This act makes it lawful for criminal offenders to be sentenced to hard labour and outlines certain restrictions on the types and duration of labour assigned.
This act allows residents of the province to claim debts smaller than five pounds through the Court of Requests, so long as those debts were not incurred at a venue which sells spirits or through gambling.
This Act sets out the times that the Supreme Court will sit in the province’s districts and counties as well as some regulations relating to proceedings held therein and the role of assistant or associate justices.
This act creates a new district, the district of Ottawa, to be created out of two priorly existing districts, Prescott and Russell. It allows for the appointing of Justices of the Peace, the building of a court house and jail, defines when the court of the Quarter Sessions will be held, and states provisions for the appointment of a district sheriff, who will be subordinate to the sheriff of the Eastern District.
This act repeals and replaces an act from 1801, and states when the courts of the Quarter Sessions can be held in the districts of London and Johnstown.
Under this Act, the Provincial Court of Appeals will be holden and kept where the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government shall appoint within the City of Quebec. The Act stipulates that the Clerk of the Provincial Court of Appeals is responsible for notifying the public where it will be holden. This Act is to expire in 1816.
An act to apply a sum not exceeding two thousand six hundred pounds towards repairing the Court House in the City of Quebec,a sum not exceed two thousand six hundred pounds towards adding a third storey to the structure, and a sum of one thousand five hundred pounds to enclose the premises. The processes by which Commissioners, a Treasurer, and Clerk are to be appointed for these purposes and their duties are outlined.
This act establishes a bridewell in Halifax, a type of jail for offenders who commit petty crimes. The act specifies the regulations to be followed by justices who would commit offenders to the said bridewell, the type of offenders to be sent there, the sums of money to be appropriated for its construction and maintenance, and various other matters relating to the running of such an institution.
An act to extend “An Act to empower the Justices of the peace to make for a limited time Rules and Regulations for the Government of Apprentices and others,” originally passed in 1802 and extended in 1811. The original act granted Justices of the Peace the authority to regulate apprentices, domestics, hired servants, journeymen, and their masters and mistresses. It outlined the permissible punishments for apprentices, domestics, hired servants, or journeymen who break the rules and regulations. This act is continued until 1817.
This Act repeals parts of an act concerned with the establishments of county courts, including new forms for the handling of criminal justice by counties.