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    • Author/Creator:Nova Scotia. House of Assembly
    • Uniform Title:[Laws, etc. 1758-1766]
    • Title:The perpetual acts of the general assemblies of His Majesty's province of Nova Scotia [electronic resource].
    • Published/Created:Halifax, in Nova Scotia : printed by Robert Fletcher, 1767.
    • Physical Description:[26], 206, [2]p.; 2⁰.
    • Links:Full text online
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:This was the first revised edition of Nova Scotia statutes. It contains session by session, 1758-Oct. 1766, the text of acts passed and still in force, with titles of acts passed by no longer in force. Laws of a temporary character ... were excluded from this work and published in a separate revised edition ... --Tremaine.
      Revised by John Duport and Jonathan Belcher.
      "This work was sold by Fletcher for several years with supplemental sessions laws to date ... though after Fletcher relinquished the printing business (1770) these sessional supplements were actually printed by Anthony Henry". (Tremaine)
      The final leaf (2F2) contains errata.
      Signatures: [pi]² [A]² B² C¹ D-F² ²A-F² G-3F².
      In this edition, the imprint has "printed by Robert Fletcher". In another edition, the imprint has "printed and sold by Robert Fletcher".
      Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.
      Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Tremaine, M. Bibliography of Canadian imprints, 1751-1800, 111
      Fleming & Alston. Early Canadian Printing, 111
      English short title catalogue, W41648.
    • Subjects:Nova Scotia. House of Assembly--Early works to 1800.
    • Also listed under:Canada--Nova Scotia--Halifax.