Legislation by Source Document: National Archive of the United Kingdom
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for appointing Firewards, ascertaining their Duty, and for punishing Thefts and Disorders at the Time of Fire. | 2 George III – Chapter 5 | 1762 | This Act makes provision for the appointment of up to ten persons to serve as firewards in Halifax. Their duties and the spear they are to carry and badge they are to wear are described. The Act also makes provision for persons suffering damages by fire to be compensated. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act to prevent the Firing of Squibs, Rockets, Serpents or other Fireworks. | 2 George III – Chapter 4 | 1762 | This Act prohibits the making, sale, and firing of squibs, rockets, serpents, or other fireworks and makes it so offences are to be judged as a common nuisance. Penalties for those who offend against this Act are described. This Act also prohibits bonfires within three hundred yards of any buildings, stacks of hay, or corn. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for Preventing fraudulent Dealings in the Trade with the Indians. | 2 George III – Chapter 3 | 1762 | This Act directs that persons accused of having wronged or cheated Indigenous traders are to be prosecuted in before His Majesty's Justices or in a Court of Record. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act to enable the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander in Chief, to borrow the sum of Four Thousand Five Hundred Pounds for paying off the Public Debts, and to postpone the Payment of Bounties and Premiums. | 2 George III – Chapter 2 | 1762 | This Act provides a sum not exceeding four thousand five hundred pounds to pay off several accounts for public works carried on in previous years. This sum is to be repaid to the treasurer from the duties collected on beer, wine, rum, and other spirituous liquors. This Act also suspends bounties and premiums on fish, hay, oats, stone walls, hemp and flax for one year. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for the Regulating Innholders, Tavernkeepers, and Retailers of Spirituous Liquors. | 2 George III – Chapter 1 | 1762 | This Act limits the amount tavernkeepers can put on someone's tab and makes provision for patrons to recover their loss if a tavernkeeper refuses to return a pawn or pledge left for security. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for suppressing unlicensed Houses, and for granting to His Majesty a Duty on Persons hereafter to be Licensed. | 1 George III – Chapter 19 | 1761 | This Act sets penalties for persons found to unlawfully sell liquor in the Province. Monies collected under this Act are to be split between the informer and Treasurer of the Province. This Act is to remain in force for one year. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for altering and amending an Act intitled, An Act for laying a Duty of Excise of Three Pence per Gallon on all Rum, and other Spirituous Liquors distilled within this Province, and for granting a Bounty on the Exportation thereof. | 1 George III – Chapter 18 | 1761 | This Act amends the 1759 Act, "An Act for laying a Duty of Excise of Three Pence per Gallon on all Rum, and other Spirituous Liquors distilled within this Province, and for granting a Bounty on the Exportation thereof," to lay a duty of one shilling per gallon and describes how distillers are to be held to account. This Act is to remain in force until January 1764 and an additional seven years from then. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for altering and amending several Acts of this Province, relating to the Duties on Wines, Beer, Rum, or other distilled Spirituous Liquors, and for granting a Bounty, and allowing a Drawback on the same. | 1 George III – Chapter 17 | 1761 | This Act makes provision for the collection of duties on wine, rum, beer, and other spirituous liquors in the Province and lists penalties for those who evade these duties. The rate of duties are listed. This Act is to remain in force until seven years after January 1764. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Amendment of, Addition to, and for further prolonging an Act, intitled “An Act for granting and establishing an Allowance to the Collector or Collectors of the Impost and Excise Duties.” | 1 George III – Chapter 16 | 1761 | This Act continues the Act, “An Act for granting and establishing an Allowance to the Collector or Collectors of the Impost and Excise Duties,” which is to remain in force for an addition year, makes amendments relating to allowable allowances, and allows for additional collectors to be appointed at harbours or ports. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Addition to, and Amendment of an Act intitled, An Act for preventing Trespasses. | 1 George III – Chapter 15 | 1761 | Under this Act, all goats or swine at large in the streets of Halifax are to be declared forfeited under the terms described and the value of the same is to be used for the poor of the city with less one third the value to be given to the prosecutor. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |