Legislation by Concept: Government Revenue, War of 1812
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to authorise the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Person administering the Government of this Province, to borrow a sum of money upon the securities therein mentioned, to be applied in discharging the arrearages due to Militia Pensioners. Passed 14th April, 1821. | 2 George IV – Chapter 5 | 1821 | This Act authorizes the government of Upper Canada to borrow up to 25,000 pounds to pay overdue military pensions. It delineates the terms of the loan(s) and their respective repayment(s). | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act passed in the fifty-fifth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the fifty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled ‘An Act to provide for the maintenance of persons disabled, and the widows and children of such persons as may be killed in his Majesty’s Service,” and also an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act to repeal part of and to alter and amend the Laws now in force for granting Pensions to persons disabled in the Service, and the widows and children of persons who may have been killed in the Service, and to extend the provisions of the same” and an Act passed in the fifty-seventh year of His late Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act to repeal part of and amend an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled ‘An Act to repeal part of and to alter and amend the Laws now in force for granting Pensions to persons disabled in the Service, and the widows and children of persons who may have been killed in the Service, and to extend the provisions of the same’ and to make provision for granting Pensions to persons disabled in the Service, and to the widows and children of persons who may have been killed in the Service, or who may have died while in captivity with the enemy, during the late War with the United States of America.” Passed 14th April, 1821. | 2 George IV – Chapter 4 | 1821 | This Act repeals several previous Acts relating to military pensions, and specifies the means by which one may now qualify for such a pension. The Act is meant to apply for four years plus the time until the conclusion of the next legislative term, and was born of the need to reduce the amount of government money being spent on military pensions. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain Sum of Money to provide for the expense of laying out Lands for Reduced Officers and Men of the Embodied Militia, and others, who served during the late War. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 23 | 1819 | An act to provide a sum not exceeding three thousand pounds to be appropriated and paid by a warrant or warrants for the purpose of carrying into effect instructions to grant portions of the Crown's waste lands to Offices and men of the Embodied Militia and discharged troops who served in the late War. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An act for vesting in commissioners the estates of certain traitors, and also the estates of persons declared aliens, by an act passed in the fifty-fourth year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An act to declare certain persons therein described aliens, and to vest their estates in his Majesty, and for applying the proceeds thereof towards compensating the losses which his Majesty’s subjects have sustained in consequence of the late war, and for ascertaining and satisfying the lawful debts and claims thereupon.” (Passed November 27, 1818.) | 58 George III – Chapter 12 (Session 3) | 1818 | This act invests property seized by those who have been deemed traitors to the crown due to their actions in the war of 1812 into the care of commissioners, and clarifies how these various properties are to be managed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of the Students in Law, for the profession of Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor and Counsel, who served during the late War with the United States of America. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 27 | 1817 | An Act to provide for students of law who should have continued their clerkship following the end of the war or whose clerkship expired during the war. After a term of five years, these men are to be commissioned as a Barrister, Advocate, Solicitor, Attorney or Proctor at Law, upon undergoing an examination and obtaining a certificate of fit capacity and character. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty a sum of Money towards defraying the Expenses of the Civil Administration of the Government of this Province. Passed 1st of April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 27 | 1816 | This act authorises a payment of 2,500 pounds collected from the various taxes and fees collected by the provincial legislative assembly towards the Crown's Receiver General, in payment for funds advanced for government expenses, but especially in repayment for contributions made during the War of 1812. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise and provide for the building a Gaol and Court-House in the Town of York, in the Home District, within this Province. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 19 | 1816 | This act authorises the rebuilding of the jail and courthouse in the town of York, as they were destroyed during the recent war with the United States. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal part of, and to alter and amend the Laws now in force for granting Pensions to Persons disabled in the Service and the Widows and Children of Persons who may have been killed in the Service, and to extend the Provision of the same. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 18 | 1816 | This act repeals an act first passed in 1813 which was intended to provide for militia men who were wounded in service, as well as their widows and children, but which has been found insufficient. It contains clauses which are meant to replace the prior act, widening the definition of who is eligible, and the definition of being wounded during service. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to afford Relief to Persons holding or possessing Lands, Tenements of Hereditaments in the District of Niagara. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 16 | 1816 | In order to rectify the potential problems set into motion when town records recording land deeds and ownership were burnt during the War of 1812, this act allows for the appointment of five commissioners who will be in charge of re-defining deeds, wills, mortgages, leases, and all other legal documents lost or destroyed during the war. The act specifies the authority of these commissioners, how the replacement legal documents will be recorded, and how current land owners can register their properties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act Granting Relief to Charlotte Overholt. Passed 22d March, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 13 | 1816 | This act provides a pension for Charlotte Overholt, the widow of Abraham Overholt, a soldier killed during the war of 1812. The preamble of the act specifies that he was not killed in action but rather "died under peculiar circumstances" and therefore Mrs. Overhold does not fall under the 1813 act allowing for widows of soldiers to be granted an annuity; this act makes an exception within the law to provide for her. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the erection of a Monument to the Memory of the late President Major General Sir Isaac Brock. Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 15 | 1815 | This Act provides funds and management for the erection of a monument in memory of Isaac Brock. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |
| An Act for the relief of such Students in Law preparing themselves for the professions of Advocates and Attornies, or Notaries as Have served in the Embodied Militia, during the late War with the United States of America. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 13 | 1815 | An Act to excuse Students in Law who served for the defence of the province during the War of 1812 after having commenced their clerkship under the terms outlined in "An Ordinance concerning Advocates, Anomies, Solicitors and Notaries, and for the more easy collection of His Majesty's Revenues," passed in 1785, from repeating their entire five-year clerkship, rather, allowing them to complete the remainder of their respective terms. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant an annuity to such Militia-men as were wounded during the late war with the United States of America, and to apply a sum of money therein mentioned, to aid and assist His Majesty in defraying the expenses of the Militia incurred during the said War, and also to indemnify certain Officers of Militia and the Families of such Militiamen as were killed in the said war. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 10 | 1815 | An Act to grant six pound annuity to any non-commissioned Officer, Militiaman, or Canadian Voltigeur rendered incapable of earning a livelihood by injuries obtained during the War of 1812, over and above the annuity of nine pounds allowed by an Act passed in 1803, “An Act for the better regulation of the Militia of this Province and for repealing certain Acts or Ordinances therein mentioned.” Officers of the Embodied Militia and of the Corps of Canadian Voltigeurs, not being officers in His Majesty’s Regular Forces who served at the date peace agreements were ratified are to receive eighty days' pay under this Act, to make up for the losses sustained through the sudden disbanding of those Corps. Widows of militiamen killed in the war or their children or parents if they have no widow, are to receive a sum not less than twenty-five pounds or exceeding one hundred pounds. The source of these funds and the manner in which they are to be distributed are detailed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to declare certain persona therein described Aliens, and to vest their Estates in His Majesty. (Passed March 14th, 1814.) | 54 George III – Chapter 9 | 1814 | This act removes land title from individuals who hold American citizenship, and have returned to the United States since the declaration of war between the United States and Great Britain in 1812. The properties which were once owned by the said Americans are turned over to the crown. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, intituled “An Act to provide for the accommodation and billeting of His Majesty’s Troops and the Militia when on their march.” Passed the 7th of March, 1814. | 54 George III Chapter 4 | 1814 | This act continues an 1813 act allowing for the billeting of British troops until 1815. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| An Act in addition to an Act, passed in the fifty-second year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional Revenue to defray the expense of the War, and to appoint Commissioners to borrow Money for the Use of the Province.” | 53 George III – Chapter 19 | 1813 | An amendment to a 1812 act which places an additional duty on wine, rum, and other liquors in order to cover the expense of defending the province during wartime. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the accommodation and billeting of His Majesty’s Troops and the Militia when on their march. Passed the 3rd of March, 1813. | 53 George III Chapter 6 | 1813 | This act gives local officials the power to billet transient troops in certain buildings and furnish them with provisions | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1813. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1813. |
| An Act to alter and extend the provisions of an Act, intituled “An Act to encourage the erection of a Passage Boat to be worked by Steam, for facilitating the communication between the City of Saint John and Fredericton,” and to relieve the persons named in the same Act from the penalty of a bond given by them to His Majesty in pursuance of the provisions of the same Act. Passed the 3rd of March, 1813. | 53 George III Chapter 4 | 1813 | This act grants the men awarded a grant to start a steamship line between Fredericton and Saint John a reprieve on begining construction due to the outbreak of the War of 1812. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1813. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1813. |
| An Act to alter, amend and continue, the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, now in force, relating to a Militia. | 53 George III – Chapter 2 | 1813 | A continuation and amendment of past acts regulating the militia of the province. The amended acts regard mostly absenteeism of militia members and penalties for both individual militia men and militia officers, and changes to militia regulations during times of war. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying two several sums of money for the purposes therein mentioned and for altering the appropriations made by an Act of the fifty first year of His Majesty, chapter first, and extending the duration thereof. (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 21 (S1) | 1812 | An act to devote a sum not exceeding twenty thousand pounds currency to improve the defense of the province if the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the government deems it necessary, and a further thirty thousand pounds to be employed in case of war with the United States or an invasion of the province. The Receiver General is not limited to these allowances should further sums become required. The act also continues a former act "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" passed in 1811. | Early Canadiana Online |