Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online

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Title Chapter Date Passed Legislative Summary Source Document
An Act to encourage and diffuse the practice of Vaccine Inoculation. (25th March, 1815.) 55 George III Chapter 6 1815 An Act to apply the sum of one thousand pounds through the districts of Quebec, Montrèal, Trois-Rivières, and Gaspé to defray the expenses necessary for diffusing the practice of vaccine inoculation. The processes by which physicians or surgeons will be appointed to administer vaccines, as well as procedural stipulations they are to abide by are outlined. Early Canadiana Online
An Act in amendment of an Act, passed in the last Session of the General Assembly, entitled, “An Act to enable the Proprietors to repair the Meeting-House at Truro; to enclose the Burying Place belonging to the same;” and also to assess Monies for defraying the expences thereof. 55 George III – Chapter 5 1815 An amendment to an act first passed in 1814, which allowed the proprietors of the Truro meeting-house to raise funds to conduct repairs to their building. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to regulate Persons engaged in the Business or Trade of baking and selling Bread within the Cities of Quebec and Montreal and in the Town of Three Rivers, and to repeal an Ordinance therein mentioned. (25th March, 1815.) 55 George III Chapter 5 1815 Under this Act, any person found baking and selling bread without a license is subject to certain penalties. Directions for the distribution of licenses are outlined, as well as stipulations relating to the production and sale of bread. This Act is to expire in 1817. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to repeal the first clause of an Act, made in the twenty-eighth year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act in amendment of an Act, made in the twenty-first year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act in addition to an Act, made in the tenth year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, an Act for establishing the Toll to be taken at the several Grist Mills in this Province.’” 55 George III – Chapter 4 1815 This Act repeals the first clause of an act passed in 1787, which was an amendment to an act first passed in 1770. The original act dealt with the toll rates for bolting in order to cover the costs of erecting and repairing bolting machines. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue an Act passed in Forty-second Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to empower the Justices of the Peace, to make for a limited time, Rules and Regulations for the Government of Apprentices and others.” (25th March, 1815.) 55 George III Chapter 4 1815 An act to extend “An Act to empower the Justices of the peace to make for a limited time Rules and Regulations for the Government of Apprentices and others,” originally passed in 1802 and extended in 1811. The original act granted Justices of the Peace the authority to regulate apprentices, domestics, hired servants, journeymen, and their masters and mistresses. It outlined the permissible punishments for apprentices, domestics, hired servants, or journeymen who break the rules and regulations. This act is continued until 1817. 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. 55 George III – Chapter 3 1815 A continuation of several past acts relating to the imposition of duties on imported goods. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to grant new Duties to His Majesty, to supply the wants of the Province. (25th March, 1815.) 55 George III Chapter 3 1815 An act to impose new duties on items including varies teas, wines, molasses, and syrups. The rates of these duties are set. The act also specifies 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. Early Canadiana Online
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. 55 George III – Chapter 2 1815 A much more comprehensive act imposing various duties on wines and spirits than past acts, including a list of the types of items to be charged duty and the rates to be charged. The act also includes a long list of clauses which details the duties of the various officials involved in collecting and disbursing the rates, the oaths to be taken from those importing goods into the province, and rules for reporting quantities of spirits distilled within the province by distillers. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to repeal part of and amend an Act passed in the Fifty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to grant certain Duties, to His Majesty towards supplying the wants of the Province during the present war with the United States of America and for other purposes.” (25th March, 1815.) 55 George III Chapter 2 1815 An act to repeal parts of an act passed in 1813 that imposed a two pound ten shillings duty on every hundred pounds worth of goods as defined by the act. The act was originally set to expire in 1818. This act redefines what articles are subject to this duty. Early Canadiana Online
An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned, for the Service of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifteen; and for appropriating such part of the Supplies granted in this Session of the General Assembly, as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province. 55 George III – Chapter 1 1815 This act allocates government funds to various purposes, such as paying clerks who have served the house of assembly, to money owed to individual militia officers, and other sundry payments to those who rendered services to the government. Early Canadiana Online