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 to repeal an Act of the General Assembly intitled “an Act in Addition to the several Acts of this Province, made for regulating the Militia, and more particularly, an Act made in the second Year of His present Majesty’s Reign intitled, an Act for the better regulating the Militia on actual Service in Time of War.” | 16 George III – Chapter 5 | 1776 | This act repeals the 1775 act, "An Act in Addition to the several Acts of this Province, made for regulating the Militia, and more particularly an Act made in the Second Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intitled, An Act for the better regulating the Militia on actual Service in Time of War," which added various clarifications to past Militia legislation. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering the Times appointed for holding the Supreme Court. | 16 George III – Chapter 4 | 1776 | This act determines the dates on which the Supreme Court of the province will hold their sessions. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for taking, examining, and stating the public Accounts of this Province. | 16 George III – Chapter 3 | 1776 | This act defines a procedure for taking account of the money coming into the government through taxes, and the money going out due to claims and demands being made on the treasury. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, made in the Thirteenth Year of his present Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to issue other Notes in exchange for such Notes as have been issued heretofore, in Virtue of the several Loan Acts made by the General Assembly of this Province, and are defaced and worn.” | 16 George III – Chapter 2 | 1776 | An amendment to a 1773 act, which makes provision for notes that are defaced or worn to be exchanged, as well as for notes for small sums to be exchanged for larger ones. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to the several Acts, made by the General Assembly of this Province, to enable the several Townships within the same to maintain their Poor. | 16 George III – Chapter 1 | 1776 | This act allows for local Justices of the Peace in Halifax to assess how much money is required to support the poor of the town and fine local residents accordingly, if local residents fail to independently raise enough money themselves. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering the Time of sitting and holding the Supreme Court, in King’s County, and at the Counties of Annapolis and Cumberland in the Spring Circuit of the Year 1776. | 15 George III – Chapter 12 (Session 2) | 1775 | This act sets the dates of the supreme court sessions of Kings county for the year 1776. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for continuing several Acts that are near expiring. | 15 George III – Chapter 11 (Session 2) | 1775 | This act continues several past acts, including an act regarding bail, forms of writ, and the establishment of fees. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to, and Amendment of, an Act made in the Third Year of his present Majesty’s Reign, intitled, An Act to prevent Nuisances by Hedges, Wears and other Incumbrances obstructing the Passage of Fish in the Rivers in this Province. | 15 George III – Chapter 10 (Session 2) | 1775 | An amendment of a 1763 act which prohibits persons in the province from building fish weirs, hedges, fish garths, or other obstructions that may prevent fish from spawning. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act made in the Fifteenth Year of his present Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act to prevent for a limited Time the Exportation of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Flour, Meal and Pease, From this Province.” | 15 George III – Chapter 9 (Session 2) | 1775 | Although the act states that it is a continuation of an act passed in the fifteenth year of George III, it is in fact referring to an act passed in 1774, the fourteenth year of George III - "An Act to prevent for a limited Time the Exportation of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Flour, Meal and Pease from this Province." The original act was set to expire in 1776. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable certain persons, therein named, to state an account of the work done in the Township of Truro, for repair of Dykes and Roads, since the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty one, and to oblige the persons concerned in the same to pay their proportion of the said expense. | 15 George III – Chapter 9 (Session 1) | 1775 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |