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 for altering the time of holding the Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, and for chusing Town Officers for King’s County. | 39 George III – Chapter 6 | 1799 | This act amends the time and frequency of the court of common pleas of King's county. It also details the method and frequency for choosing town officers. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide Houses of Correction in the several Districts of this Province. [3d June, 1799.] | 39 George III Chapter 6 | 1799 | This act allows for the expansion of several district correction houses due to want of space. It also specifies the number of vagabonds, disorderly persons, and other minor criminals to be held in each district correction house at once, in preference for those who are convicted of more serious charges. Capital crimes are defined, as well as the treatment of prisoners who have been convicted of a capital crime, what crimes shall result in hard labour, and other various matters regarding prisoners in district criminal houses. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the better regulation of the Circuit Courts, and for granting new Trials in Causes brought up from the Inferior Courts. | 39 George III – Chapter 5 | 1799 | This act amends when and how often the circuit courts will be held in the counties of Hants, Kings and Annapolis. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend An Act passed in the thirty sixth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for making, repairing and altering the Highways and Bridges, within this Province, and for other purposes.” [3d June, 1799] | 39 George III Chapter 5 | 1799 | This act specifies roads to be build and/or repaired, specifies government funds to be disbursed in order to pay for these roads, states where these roads are going to be and who is responsible for the building and maintenance of said roads. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, made in the third year of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the several Townships in this Province to maintain their Poor.” | 39 George III – Chapter 4 | 1799 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1763, which regulated how townships were to be assessed and sums granted to the freeholders of each town for the maintenance of their poor. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to ratify, approve and confirm, certain additional Provisional Articles of Agreement entered into by the Respective Commissioners of this Province and the Province of Upper Canada, on the eleventh day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. [3d. June, 1799.] |
39 George III Chapter 4 | 1799 | This act ratifies articles negotiated by commissioners appointed by the respective legislative assemblies of Upper and Lower Canada concerning trade between the provinces. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, passed in the first year of his present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to prevent the spreading of contagious Distempers,” and also in amendment of an Act, passed in the sixteenth year of the said Reign, entitled, “An Act in addition to the before recited Act.” | 39 George III – Chapter 3 | 1799 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1761, and subsequently amended. The current amendment expands the power to quarantine any foreign vessel arriving in any of the province's ports should be quarantined for as long as should be deemed safest by the governor, lieutenant-governor, or commander-in-chief rather than a pre-determined number of days. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue, for a limited time, An Act passed in the thirty seventh year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the better preservation of His Majesty’s Government as by Law happily established in this Province,” [3d. June, 1799] | 39 George III Chapter 3 | 1799 | This act renews an act first passed in 1797, which defines the terms under which certain persons can seek justice under Habeas Corpus. It is renewed without modification. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the sale of Glebe I and in the Township of Granville, and for purchasing another Estate, as a perpetual Glebe, for the resident Minister of the established Church, in said Township. | 39 George III – Chapter 2 | 1799 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue An Act passed in the Thirty sixth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled “An Act for making a temporary Provision for the Regulation of Trade, between this Province and the United States of America, by Land or Inland Navigation.” [3d June, 1799.] | 39 George III Chapter 2 | 1799 | This act renews an act first passed in 1796, regulating all forms of trade between the province and the United States. The act is passed without any modifications. | Early Canadiana Online |