Legislation by Concept: Financial Regulation, Government Revenue
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for the better examining and auditing the Public Accounts of this Province. Passed 17th March, 1825. | 6 George IV Chapter 9 | 1825 | This act creates a new system for examining provincial funds to ensure better and more accountable book keeping and for the appointment of an auditor to do so. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1825. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1825. |
| An Act to encourage the establishment of Banks for Savings in this Province. Passed 17th March, 1825. | 6 George IV Chapter 4 | 1825 | This act creates legal protections for smaller banks and rules for them to abide by to recieve such protections. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1825. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1825. |
| An Act to increase the Capital the Stock of the Bank of New-Brunswick. Passed 17th March, 1825. | 6 George IV Chapter 3 | 1825 | This act adds 20,000 pounds in stock to the Bank of New Brunswick to help promote trade. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1825. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1825. |
| An Act to alter and amend certain parts of an Ordinance made and passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, “An Ordinance to regulate the proceedings of the Courts of Civil Judicature, and to establish Trials by Juries, in actions of a Commercial nature, and personal wrongs, to be compensated in damages, in what relates to the issuing of Writs of Capias ad respondendum and to Special Bail.” (23d March, 1825.) | 5 George IV – Chapter 2 | 1825 | An Act to alter and amend an Ordinance from 1785 concerning the condition of bails to be given by any Defendant arrested under the terms of Capias ad respondendum, making it so that Cognizers shall not become liable for the bail unless the Defendant leaves the Province without having paid their debt, interest and costs. Additionally, under this Act, no writ of Capias ad respondendum can be issued by the suit of someone residing in Upper Canada against someone living in Lower Canada, except as specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Repeal part of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, entituled, “An Act vesting in the hands of certain Commissioners therein named, all the Stock, Debts, Bonds, and Property of the Pretended Bank of Upper-Canada, lately established at Kingston, for the benefit of the Creditors of that Institution, and to make further Provision for the Settling the Affairs of the said Pretended Bank. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 21 | 1824 | This act sets out the terms by which the Bank of Upper Canada, recently established in Kingston, is to regulate its business with the public. It specifies how often the board should meet, what information should be communicated by the board, how many members the board should consist of, and assures the security of any notes issues by the bank. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the Government of the Province, to restore Goods and Vessels seized to the Proprietor or Proprietors, on the terms and conditions therein-mentioned. (9th March, 1824.) | 4 George IV Chapter 14 | 1824 | This Act clarifies the terms by which Goods seized under circumstances wherein it would be just and reasonable that relief should be afforded should be returned to the proprietor or proprietors from who they were seized. The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the Government are authorized to order any Goods or Commodities whatever, or any Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horses, Cattle or Carriages, which shall have been seized by Customs Officers or other individuals allowed to do so under other Acts or Ordinances to be restored to the proprietor or proprietors. The Act specifies that is the proprietor or proprietors accept the terms and conditions prescribed by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the Government that they shall not have, or be entitled to any recompence or damage on account of the seizure or detention of such Goods or Commodities, Ships, Vessels, Boats, Horses, Cattle or Carriages. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Prohibit Banks from Carrying on Business in this Province, that do not return their Notes in Specie within the same. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 13 | 1824 | This act prohibits banks or anybody acting on behalf of banks who do not use the provincial currency from operating within the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act vesting in the hands of certain Commissioners therein named, all the Stock, Debts, Bonds, and Property of the pretended Bank of Upper-Canada, lately established at Kingston, for the benefit of the Creditors of that Institution. Passed 19th March, 1823. | 4 George IV – Chapter 22 | 1823 | This Act names commissioners to hold the stock and debt of the false bank of Upper Canada. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1823. York: Charles Fothergill, 1823. |
| An Act to amend an Act, intituled “An Act subjecting real estates in the Province of New-Brunswick, to the payment of Debts, and directing the Sheriff in his proceedings thereon.” Passed the 27th March, 1823. | 4 George IV Chapter 19 | 1823 | This act amends a 1786 act on debt collection, stipulating that sheriffs will have to advertise the sale of confiscated goods and property six months in advance. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1823. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1823. |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, for relief against absconding Debtors. Passed the 27th March, 1823. | 4 George IV Chapter 14 | 1823 | This act amends an 1786 act concerning debtors, allowing for inferior judges to administer oaths on the trustees of such persons. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1823. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1823. |
| An Act in addition to an Act, passed in the fifty-eighth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to empower the Lieutenant-Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being, to issue Treasury Notes.” | 4 George IV – Chapter 12 | 1823 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1818, which makes provision for commissioner to issue five pound notes, two pound notes, and one pound notes, and outlines penalties for those found to counterfeit treasury notes. The current increases the amount which can be issued to five pound notes. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Amend and Repeal part of an Act, entituled “An Act to Incorporate Sundry Persons under the style and title of The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of Upper Canada. Passed 19th March, 1823. | 4 George IV – Chapter 11 | 1823 | This Act redistributes shares of the Bank of Upper Canada, repealing previous acts inconsistent with this. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1823. York: Charles Fothergill, 1823. |
| An Act for the relief of David Williams, an Insolvent Debtor. | 3 George IV – Chapter 28 | 1822 | This act discharges David Williams, a debtor held in prison by his creditors, under certain conditions specified by the act. | LLMC Digital Law Library |
| An Act to remunerate the Commissioners appointed to treat on behalf of this Province with the Commissioners of Lower Canada on the subject of our Commercial relations with that Province. Passed 17th January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 27 | 1822 | This Act allows for the payment of 100 pounds each to the three Commissioners who negotiated with their counterparts from Lower Canada on certain questions of duties and trade. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of John Crysler, Esquire. Passed 17th January 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 23 | 1822 | This Act stipulates that John Crysler, Esquire, the Collector of Customs in Cornwall, be paid the percentage due him on the duties he collected in his position at the "Port of Cornwall." Crysler's percentage would have been paid him sooner had the Deputy Collector not been negligent in reporting the duties in a timely manner. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act requiring the publication of the expenditure of monies raised under any Law, establishing a Police in any Town or Towns in this Province. Passed 17 January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 13 | 1822 | This Act stipulates that annual accounts of monies raised and spent to establish police forces in Upper Canada be made public, and that the annual accounts of existing police forces also be kept and made public. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable persons who have preferred claims to or out of certain Forfeited Estates in this Province to withdraw the same. Passed 17th January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 12 | 1822 | This Act allows people who have made, or may in future make, claims regarding any of the "traitors'" or "aliens'" estates vested in the government, to change their minds and withdraw their claims, at which time the estate(s) in question would return to the Commissioner(s) of the government. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act passed in the fifty sixth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act for granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money and to provide for the appointment of a Provincial Agent for this Province. Passed 17th January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 10 | 1822 | This Act repeals an earlier law calling for "the appointment of a Provincial Agent for" Upper Canada; the previous Provincial Agent had passed away, and it was deemed that the office was no longer necessary as it had not functioned as desired. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further regulations respecting the Weekly maintenance of Insolvent Debtors. Passed 17th January 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 8 | 1822 | This Act describes the procedure by which an incarcerated debtor can apply for a release from prison or a weekly allowance. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, and promulgated by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-first day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-One, entitled “An Act to incorporate sundry persons under the Style and Title of The President Directors and Companyof the Bankof Upper Canada.” Passed 17th January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 7 | 1822 | This Act allows for changes to the process of electing the current Directors of the Company of the Bank of Upper Canada, due to extenuating circumstances; and reduces the amount of capital the Directors need to begin the Bank's operation. | Early Canadiana Online |