Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the several Townships within this Province, to Maintain their Poor. | 3 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act describes how townships are to be assessed and sums granted to the freeholders of each town for the maintenance of their poor. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, intitled, An Act for Regulating the Proceedings of the Courts of Judicature. | 3 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act outlines how creditors can collect on debts owing from insolvent persons and penalties for insolvent debtors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering and amending several Acts of this Province, relating to the Duties of Excise on Wines, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors sold within this Province. | 3 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 1) | 1763 | An amendment of several past acts regarding taxes placed on various alcoholic beverages when sold in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. | 3 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act outlines how creditors can collect on debts owing from insolvent persons and penalties for insolvent debtors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering and amending several Acts of this Province relating to the Duties of Impost upon, Wines, Beer, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors. | 3 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1763 | An amendment to past acts regarding taxes and duties placed on the sale of liquor and alcoholic drinks. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer, to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Four Thousand Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the laws of this Province. | 3 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act provides a sum not exceeding four thousand pounds to cover the debts that impost and excise duties were insufficient to pay. The terms under which this sum can be used are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further addition to and Amendment of an Act intitled, “An Act for suppressing unlicensed Houses and for Granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed.” | 3 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1763 | This is an amendment to a past act which places regulations and licensing fees on individuals who sell alcohol in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Enable Proprietors of Lands, to Assess and Discharge the Expence, which has Accrued upon Dividing their Lands, by Virtue of a Former Law of this Province. | 3 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1763 | Under this Act, proprietors who have divided their lands according to the 1759 Act, “An Act to enable Proprietors to divide their lands, held in common and undivided” are to pay the expences arising from the division and how expences are to be recovered if proprietors refuse or neglect to pay. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent Frauds in selling of Beef, Pork, Flour, and Biscuit, or Ship-Bread in Casks. | 3 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1763 | This act places a regulatory weight on beef, pork, flour, biscuit, and ship-bread being sold by the barrel in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent Nusances, by Hedges, Wears, and other Incumbrances, Obstructing the Passage of Fish in the Rivers in this Province. | 3 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act prohibits persons in the province from building fish weirs, hedges, fish garths, or other obstructions that may prevent fish from spawning. | Early Canadiana Online |