Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act relating to Searchers and Sealers of Leather. | 8 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 2) | 1768 | Under this Act, leather must be viewed and stamped by a surveyor before being exposed to sale. Penalties for persons who do not abide by this Act or who counterfeit a stamp are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for enabling the Sale of Goods distrained for Rent. | 8 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1768 | This Act outlines the processes for and cases in which a tenant's goods and chattels are to be sold to satisfy sums owing for rent. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for impowering the Justices of the Peace for the County of Halifax, to hold a Court of Special Sessions of the Peace at Onslow in the said County, for the Towns of Truro, Onslow, and Londonderry. | 8 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1768 | This Act allows for a Special Court of General Sessions of the Peace to be held each year in Onslow. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to and further Amendment of an Act made in the Thirty Second Year of his late Majesty’s Reign, intitled An Act relating to Treasons and Felonies. | 8 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1768 | This Act outlines where murder or felony trials should take place if the crime involved several counties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the rating and levying of the Charges for conveying Malefactors and Offenders to the Goal. | 8 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 2) | 1768 | Early Canadiana Online | |
| An Act for giving like Remedy upon Promissory Notes, as is now used upon Bills of Exchange. | 8 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1768 | Under this Act, notes in writing for sums owed to another party should have the same effect as bills of exchange in order to allow the party owed to recover such sums in court. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further addition to and amendment of an Act, made in the third year of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the several Townships within this Province to maintain their Poor.” | 8 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 2) | 1768 | This Act further amends the 1763 Act, "An Act to enable the inhabitants of the several Townships in this province to maintain their poor," which was amended in the last session of parliament, to change the date that meetings are to be held as prescribed by the former Acts and to make provision for the recovery of forfeitures. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for determining Differences by Arbitration. | 8 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 1) | 1768 | This Act makes it lawful for all merchants and traders to avoid taking suits to court by arbitration and outlines penalties for persons found disobedient to the arbitration. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty a Duty on Wheel Carriages within the Peninsula of Halifax. | 7 George III – Chapter 13 (Session 1) | 1767 | This Act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain, amend, and reduce into one Act, the several Laws now in force relating to the Duties of Impost on Beer, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors. | 7 George III – Chapter 12 (Session 1) | 1767 | This Act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |