Legislation by Concept: Government Records
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to appropriate a Sum of Money therein-mentioned, to enable the Clerks of the Peace to distribute the printed Copies of the Acts of the Legislature, as by Law provided. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 22 | 1826 | An Act to provide a sum not exceeding seventy-five pounds to Clerks of the Peace, towards distributing Printed Copies of the Laws passed in the last session of the Legislature, as directed. This Act is to remain in force until 1828. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the distribution of a certain number of Copies of the Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the late Province of Quebec, as reprinted pursuant to an Act of the Fifth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, Chapter eight. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 21 | 1826 | An Act to authorise the production of not more than six hundred copies of the Ordinances of the Legislative Council to be distributed to each of the Members of the Legislature, to each of the Judges in this Province, and to each Justice of the Peace being of the Quorum, and to each Clerk of the Peace, to each Rector, Curate, Vicar, Priest or other Minister in each of the Parishes within this Province, and to each Officer of the Militia Staff, and to each Officer commanding a Division or Battalion of Militia in this Province, and to none others, at public expense. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a sum of money therein mentioned for re-printing certain Laws in force in this Province. (22d. March, 1825.) | 5 George IV – Chapter 8 | 1825 | An Act to grant a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds towards reprinting Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the late Province of Quebec. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize an Enumeration and Return of the Population of the Province of Lower-Canada. (22d March, 1825.) | 5 George IV – Chapter 7 | 1825 | An Act outlining the processes by which an enumeration and return of the population of the province is to take place, including how commissioners are to be appointed, their duties, and the questions they are to ask for this purpose. The authority granted to the commissioner, including how many assistants they may hire, is described. Three forms follow at the end of the Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the more certain and expeditious distribution of the Printed Acts of the Legislature of this Province. (22d. March, 1825.) | 5 George IV – Chapter 5 | 1825 | An Act to allow for the early circulation of printed acts in the province. Under this Act, Clerks of the Peace are to distribute Acts to Parsonage Houses in the Country Parishes within their districts as soon as possible after the close of each Session. Churchwarden's are made responsible for making the public aware of these printed acts, as outlined. This Act is to expire in 1828. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for taking an account of the Population of this Province. Passed 11th March, 1824. | 5 George IV Chapter 21 | 1824 | This act allows for county officials to take censuses of their local areas to give the province an accurate assessment of its population. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1824. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1824. |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of money therein-mentioned, for the payment of the printing of certain Acts of the Legislature of this Province. (9th March, 1924.) | 4 George IV Chapter 38 | 1824 | Under this Act, a sum of four hundred and eleven pounds five shillings are to be paid to Peter Edward Desbarats, His Majesty’s Law Printer to pay off a balance owing to him for printing different Acts of the Legislature between the 31 December 1822-14 May 1823. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Alter the Times of holding the Terms of Hilary and Michaelmas. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 20 | 1824 | An act defining when the times of Hilary and Michaelmas will be held. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Repeal an Act passed in the Forty-Fourth Fear of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Promulgate the Provincial Statutes, and also to Repeal so much of an Act passed in the Forty-First Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty as relates to Printing the Journals;” and to provide more adequate Remuneration for Printing Annually the Statutes of this Province. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 14 | 1824 | This act repeals an act passed in 1804 and passes a new clause which stipulates that the printer of the journals of the Legislative Assembly will forward the bill and be reimbursed the costs, rather than being allotted a pre-determined budget. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Repeal part of the Second Clause of an Act passed in the Thirty-Third Year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Provide for the Nomination and Appointment of Parish and Town Officers, within this Province and to make more Effectual Provision for obtaining an Accurate Census of the Population of this Province. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 7 | 1824 | This act specifies how census data is to be collected by assessors appointed by the townships or parishes of the province, and what information they are required to collect. It also specifies the penalties to be enacted upon assessors who neglect to perform their duties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a sum of money therein-mentioned, to indemnify Benjamin Ecuyer, for certain Plans of the City of Quebec by him prepared. (22d. March, 1823.) | 3 George IV Chapter 35 | 1823 | An Act to apply a sum of sixty pounds to indemnify Benjamin Ecuyer, Land surveyor, for his plans of the City of Quebec and estimates of common sewers made and prepared by direction of certain Justices of the Peace for the District of Quebec in 1816. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relating to Marriages, and the issuing of Marriage Licenses. | 59 George III – Chapter 16 | 1819 | This act clarifies marriage law, allowing the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander in Chief to issue marriage licenses to anybody within the province no matter their religious persuasion, rather than requiring them to conform to the book of common prayer. The form of the marriage license is specified within the act, and clarifies that marriages still need to be solemnized by approved clergymen. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering and amending an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the safe custody and registering of all Letters patent, whereby any grant of the waste or other Lands of the Crown, lying within this Province, shall hereafter be made.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 28 | 1817 | An Act to repeal parts of the 1796 Act "An Act for the safe custody and registering of all letters patent, whereby any grant of the waste or other lands of the Crown lying within this Province, shall hereafter be made," and amend how payments shall be received from the grantees of the letters patent. The cost of these letters will depend on the word count of each letter, as outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant a certain sum of money to Joseph Bouchette, Esquire, to assist him in publishing Geographical and Topographical Maps of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 19 | 1815 | An act to provide Joseph Bouchette, Esquire, Surveyor General of the Province of Lower Canada, a sum of five hundred pounds to be aid with him carrying out his mapping project which is deemed to be of great public utility. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act declaratory of the time at which the levying of certain Duties under and by virtue of an Act passed in the present Session of the Provincial Parliament, intituled, “An Act to continue for a limited time, the levying of the Duties imposed by the Provincial Act of the forty fifth year of His Majesty, George the third, chapter thirteenth, and for applying a certain sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned,” shall take place, and for other purposes. (21st, March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 2 | 1811 | An Act to clarify the former “An Act to continue, for a limited time, the levying of the Duties imposed by the Provincial Act of the forty fifth year of His Majesty George the Third, Chapter thirteenth, and for applying a certain sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned,” 1811, in which certain words of the Act being continued were omitted as it was copied. The Act quotes the omitted words as written in the original Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, the levying of the Duties imposed by the Provincial Act of the Forty fifth Year of His Majesty, George the Third, Chapter thirteenth, and for applying, a certain sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned. (12th March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 1 | 1811 | An Act to continue levying duties imposed by "An Act to provide for the erecting of a Common Gaol, in each of the Districts of Quebec and Montreal respectively, and the means for defraying the expences thereof," in 1805 for the purpose of erecting a new building to house the sittings of the Legislature and public offices, as well as their important documents. The rates for duties imposed on teas, liquors, wines, spirits, molasses, and syrups, and directions how goods should be auctioned are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to correct an accidental Error in the Act therein mentioned for the relief of Insane Persons and others. (15th May, 1809.) | 49 George III Chapter 3 | 1809 | An Act to correct an error that effected the date at which the 1808 Act to apply a certain sum for the relief of insane persons and the support of foundlings could take effect. The Act retroactively fulfills the terms of the former, to advance a sum for the support of people of 'deranged Intellect', incapable of earning their subsistence, foundlings, sick and infirm persons, as well as the support of Religious communities that administer relief. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act appropriating a certain sum of Money annually to defray the expences of erecting certain Public Buildings to and for the uses of this Province. Passed 9th March, 1804. | 44 George III – Chapter 9 | 1804 | This Act states that, beginning this year and continuing until construction is complete, his Majesty the King be paid 400 pounds annually from the coffers of the Receiver General of Upper Canada, in order to erect buildings to house government offices and meeting rooms for such bodies as the Legislative Council, the Assembly, the Executive Council, and the Courts of Justice. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1804. York: John Bennet, 1804 |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty a certain sum of Money for the purposes therein mentioned. Passed 9th March, 1804. | 44 George III – Chapter 8 | 1804 | This Act stipulates that his Majesty the King be paid 175 pounds out of the Provincial Treasury in order for the government of Upper Canada to "purchas[e] the Statute Laws of England" and apply them within its own jurisdiction. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1804. York: John Bennet, 1804 |
| An Act to promulgate the Provincial Statutes, and also to repeal so much of an Act passed in the forty-first year of the reign of his present Majesty, as relates to Printing the Journals. Passed 9th March, 1804. | 44 George III – Chapter 5 | 1804 | This Act repeals certain details of an earlier Act regarding funding for the publication of the Journals of the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council, and stipulates that 300 pounds be spent to collate and print all the laws of Upper Canada to date. The Act further stipulates how the various printed copies of the laws are to be distributed, and that 80 pounds be spent in each succeeding year to print the laws passed during that year. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1804. York: John Bennet, 1804 |