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Thomas Cutler & Sons
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Thomas Cutler & Son was a shipping and mercantile business founded by Thomas Cutler ca.1790. His son Robert became a partner in the business and continued it following his father's death in 1837. They also engaged in shipbuilding and ship owning.

Person · 1790-

Thomas Cutler & Son was a shipping and mercantile business founded by Thomas Cutler ca.1790. His son Robert became a partner in the business and continued it following his father's death in 1837. They also engaged in shipbuilding and ship owning.

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In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Supreme court circuit sittings were established at Guysborough in 1834, in what was the lower district of Sydney County until Guysborough became a separate county in 1836. As the sessions had earlier been split between Guysborough and Antigonish, a court house was already available. When Guysborough County was divided into the Guysborough and St. Mary's districts in 1840, another sitting location was added at Sherbrooke, but no separate records were generated by those sittings.

Corporate body · 1834-

In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. Supreme court circuit sittings were established at Guysborough in 1834, in what was the lower district of Sydney County until Guysborough became a separate county in 1836. As the sessions had earlier been split between Guysborough and Antigonish, a court house was already available. When Guysborough County was divided into the Guysborough and St. Mary's districts in 1840, another sitting location was added at Sherbrooke, but no separate records were generated by those sittings.

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The Stipendiary Magistrates' Court for Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, was held in the Guysborough Court House, to hear minor civil and criminal cases. Magistrates' Courts were established throughout Nova Scotia as a succession to the Court of General Sessions. Court operations were decentralized, in that they did not report to a higher body. Prior to 1938, magistrates were not required to be lawyers. In 1938, a provincial act was passed which required all magistrates to be lawyers, but during their term as a magistrate, could not practice law. As of 1938, all magistrates were permitted to complete their term, and then the act was enforced. Many lawyers were dissatisfied with this system, as it would force them to abandon their practices. These courts quickly faded out within the province.

Port of Guysborough
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During the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, the Port of Guysborough was a busy shipping center and was established sometime in the early to mid nineteenth century as a port of registry and customs collection. After Confederation in 1867, the new federal government assumed control over customs and navigation and shipping. The new Department of Marine and Fisheries assumed responsibility for the administration of legislation relating to shipping and seamen, including the registration of vessels, which the federal Customs and Excise department began to administer the collection of taxes and duties. Most ports in the county were designated as "public ports", which meant that responsibility for the management of their port facilities, pilotage and harbour navigation aids also passed to the Department of Marine and Fisheries.

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During the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, the Port of Guysborough was a busy shipping center and was established sometime in the early to mid nineteenth century as a port of registry and customs collection. After Confederation in 1867, the new federal government assumed control over customs and navigation and shipping. The new Department of Marine and Fisheries assumed responsibility for the administration of legislation relating to shipping and seamen, including the registration of vessels, which the federal Customs and Excise department began to administer the collection of taxes and duties. Most ports in the county were designated as "public ports", which meant that responsibility for the management of their port facilities, pilotage and harbour navigation aids also passed to the Department of Marine and Fisheries.

Corporate body · 1908-

Systematic registration of births, marriages and deaths did not start until 1 August 1864 when theRegistration Act added registration to the duties of the Board of Statistics. While registration of births and deaths, prior to 1864, was undertaken on a more informal basis, the legislature had regulated marriage from the first session in 1758 and provided marriage licences to those not choosing to give notice of their marriage through the reading of banns. Legislation passed in 1761 and 1782 had required township clerks to keep registers of all births, marriages and deaths within their jurisdiction, but the forms and procedures to be used in collecting this information were not specified, and no centralized agency to collect and present the province's vital statistics was established until 1864. In that year, the Registration Act provided for the commission of deputy registrars and issuers of marriage licenses. They were required to register all births, marriages and deaths within their jurisdiction and to present regular statistical returns to the secretary of the Board of Statistics, who was to use this information to compile a provincial register of vital statistics. This provincial initiative was short-lived, however, since the federal Department of Agriculture and Statistics assumed responsibility for the compilation of information on births, marriages, and deaths after Confederation in 1867. Although federal government withdrew from vital statistics collecting in Nova Scotia on 1 July 1877, the province continued the registration of marriages, maintaining the position of marriage license clerk within the provincial secretary's department. In October 1908, the provincial government resumed the registration of births and deaths when it enacted the Registration of Births and Deaths Act (the title of which was changed to the Vital Statistics Act in 1919). The act created the position of Deputy Registrar-General and divided the province into registration districts, each of which was assigned a district registrar. The provincial secretary was designated the Registrar-General for the province, but the act assigned all functional responsibility for the registration of the province's births, marriages and deaths to the Deputy Registrar-General. The Registrar-General's duties were confined to the "general supervision" of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act and the presentation of the Deputy Registrar-General's annual report on the province's vital statistics to the Governor in Council. In 1926, the Provincial Health Officer was made the Deputy Registrar-General. When the Nova Scotia Department of Public Health was revived and reorganized in 1931, the new Deputy Minister of Public Health also became the Deputy Registrar-General, while the new Minister of Public Health was designated Registrar-General.