| An Act for the Establishment of Free Schools and the Advancement of Learning in this Province. |
41 George III Chapter 17 |
1801 |
This Act establishes the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, sets aside monies for the construction and maintenance of school houses, and lays out instructions for the appointment of school masters. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, passed in the Thirty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An act for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a Duty of Excise on all Goods, Wares and Merchandise, imported into this Province;” and also the Act in amendment thereof, passed in the last Session of General Assembly, entitled, “An Act to alter, amend and continue, an Act, made and passed in the Thirty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a Duty of Excise on all Goods, Wares and Merchandise, imported into this Province.’” |
41 George III – Chapter 17 |
1801 |
This act was not published. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for removing the old Walls and Fortifications that surround the City of Montreal, and otherwise to provide for the Salubrity, Convenience and Embellishment of the said City. |
41 George III Chapter 16 |
1801 |
This Act sets out provisions for removing the walls and fortifications around Montreal, and outlines how the lands then occupied by the walls and fortifications will be sold. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, made and passed in the Twenty-ninth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for the better support of the Poor in the respective Counties within this Province, by laying an Impost Duty on articles imported into this Province, from the United States of America.” |
41 George III – Chapter 16 |
1801 |
This act was not published. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to declare the Decisory Oath or Servient Décisoire, admissible Commercial as well as other Civil Matters in this Province. |
41 George III Chapter 15 |
1801 |
An Act to allow and admit the Decisory Oath in commercial matters and in civil matters in agreement with the laws and customs of Lower Canada's courts. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, continue and amend, an Act, passed in the Thirty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the Summary Trial of Actions, before His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax.” |
41 George III – Chapter 15 |
1801 |
This act revives and amends an act first passed in 1792, which outlines the processes by which civil actions or suits should be tried in the county of Halifax and the rotation of justices to serve. This Act is to remain in force for one year. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty certain new Duties on the importation into this Province, of all Manufactured Tobacco and Snuff, and for disallowing the Drawback, on Tobacco Manufactured within this Province. (8th April, 1801) |
41 George III Chapter 14 |
1801 |
This Act outlines the rates and duties applied to imported tobacco and repeals abated duties in Quebec City, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Security of Navigation, and for preserving all Ships, Vessels and Goods, which may be found on shore, wrecked or stranded upon the coasts of this Province, and for punishing persons who shall steal Shipwrecked Goods, and for the relief of persons suffering loss thereby. |
41 George III – Chapter 14 |
1801 |
This act imposes penalties for anyone who should try to claim goods they find on shore without being able to prove they are not from a shipwreck, or they do not own them. The act includes provisions for issuing warrants to search for concealed goods which may have been seized from the shore after a shipwreck in order to return them to their rightful owners. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty, a Duty on Licencing Billiard Tables for hire and for regulating the same. (8th April, 1801) |
41 George III Chapter 13 |
1801 |
An Act to implement a licensing system for billiard tables enacted in response to an increase in the number of billiard tables throughout the province. All revenue from the license fees are to be collected by the Secretary of the Province, his deputy, or agent and put in the King's treasury. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| Acte qui accorde à Sa Majesté un droit sur les Licences de Billard de Louage, et qui fait des règlemens relatifs à iceux. (8me Avril, 1801.) |
41 George III Chapter 13 |
1801 |
|
Early Canadiana Online |