Legislation by Source Document: National Archive of the United Kingdom
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act for the Repairing and mending Highways, Roads, Bridges, and Streets, and for appointing Surveyors of Highways, within the several Townships in this Province. | 1 George III – Chapter 14 | 1761 | Under this Act, every person keeping a cart, team, or truck is required to lend the same and an able man to drive it as described to work on the highways, roads, streets, or bridges for four days each year. The processes by which this is to be carried out are described. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for ascertaining the Times and Places for the Holding of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lunenburg, King s County, and Annapolis. | 1 George III – Chapter 13 | 1761 | This Act declares when the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas are to be held in Lunenburg, Horton, and Annapolis annually. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for prohibiting the Exportation of Raw-Hides, Sheep or Calf-Skins, out of this Province, other than for Great-Britain; and to prevent the Cutting, Splitting or Flawing of Hides. | 1 George III – Chapter 12 | 1761 | This Act prohibits raw hides from being loaded on ships in the Province before a bond of one hundred pounds is paid to the proper officer at Halifax. Penalties for those who fail to abide by the terms of this Act are described. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act in Addition to an Act intitled, An Act in Addition to an Act intitled, An Act for preventing Trespasses. | 1 George III – Chapter 10 | 1761 | This Act sets a penalty not exceeding forty pounds for trespasses by horses, swine, sheep, goats and neat cattle as described under the 1759 Act, "An Act in Addition to an Act intitled, An Act for preventing Trespasses." |
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| An Act for the Appointment of Sworn Gaugers, ascertaining their Duty, granting them an Allowance, and establishing their Fees. | 1 George III – Chapter 9 | 1761 | This Act sets the rate of fees gaugers are permitted to demand on goods gauged at the port of Halifax and the allowances they are permitted to take from the fees, not exceeding twenty-five pounds per annum. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act to enable Creditors to receive their just Debts, out of the Effects of their absent or absconding Debtors. | 1 George III – Chapter 8 | 1761 | This Act outlines how creditors can claim debts owing to them from absent persons and provides the processes by which debtors who abscond out of the Province to account if they cannot repay the amount owed. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for the Amendment of an Act intitled, “An Act concerning Marriages and Divorce, and for punishing Incest and Adultery, and declaring Polygamy to be Felony.” | 1 George III – Chapter 7 | 1761 | This Act amends the 1758 Act “An Act concerning Marriages and Divorce, and for punishing Incest and Adultery, and declaring Polygamy to be Felony,” to amend a certain clause found inconsistent with the laws of England. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act to prevent the spreading of contagious Distempers. | 1 George III – Chapter 6 | 1761 | Under this Act, every vessel coming into the port of Halifax with any persons suffering of infectious diseases is required anchor at least two miles below the town and give notice within twenty-four hours of their arrival and from there follow direction both for performing quarantine and removing the sick from the vessel. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for preventing Damages by unseasonable burning, or firing of the Woods. | 1 George III – Chapter 5 | 1761 | This Act provides for the Grant Juries at the next Quarter Sessions to settle regulations relating to the burning of woods and underbrush, and penalties not exceeding five pounds for the same. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |
| An Act for the registring of Marriages, Births and Deaths. | 1 George III – Chapter 4 | 1761 | Under this Act, the proprietors clerks are required to record all marriages, births, and deaths, and are permitted to demand a fee of six pence for each registry entered and one shilling for every certificate of marriage, birth, or death he gives. | National Archive of the United Kingdom |