen and fifty are to be militia men, bound to serve in their division's militia. This act repeals forty-first section of the original act, which had permitted the acceptance of volunteers. The original act outlines who is to be excepted from this law, how order is to be maintained, and how these men are to be enrolled and trained. The act is to expire in 1821. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a Duty of Excise on all Goods, Wares and Merchandise, imported into this Province. | 59 George III – Chapter 2 | 1819 | This Act continues a former act for collecting duties on goods until March 18 1820. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly, for raising a Revenue to repair the Roads throughout the Province, by laying a duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed to keep Public Houses for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. | 59 George III – Chapter 1 | 1819 | A continuation of several past acts which impose taxes on public houses in order to pay for road repair across the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the encouragement of the Cod and Scale Fisheries of the Province. | 58 George III – Chapter 35 | 1818 | This Act explains the processes by which cod and scale fish should be inspected and how bounties on the same will be distributed. | Early Canadiana Online |