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 continuing the several Laws mentioned therein, and also for altering the Impost Law hereby continued. | 26 George III – Chapter 3 | 1786 | This Act revives and continues the 1785 Act, "An Act to encourage and extend the export of Fish, Lumber and other Produce of this Province to the West Indies, and also to revive, alter and continue the several Laws relating to the Duties of Impost on Beer, Rum and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, which Laws expired the Thirty First Day of December, 1784," the Acts revived therein, and a few other Acts relating mainly to trade which are to remain in force until the end of 1787. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering the Time appointed for holding the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in the County of Hants in the Spring of the Year. | 26 George III – Chapter 2 | 1786 | This Act changes the times at which court will be held in Windsor, in the county of Hants, to the first Tuesday of April and last Tuesday of October to better accommodate the harvest and planting seasons. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for relieving His Majesty’s Subjects professing the Popish Religion from certain Penalties and Disabilities imposed on them by the Act of the General-Assembly of this Province, made in the sixth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign intitled, “An Act concerning Schools and Schoolmasters.” | 26 George III – Chapter 1 | 1786 | This Act amends the 1766 Act, "An Act concerning Schools and Schoolmasters," to repeal penalties placed on Catholics who set up schools. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for continuing An Act of the General Assembly of this Province intitled, “an Act for more effectually raising a Revenue within this Province for the support of its Government,” as also for continuing and explaining an Act intitled, “an Act for more effectually raising a Duty of Excise on Wine, Rum, and certain other enumerated Articles, and for preventing Frauds in the Collection of Revenue.” | 26 George III – Chapter 6 | 1785 | This Act repeals a section of an act passed in the last session of assembly, “An Act for more effectually Raising a Duty of Excise on Wine, Rum, and certain other enumerated Articles, and for preventing Frauds in the Collection of the Revenue for Explanation thereof,” and continues the rest of the Act until 1787. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an amendment of an Act for establishing and regulating Ferries. | 26 George III – Chapter 5 | 1785 | Early Canadiana Online | |
| An Act for continuing the several Laws therein mentioned. | 26 George III – Chapter 4 | 1785 | This Act continues several acts listed, relating largely to impost and excise duties as well as tolls, which are to remain in force until 1787. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage and extend the export of Fish, Lumber and other Produce of this Province to the West Indies, and also to revive, alter and continue the several Laws relating to the Duties of Impost on Beer, Rum and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, which Laws expired the Thirty First Day of December, 1784. | 26 George III – Chapter 3 | 1785 | This Act revives and amends several acts relating to impost and excise duties on beer, rum, wine, and other spirituous liquors, as well as on molasses and sugars. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to empower the Justices of the Peace to hold Special Courts of Sessions for the Purposes therein mentioned. | 26 George III – Chapter 2 | 1785 | Under this Act, Justices of the Peace are empowered to call special courts or courts of sessions to try and determine criminal offences that do not extend to life and limb in order to reduce the time persons committed to jail are held in confinement. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for establishing the Times and place of holding the several Courts of Justice therein mentioned in the County of Cumberland. | 26 George III – Chapter 1 | 1785 | This Act describes when the courts of justice are to be held in Amherst each year. The Act also specifies the terms allowable between the issue of judgements, writs, and other process and when they are to be returnable. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to exempt all Molasses, Rum and other distilled Spirituous Liquors imported in to this Province, or purchased for the Use of his Majesty’s Careening Yard or Navy, from paying the several Impost Duties imposed thereon by the Laws of this Province. | 25 George III Chapter 11 | 1784 | This Act exempts the navy and careening yard from duties levied on certain goods as imposed by former Acts. This Act is to remain in force until 1786. | Early Canadiana Online |