Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act in Amendment of an Act for Confirming Titles to Lands and Quieting Possessions. | 5 George III – Chapter 8 | 1765 | This Act amends the fees the Register or his deputy are permitted to collect under the 1758 Act, "An Act for confirming titles to lands and quieting possessions." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An act for Regulating Servants. | 5 George III – Chapter 7 | 1765 | This Act implements several measures to prevent bound and hired servants and apprentices from deserting their service without legal discharge. Servants whose masters or mistresses refuse to discharge them are permitted to apply to a Justice of the Peace who may rule on whether the reasons for refusal are sufficient. Punishments for servants who desert and for masters or mistresses who are found to treat their servants badly are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Raising Money by presentment on the several Counties in this Province, for the Defraying Certain County Charges therein mention’d. | 5 George III – Chapter 6 | 1765 | This Act makes it lawful for the grand juries in each county to make presentment upon all sums necessary for the construction or repairing of jails, courts, session houses, stocks, pillories, or pounds, and for providing bolts, shackles, and the conveying of persons to the county goal. The processes by which these sums are to be raised are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Inhabitants in the several Townships in this Province, (Halifax excepted) to cause any absent Proprietor of Lands within the same, to pay a Dividend or Proportion of any County or Town Charge to be assessed according to Law, and to bear their just Proportion in repairing Highways, Roads, and Bridges within the said Townships respectively. | 5 George III – Chapter 5 | 1765 | This Act requires non-resident proprietors to contribute labour or funds towards the maintenance and construction of roads, highways, and bridges. The processes by which this Act is to be enforced are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further Addition to and Amendment of an Act, made pass’d in the 34th Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for the appointing Commissioners of Sewers.” | 5 George III – Chapter 4 | 1765 | This Act amends the last clause of the 1763 Act, "An act in addition to, and amendment of an act, for the appointing commissioners of sewers," and makes provision to collect on assessments from proprietors having no goods or chattles. | 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 Windsor in said County, for the Townships of Windsor, Onslow, and Truro. | 5 George III – Chapter 3 | 1765 | This Act provides that the there will be a Special Court of General Sessions held in Windsor every year on the last Tuesday of June and the second Tuesday of October to hear all matters in the townships of Windsor, Onslow, and Truro. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to and Amendment of an Act, made and pass’d in the First Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for repairing and mending Highways, Roads, Bridges, and Streets,” and for appointing Surveyors of Highways, within the several Townships in this Province. | 5 George III – Chapter 2 | 1765 | This Act amends and makes additions to the 1761 Act, "An Act for repairing and mending Highways, Roads, Bridges, and Streets." The Act outlines standards for road and highway construction and the methods by which they are to be maintained. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Choice of Town Officers and Regulating Townships. | 5 George III – Chapter 1 | 1765 | This Act replaces the methods by which town officers, including fence viewers, constables, and surveyors, are to be appointed. The Act also establishes that boundary lines between townships should be renewed every three years and the processes by which this is to be done , and the processes by which unfenced lands should be marked. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the Laws of this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act permits the Treasurer the borrow a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred pounds to pay off bounties, premiums, and debts. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An act for discontinuing part of the Bounties and Premiums, granted by former Laws of this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act discontinues the bounties and premiums granted formerly by the Province except the bounty for building the stone walls on the peninsula of Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |