Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to authorise the appointing Commissioners for Light-Houses. | 56 George III – Chapter 13 | 1816 | This Act makes provision for three commissioners to be appointed and charged with keeping the lighthouses on the province’s coasts staffed, in good repair, and sufficiently supplied. Associated costs are to be covered by light duties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act Granting Relief to Charlotte Overholt. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 13 | 1816 | This act provides a pension for Charlotte Overholt, the widow of Abraham Overholt, a soldier killed during the war of 1812. The preamble of the act specifies that he was not killed in action but rather "died under peculiar circumstances" and therefore Mrs. Overhold does not fall under the 1813 act allowing for widows of soldiers to be granted an annuity; this act makes an exception within the law to provide for her. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and continue an Act 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. | 56 George III – Chapter 12 | 1816 | This Act continues an act setting rates of duties on certain goods for support of the government and for promoting certain industries within the province. The act amends the duty placed on rum distilled within the province. These acts are to remain in force until March 18, 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act Granting relief to Catharine McLeod. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 12 | 1816 | This act grants an annuity to Catherine McLeod, mother of a soldier killed in action in 1813, as per an act passed in 1813 called "An act to provide for the maintenance of persons disabled, and the Widows and Children of such persons as may be killed in His Majesty's service." | 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. | 56 George III – Chapter 11 | 1816 | This Act continues several former acts relating to excise duties which are to remain in force until 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and amend an Act passed in the fifty-second year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled “An Act to prevent Damage to Travellers on the Highways in this Province. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 11 | 1816 | This act continues for four years an act first passed in 1812 which created driving regulations on provincial highways so as to prevent accidents and injuries, and penalties for their violation, with the exception of the 4th and sixth clauses, which are repealed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the encouragement of the Trade of this Province, in Plaister of Paris, otherwise called Gypsum. | 56 George III – Chapter 10 | 1816 | This Act sets out several regulations relating to trade in gypsum and for ships coming into the province carrying gypsum. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal part of and to continue and amend an Act passed in the fifty fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act for Granting to His Majesty an additional Duty on Shop and Tavern Licences. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 10 | 1816 | An amendment to an act regulating shop and tavern licenses, further requiring them to maintain a yard large enough to accommodate horses and carts or sleighs. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act to give power to the Firewards of the Town of Halifax, to prevent dangerous Quantities of Gunpowder being kept within the said Town and Harbour thereof, to the Town of Windsor. | 56 George III – Chapter 9 | 1816 | This Act extends the provisions of a former Act meant to prevent accidents caused by gun powder to the town of Windsor. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Remuneration of the Honorable William Dummer Powell, Esquire, for certain services rendered to this Province. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 9 | 1816 | This act permits the payment of one thousand pounds to a certain William Drummer, for having surveyed lands within the province in order to determine title. | Early Canadiana Online |