Legislation by Concept: Infrastructure, Waterways
Displaying 1721 - 1740 of 2243 entries
| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for erecting and maintaining a Light-House upon one of the Islands or Rocks near the South-East Coast of the Island of Grand Manan. Passed 11th March, 1824. | 5 George IV Chapter 3 | 1824 | This act provides a legislative framework and funding scheme to build a lighthouse off Grand Manan. | 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 authorize Jean Baptiste Denonville, to build a Toll-Bridge over the Southern Branch of the River Yamaska, at the place commonly called, the Rapid Beauregard. (9th March, 1824.) | 4 George IV Chapter 39 | 1824 | An act authorising Jean Baptiste Denonville to build and collect a toll on a bridge crossing the Southern Branch of the River Yamaska at the Rapid Beauregard. Denonville is granted the authority to take and use of the land required to build the bridge. Standards and stipulations for the bridge's construction and maintenance are outlined. The allowable tolls that can be charged are described, as well as those to be excepted from tolls. Additionally, after a period of fifty years, it is made lawful for the Crown to assume possession of the bridge. Time restraints allowed for the construction and repairs are outlined, as well as penalties for those who neglect the tenets of the bill. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the provisions of an Act therein-mentioned, passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Chapter twenty-second, in favor of the Proprietors of the Montreal Library. (9th March, 1824.) | 4 George IV Chapter 36 | 1824 | An Act to add an additional five years to the period allowed for the construction of a public library in Montreal as described in the 1819 "Act An Act to appropriate a certain Lot of Ground in the City of Montreal for the site of a Public Library, and to incorporate certain persons therein-mentioned." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace of the District of Johnstown to Erect a New Gaol and Courthouse, or Repair the Old One, and to Erect New Bridges over Yonge and Irish Creeks. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 35 | 1824 | This act makes provisions and appropriates funds for the building of a jail in Johnstown, or the repairing of the old jail. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, entitled, “An Act in addition to and amendment of an Act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, ‘An Act for repairing, cleansing and paving, the Streets in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax, and for removing obstructions therein;’” and also the Act, in amendment thereof, passed in the forty-second year of His present Majesty’s Reign. | 4 George IV – Chapter 35 | 1824 | A continuation of an amendment to an act first passed in 1801, which divided the town of Halifax into wards for the purposes of repairing and maintaining roads. The amendment requires residents to keep the streets and gutters in front of their houses clean of any sort of filth or nuisance. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly for raising a Revenue to repair the Roads throughout the Province, by laying a Duty on Persons hereafter to be Licensed to keep Public Houses and Shops for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. | 4 George IV – Chapter 33 | 1824 | A continuation of several past acts which impose taxes on public houses in order to pay for road repair across the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money for the purposes therein mentioned. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 29 | 1824 | This act grants money to several districts who are in dire need of new roads and road repair. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act, passed in the fortieth year of His late Majesty, to amend an Act, passed in the first year of His said late Majesty’s reign, for the repairing and mending Highways, Roads, Bridges and Streets, and for appointing Surveyors of Highways within the several Townships of this Province. | 4 George IV – Chapter 21 | 1824 | This act amends past acts concerning the mandatory labour required of residents to maintain roads, highways and bridges. The amendment concerns the method to follow in order to clarify title to lands which commissioners overseeing highway projects have identified for new road construction in cases where the owner of these lands are unclear or disputed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts respecting the Liverpool Light-House. | 4 George IV – Chapter 20 | 1824 | A continuation and amendment of an act first passed in 1812 which imposes a duty on ships entering Liverpool Harbour in order to support a lighthouse on Coffin's Island. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, entitled, “An Act in addition to, and in amendment of, the several Acts, now in force, for repairing and mending Highways, Roads, Bridges and Streets, and for appointing Surveyors of Highways within the several Townships in this Province.” | 4 George IV – Chapter 19 | 1824 | A continuation of an act passed in 1822, which amends past acts concerning the mandatory labour required of residents to maintain roads, highways and bridges. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Commissioners appointed for the completion of the Canal between Lachine and Montreal, to effect a Loan for that purpose, and to establish rates of Tolls to pass thereon. (9th March, 1824.) | 4 George IV Chapter 16 | 1824 | An Act to apply a sum not exceeding twenty thousand pounds towards the completion of the Lachine canal, as outlined in an Act passed in 1821, "An Act for making a Navigable Canal, from the neighbourhood of Montreal to the Parish of Lachine, and to appropriate a certain sum of money for that purpose, and to repeal a certain Act therein-mentioned," which project was continued by the 1823 Act "An Act to appropriate a certain sum of money therein-mentioned, towards continuing and completing the Lachine Canal." The tolls and duties to be collected to repay these funds and the rates of interest to be applied to the loan are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Expenditure of Monies hereafter to be appropriated for the Service of Roads and Bridges. | 4 George IV – Chapter 14 | 1824 | This act regulates the appointment of local commissioners to supervise the construction and the expenditure of money granted to improve and construct roads. The responsibilities of the commissioners, as well as the criteria which need to be met by anyone who would be appointed a commissioner, are specified by the act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts relating to the Light-House erected on Cranberry Island, near the entrance of the Gut of Canso. | 4 George IV – Chapter 13 | 1824 | A continuation of an act first passed in 1822 which establishes a duty to be collected at all harbours adjacent to the gut of Canso to support the Cranberry Island lighthouse. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Repeal part of and Amend an Act passed in the fiftieth year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entituled, “An Act to Provide for the Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair, the Public Highways and Roads in this Province, and to Repeal the Laws now in force for that purpose;” and also to Repeal part of and Amend the Provisions of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Repeal part of, and Amend the Laws now in force for Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair the Public Highways and Roads, in this Province.” Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 10 | 1824 | An amendment to an act passed in 1810 regarding rules and regulations concerning the laying out and maintenance of public roads. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Amend, and make perpetual an Act passed in the fifty ninth year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Repeal part of, and Amend the Laws now in force for Laying Out Amending, and Keeping in Repair the Public Highways and Roads in this Province;” and also to Amend an Act passed in the fiftieth year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Provide for the Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair, the Public Highways and Roads in this Province and to Repeal the Laws now in force for that purpose. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 9 | 1824 | This act makes perpetual an act passed in 1819 regarding the repair and maintenance of public roads in the province, with the addendum of several clauses. The fee required to be paid by those who wish to pay a fine rather than work the required statute labour is specified, as well as the penalties for failure to pay these duties, and the duties of the Surveyor of Streets is detailled as well as their appointment. | Early Canadiana Online |
| Act to Divide the County of Carleton, in the Bathurst District. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 5 | 1824 | This act divides the county of Carleton into two separate counties - Carleton county and Lanark County - due to increased population. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the Incorporation of a Company for making a Canal by the River and Lakes of the Shubenaccadie. | 4 George IV – Chapter 3 | 1824 | This act allows for the incorporation of a company which will have as its goal the construction of a canal on the Shubenacadie River to allow for easier navigation to and from Halifax Harbour and Minas Basin. The members of the corporation are not herein named or specified, rather the act sets out how the corporation is to be regulated and established, and makes provisions for its establishment once a sufficient number of potential members have been found. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned, for the service of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Four; and for appropriating such part of the Supplies, granted in this Session of the General Assembly, as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province. | 4 George IV – Chapter 2 | 1824 | This act allots various parcels of money for a number of purposes and to various individuals throughout the province, for infrastructure projects and in reimbursement for services rendered to the government. | Early Canadiana Online |
| As Act for the Division of the Township of Ameliasburgh in the County of Prince Edwand. Passed 19th March, 1823. | 4 George IV – Chapter 38 | 1823 | This Act details the new division of Ameliasburgh into Hillier. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1823. York: Charles Fothergill, 1823. |
| An Act to continue an Act, entitled, “An Act in addition to and amendment of an Act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, ‘An Act for repairing, cleansing and paving, the Streets, in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax, and for removing Obstructions therein;’” and also the act in amendment thereof, passed in the forty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign. | 4 George IV – Chapter 37 | 1823 | A continuation of an amendment to an act first passed in 1801, which divided the town of Halifax into wards for the purposes of repairing and maintaining roads. The amendment requires residents to keep the streets and gutters in front of their houses clean of any sort of filth or nuisance. | Early Canadiana Online |