Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Local

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Title Chapter Date Passed Legislative Summary Source Document
An Act to confirm certain Marriages, heretofore solemnized in the Inferior District of Gaspé. (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 19 1821 An Act to confirm that marriages solemnized by ministers of the Church of Scotland, Protestant Dissenting ministers, or Justices of the Peace within District of Gaspé are valid in Law to all civil effects. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to partition the Common of the Seigneurie of Boucherville, among the persons having a right of Commonage in the said Common. (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 17 1821 An Act to partition the tract of land called the Common in the Seigneurie of Boucherville among the proprietors of that land. The processes by which the land will be partitioned out is described, including how a commissioner will be appointed for this purpose and their duties. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to establish a Public Market Place in the Saint Lawrence Suburbs of the City of Montreal. (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 16 1821 An Act to authorise several individuals, called "The Corporation of the Market for the St. Lawrence Suburbs in the City of Montreal," to build a public market place on a lot bounded on the west by La Gauchetière street on the south by Saint-Charles-Borromée street and extending eastward as far as may be judged necessary. The processes for the construction of the market stalls, as well as the duties of the said Corporation, are outlined. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to extend to the Town of Three-Rivers certain provisions, contained in an Ordinance, passed in the twenty-seventh year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Ordinance to explain and amend an Ordinance for establishing Courts of Criminal Jurisdiction in the Province of Quebec.” (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 15 1821 An Act to extend the provisions from an Ordinance passed in 1787 relating to the appointment of constables to the Town of Trois-Rivières. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to grant a further sum of money to complete the Court House for the District of Three-Rivers. (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 14 1821 An Act to grant an additional sum not exceeding three thousand four hundred and one pounds, eight shillings and three pence to the purpose of completing the Court House for the District of Trois-Rivières. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue for a limited time, an Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to provide more effectually for the security of the Cities of Quebec and Montreal, and for establishing a Watch and Night Lights, in the said Cities, and for other purposes.” (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 11 1821 An Act to continue an Act passed in 1818. Under the original Act, the Justices of the Peace residing in the cities of Quebec and Montreal were allowed to establish any number of men they deem necessary as Night Watchmen and cause the principal streets, public places, lanes, and avenues, to be lit by lamps at night. This act is to expire in 1823. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to encourage the practice of Vaccine Inoculation and to appropriate a certain sum of money for that purpose. (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 7 1821 An Act to apply the sum of fifteen hundred pounds through the province to defray the expenses necessary to fight against the extension of smallpox and to diffuse the practice of vaccine inoculation. The distribution of these funds between the districts of Quebec, Montrèal, Trois-Rivières, and Gaspé is described. The Act outlines how “The Board to provide against the extension of the Small-pox, to promote Vaccine Inoculation” is to be appointed and their responsibilities. Early Canadiana Online
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. (17th March, 1821.) 1 George IV Chapter 6 1821 An Act to allow for the construction and to outline the maintenance of a Canal from Montreal to Lachine in the event that the Company of Proprietors authorised to do so under a 1819 Act, "An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the neighbourhood of the City of Montreal to the Parish of Lachine, in the Island and County of Montreal" fail to fulfill the terms of that Act. The terms by which the Canal's construction is to be completed, and the funds to be appropriated for that cause are described. The Act also repeals an Act from 1815, “An Act to grant an aid to His Majesty, to assist in opening a Canal from the neighbourhood of Montreal to Lachine, and further to provide for facilitating the same.” Early Canadiana Online
An Act to extend an Act for appointing Firewards, ascertaining their duty, and for punishing thefts and disorders at the time of Fire, and also the Acts in addition to and amendment thereof, to the Town of Dartmouth. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 32 1821 This act extends the 1762 act appointing firewards for the town of Halifax to Dartmouth. LLMC Digital Law Library
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 an act, in amendment thereof, passed in the forty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 27 1821 This act was not published. LLMC Digital Law Library
An Act to continue an Act for establishing a Bridewell or House of Correction for the County of Halifax, and for providing a Police Office in said Town, with proper Officers to attend the same. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 26 1821 This act was not published. LLMC Digital Law Library
An Act to continue the several Acts respecting the Liverpool and Cranberry Island Light-Houses. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 24 1821 This act was not published. LLMC Digital Law Library
An Act to continue an Act, made and passed in the thirty-eighth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An act to amend and render more effectual an Act, passed in the eighteenth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act to prevent forestalling, regrating, and monopolizing, of Cord Wood, in the Town of Halifax,’ and also the Act now in force in addition thereto.” 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 22 1821 This act was not published. LLMC Digital Law Library
An Act to extend part of an Act, passed in the fiftieth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, in amendment of an Act relating to the repairing and paving the Streets in the Town of Halifax, to the Towns of Annapolis and Digby. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 21 1821 This act extends the first clause of an act passed in 1809, originally applied to Halifax, to the towns of Annapolis and Digby. The act in question is an amendment to an 1801 act, and the clause being applied requires residents to keep the streets and gutters in front of their houses clean and free of debris and nuisances. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue an Act, entitled, “An Act for the better preservation of the Property of the Inhabitants of the Town of Halifax, by providing for a sufficient Watch at Night.” 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 15 1821 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue the several Acts, for regulating the Summary Trial of Actions before His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 8 1821 This act was not published. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to make perpetual an Act in addition to an Act for regulating the Common belonging to the Township of Lunenburg. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 7 1821 This act makes perpetual an act regarding the regulation of the Lunenburg Common. It should be noted that the act refers to the title, "An Act for regulating the Common belonging to the Township of Lunenburg," an act which was passed in 34 Geo II (1760), but the regnal year referred to within this act is 58 Geo III, indicating they are probably referring to an amendment to the original act, "An Act in addition to an Act, passed in the thirty-fourth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, 'An Act for regulating the Common belonging to the Township of Lunenburg'" (1818). LLMC Digital Law Library
An Act to enable the Proprietors of Wilderness Lands in the Township of Truro, to open Roads through the same. 1 & 2 George IV – Chapter 3 1821 This act makes provisions for roads to be built to several undeveloped lots surrounding the town of Truro. The labour is to be undertaken by the proprietor of these lots, and the value of said labour is to be determined by surveyors, who will determine the value of the lots for the purpose of sale. LLMC Digital Law Library
An Act to continue an Act for establishing a Bridewell or House of Correction, for the County of Halifax, and for providing a Police Office in the said Town, with proper Officers to attend the same. 60 George III – Chapter 27 1820 A continuation of an act first passed in 1815, which established a bridewell in Halifax, a type of jail for offenders who commit petty crimes. Early Canadiana Online
An Act further to alter and amend an Act, intituled “An Act for the establishment, regulation, and improvement, of the Great Roads of communication through the Province.” Passed the 29th of March 1820. 60 George III Chapter 24 1820 This act changes the terms of a previous act for laying out a road between Fredericton and the Miramichi area, altering where it will be laid and how labour will be acquired to do it. Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1820. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1820.