An Act to continue, for a limited time, and amend an Act passed in the forty-third year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for the better regulation of the Militia of this Province and to repeal certain Acts or Ordinances therein mentioned.” (19th May, 1812.)

  • Province
    Lower Canada (1792-1841)
  • Chapter
    52 George III Chapter 1 (S1)
  • Year
    1812
  • Concepts
    Defence
    Public Order
  • Jurisdictional Relevance
    Provincial/Provinciale
  • Number of Articles
    21
  • Description
    An act to continue and amend a former act originally passed in 1803. The original act declares that all men between the ages of eighteen and sixty are to be militia men, bound to serve in their division's militia. This act amends the maximum age from sixty to fifty. The act also outlines who is to be excepted from this law, how order is to be maintained, and how these men are to be enrolled and trained. The act is to expire in 1814 or at the end of the war, should one be declared.
  • Source
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