Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to provide for the Support and Maintenance of his Majesty’s Government in this Province by reviving, amending and continuing the several Laws for raising a Revenue hereinafter particularly mentioned and expressed. | 30 George III Chapter 11 | 1790 | This Act revives several acts relating to import and excise duties, including “An Act for the more effectually raising a Revenue within this Province, for the Support of its Government,” which had recently expired. The Act also outlines some amendments, including the rates of duties on wines, sugar, beer, and teas. This Act is to remain in force until July 1791. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide a suitable Place for the General Assembly and King’s Courts to sit in, and for other public Purposes. | 30 George III Chapter 10 | 1790 | This Act outlines how commissioners should be appointed to oversee the leasing of a building near the Government House to serve as a court house to replace the building destroyed by a recent fire. Allowable sums for furnishing the building and the processes by which the lease is to be executed are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act made in the fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intitled, “An Act for the raising Money by Presentment on the several Counties in this Province, for the defraying certain County Charges therein mentioned.” | 30 George III Chapter 9 | 1790 | This Act amends the 1765 Act, "An Act for the Raising Money by presentment on the several Counties in this Province, for the Defraying Certain County Charges therein mention’d," to define how Clerks of the Peace should be paid for certain services. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act for regulating the manner of issuing Process and Execution from the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas for the several Counties in this Province, and for altering the Form of the Summons heretofore used by his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, also in Amendment and declaratory of the Act for the Summary Trials of Actions. | 30 George III Chapter 8 | 1790 | This Act amends the processes by which summons are to be executed and the ways that the summons are to be directed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers.” | 30 George III Chapter 7 | 1790 | This Act amends the 1760 Act, "An Act for appointing Commissioners of Sewers" relating to the rates Commissioners can charge proprietors for their work and the processes by which the sum owed is to be decided. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering and adding to the Times appointed for holding the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in the Town and County of Shelburne. | 30 George III Chapter 6 | 1790 | This Act amends the times at which the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace are to take place in Shelbourne. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of Act relating to Wills, Legacies and Executors, and for the Settlement and Distribution of Estates of Intestates, and to enable Executors and Administrators the more speedily to settle the Estate of the Deceased. | 30 George III Chapter 5 | 1790 | This Act limits the period in which persons can make claims on the estate of the deceased for debts owing to two and a half years. The processes by which these claims are to be made and the executor's duties are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise certain Commissioners to dispose of the Building wherein the General Assembly now fits; and also to adjust the Debt due from the Province to the Public School at Halifax. | 30 George III Chapter 4 | 1790 | This Act makes provision for a former assembly house to be sold and the funds from the sale to be used to pay part of a debt owing to the public school at Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent the destroying or defacing Mile-Posts, Mile-Boards or Mile-Stones, erected or to be erected within this Province. | 30 George III Chapter 3 | 1790 | This Act imposes a fine on persons found to deface, displace, or otherwise injure mile markers and outlines penalties for persons not able to pay the fine. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act, intitled, “An Act for the more speedy and effectually collecting such Town Rates and Taxes as may be assessed on the Inhabitants of the town of Halifax.” | 30 George III Chapter 2 | 1790 | This Act amends a former Act to reduce to the sums allowed to collectors as compensation for their services. | Early Canadiana Online |