Legislation by Concept: Welfare
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act granting One Hundred Pounds in aid of the Funds of the Female Benevolent Society of Kingston. Passed 6th March, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 32 | 1830 | This Act provides for 100 pounds of provincial government money in support of the Female Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Destitute Sick in Kingston. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Authorize the Receiver General of this Province to raise by Debenture, on the Credit of certain duties therein mentioned, a Sum of Money for the Relief of the Sufferers during the late War with the United States. Passed 6th March, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 22 | 1830 | This Act grants the Receiver General the power to borrow the 57,412 pounds, ten shillings authorized for compensation of those residents of the province sustaining losses during the War of 1812, and outlines the terms of the potential loan(s) and its or their repayment. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of the Sufferers who sustained Loss during the late War with the United States of America. Passed 6th March, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 21 | 1830 | This Act provides for 57,412 pounds, ten shillings out of duties on salt and whiskey to be made available towards the compensation of those residents of the province sustaining losses during the War of 1812. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Quarter Sessions of the Home District to provide for the Relief of Insane Destitute Persons in that District. Passed 6th March, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 20 | 1830 | This Act authorizes the Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the Home District to request the District Treasurer to release funds for the support of those insane inhabitants of the District who have insufficient means of supporting themselves. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Pension Charlotte Pomeroy, Widow of the late Timothy Conklin Pomeroy. Passed 6th March, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 18 | 1830 | This Act provides for an annual pension of twenty pounds for Charlotte Pomeroy, whose husband was killed in the course of duty as a law enforcement officer. Mrs. Pomeroy is to qualify for the pension until her youngest child turns sixteen. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Direct the Appropriation of Fines in certain cases. Passed 30th January, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 1 | 1830 | This Act stipulates that henceforward, fines collected for criminal offences and intended to support poor citizens of Upper Canada are to be paid to the District Treasurer where the conviction occurred. Further, the funds collected in such manner are to be used for the benefit of that particular District, just as taxes would be. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to incorporate certain Persons under the name of the Quebec Friendly Society. (26th March, 1830.) | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 49 | 1830 | An Act to permit several individuals to form the "Quebec Friendly Society" to collect voluntary contributions from its members for their mutual relief and maintenance in sickness, old age and infirmity. A committee composed of society members is to form to establish the rules, orders, and regulations according to the terms of this Act. The Act gives further directions for the society should function. This Act is to remain in force until 1851. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make Further provision for the relief of the Indigent Sick, and for the support of Foundlings and others. (26th March, 1830.) | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 35 | 1830 | An Act to provide several sums of money to hospitals and charitable organizations in 1830, including the Religious Ladies of the General Hospital near Quebec, the General Hospital near Quebec, Religious Ladies of the General Hospital at Montreal, the Religious Ladies of the Hotel Dieu at Montreal, the Corporation of the General Hospital at Montreal, and several sums to support Indigent Sick and Infirm Persons and Foundlings in the Districts of Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. The commissioners responsible for disbursing these funds are made to report on how they have been distributed before the three Branches of the Legislature at the next session. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the establishment of a Temporary Fever Hospital for the reception of persons infected with Contagious Diseases. (26th March, 1830.) | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 18 | 1830 | This Act provides for the establishment of a temporary Fever Hospital outside the City of Quebec from “paupers” and people arriving on ships infected with typhus fever, yellow fever, scarlet fever, plague, small pox or measles. Provisions needed to supply the hospital and funds granted to hire a house to be used are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to appropriate a certain sum of Money towards erecting Light Houses on the Shores of the River Saint Lawrence and for other purposes therein mentioned.” (26th March, 1830.) | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 13 | 1830 | This Act amends the 1829 Act “An Act to appropriate a certain sum of Money towards erecting Light Houses on the Shores of the River Saint Lawrence and for other purposes therein mentioned.” Under this Act, the place where a lighthouse is to be erected on the Island of Anticosti is changed from the island’s west point to its southwest point. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make provision for the subsistence of the Widow of the late Honorable Alexis Caron. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 63 | 1829 | Under this Act, the widow of the late Honorable Alexis Caron is to be given a sum of seventy-five pounds for her subsistence. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate certain sums of money towards the support of insane Persons and Foundlings and other destitute persons in the District of Three Rivers. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 59 | 1829 | This Act provides several sums of money towards the support of foundlings and the mentally ill in the district of Trois-Rivières. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further provision for the relief of the Indigent Sick, and for the support of Foundlings and others, and to reimburse certain sums of Money advanced for such purposes. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 54 | 1829 | This Act lists several sums of money that are to be applied to several hospitals and religious groups to provide for foundlings and the indigent sick, as described. Restrictions on and directions for how this money should be used are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further provision for the relief of the Indigent Sick, and for the support of Foundlings and others, and to reimburse certain sums of Money advanced for such purposes. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 54 | 1829 | This Act lists several sums of money that are to be applied to several hospitals and religious groups to provide for foundlings and the indigent sick, as described. Restrictions on and directions for how this money should be used are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the advance of a certain sum of money therein mentioned to relieve certain Inhabitants of Lotbiniere from their sufferings through the failure of the last Harvest. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 50 | 1829 | Under this Act, a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds is to be applied to provide relief for the inhabitants of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière following a poor harvest. The processes by which these funds are to be distributed and how they should be used are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of the Poor, in the Loan of Wheat and other Seed Corn. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 25 | 1829 | An Act establishing that lenders of seed for crops including wheat, corn, peas, oats, or potatoes, will be granted a privileged debt by the courts, to encourage those who can spare seed to loan it to poorer inhabitants for a period not more than two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of Money towards erecting Light Houses on the shores of the River Saint Lawrence and for other purposes therein-mentioned. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 24 | 1829 | An Act to apply a sum not exceeding twelve thousand pounds towards building light houses and a floating light at several places along the Saint Lawrence River. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a Sum of Money for establishing a Depot of provisions near Cape Chat, towards the relief of Mariners in distress and other Shipwrecked Persons. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 23 | 1829 | An Act to apply a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds towards establishing at store at the Rivière Sainte-Anne near Cap-Chat for the relief of shipwrecked persons for a year, and to provide a salary for a guardian of the said store of provisions. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further provision for sick disabled Seamen not being Paupers, belonging to this Province. Passed the 19th March, 1827. | 8 George IV Chapter 16 | 1827 | This act stipulates that certain ships entering St. Andrews and Miramichi ports must pay a duty to support hospitals for sick and disbaled sailors. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1827. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1827. |
| An Act to exempt Septuagenary Persons from Imprisonment for debts, in certain cases. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 19 | 1827 | Under this Act, no person seventy years old or over shall be arrested or liable to be arrested for any debt contracted in this Province at the time of the passing of this Act, except as specified. | Early Canadiana Online |