Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act, to prevent the Growth and increase of Thistles on the Lands in this Province. | 31 George III Chapter 6 | 1791 | This Act requires inhabitants to cut down thistles on their lands and makes provision for the appointment of inspectors to to enforce the terms of this Act. Penalties for persons who offend against this Act's terms are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Times of holding the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace in the District of Colchester, and to enable the Grand Juries in the said District to assess Monies for the purpose of erecting a Court House and Goal in said District, and for ascertaining the Boundaries for the said District. | 31 George III Chapter 5 | 1791 | This Act explains that court for the district of Colchester is to take place at Onslow every first Tuesday of April and every first Tuesday of January at Walmsley. The Act outlines the bounds of the district and makes provision for the court house and jail to be erected within it. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Justices of the Supreme Court and Justices of the Courts of Common Pleas, to issue Commissions for the examining of Witnesses out of the Province, and for the Regulation of Prisons therein. | 31 George III Chapter 4 | 1791 | Under this Act, it is made lawful for witnesses residing outside of the province to be heard in court and for Justices of the Supreme Court to regulate prisons and those working in them. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, passed in the First Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for the better Observation and keeping of the Lord’s Day.” | 31 George III Chapter 3 | 1791 | This Act clarifies that writs or process in civil suits are not to be served on the Lord's Day. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act, to provide for the future Maintenance of the Poor now maintained at the Province Expence. |
31 George III Chapter 2 | 1791 | This Act makes provision for the poor formerly maintained at the province's expense to be supported by the town of Halifax and grants the town a yearly sum of fifteen hundred pounds for this purpose. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act, in Addition to, and Amendment of an Act, made in the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for rating and levying the Expences attending the executing Writs of Partition.” | 31 George III Chapter 1 | 1791 | This Act amends the 1773 Act, "An Act for the rating and levying the Expences attending the executing Writs of Partition," relating to the sale of lands when the proprietor fails to pay their share of the expences outlined under the former Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “an Act for establishing a public Market House in Halifax, and for regulating the same,” also in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “an Act for building a public Slaughter House in the Town of Halifax, and for regulating the same.” | 30 George III Chapter 15 | 1790 | This Act amends the 1760 Acts, "An Act for establishing a public Market House in Halifax, and for regulating the same," and "An Act for building a public Slaughter House in the Town of Halifax, and for regulating the same," relating to how individuals, their servants, or their agents, are permitted to bring livestock into Halifax to butcher and sell. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving and continuing in Force the several Acts herein after mentioned. | 30 George III Chapter 14 | 1790 | This Act lists several recently expired acts, largely relating to the justice system or infrastructure, which are to be revived and remain in force until July 1791. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving, continuing and amending the several Acts for suppressing unlicensed Houses, and for granting to his Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed; as also for compelling Persons retailing Gunpowder within the Peninsula of Halifax, to take out a License for retailing the same. | 30 George III Chapter 13 | 1790 | This Act continues and amends several acts relating to licenses for persons retailing liquor and introduces a license for persons retailing gunpowder. The rates of duties on these licenses are described as well as penalties for persons found to be in defiance of this Act. This also discontinues the practice of allowing Justices to give licenses away for free or for a lower rate than proscribed by this Act. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act, intitled, “An Act for appointing Commissioners to superintend and direct the Maintenance and Support of certain Poor Persons known by the general Appellation of Transient Poor.” | 30 George III Chapter 12 | 1790 | This Act ends certain provincially-funded provisions made for the poor, including the work house in Halifax, and enacts that each town is to maintain their own poor. The processes by which each town should maintain their poor and processes for the transition from provincial to local are outlined, including how transient persons are to be removed from Halifax. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791. | Early Canadiana Online |