Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Local
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to authorize Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Gloucester to assess the said County to pay off the County Debts. Passed 15th March 1851. | 14 Victoria Chapter 2 New Brunswick Local Acts | 1851 | This act allows for Gloucester County authorities to raise extra funds to pay down the county debt. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1851. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1851. |
| An Act for erecting the Parish of Caraquet, in the County of Gloucester, into two separate Parishes. Passed 15th March 1851. | 14 Victoria Chapter 1 New Brunswick Local Acts | 1851 | This act creates a new parish, Shippegan, in Gloucester County and endows it with the powers of other parishes. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1851. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1851. |
| An Act to make provision for the management of the Temporalities of the United Church of England and Ireland in the Diocese of Montreal, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 176 | 1851 | This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1842, which outlines the management of the United Church of England and Ireland in the Diocese of Quebec, including the election of Church-wardens, meetings of the Vestry, and other matters of management. The amendments pertain specifically to the diocese of Montreal. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for incorporating and granting certain powers to a Company for the encouragement of Manufactures on the Welland Canal. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 152 | 1851 | This act allows for government loans to be granted to individuals along the Welland Canal for in order to encourage the development and construction of new mills and factories. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to allow a Grant of the Hospital Reserve, Belleville, to the Town Council. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 140 | 1851 | This act directs the town council of Belleville to grant new plots for the purposes of building a hospital, as the original plots have been found to be unsuitable for the purpose. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the County of Welland Municipal Council to purchase certain lands in the said County, known as the Great Cranberry Marsh, and for other purposes. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 139 | 1851 | This act allows the municipal council for the county of Welland to purchase a plot of land known as the Great Cranberry Marsh. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Municipal Council of the United Counties of Wentworth and Halton to dispose of a part of the present Court House Square. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 138 | 1851 | This act allows the municipal council of Wentworth and Halton to sell the present Court House square, which is too central to be a suitable site for a jailhouse. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to remedy, as far as possible, the inconvenience which might otherwise arise from the destruction of the Registers of the Parish of St. Louis de Lotbinière. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 137 | 1851 | This act attempts to rectify the loss of parish registers due to a fire that destroyed the Parish of St. Louis de Lotbinière. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Erection of Parishes, for Civil Purposes only, in the Seigniory of Argenteuil, in Lower Canada. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 136 | 1851 | This act revives a past act which authorizes the inhabitants of Argenteuil to regulate the said town. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive the Act authorizing the Inhabitants of the Seigniory of Yamaska to regulate the Common of the said Seigniory. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 135 | 1851 | This act revives a past act which authorizes the inhabitants of Yamaska to regulate the said town. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive and amend the Act relating to the Common of Maskinongé. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 134 | 1851 | This act revives and amends a past act which authorizes the inhabitants of Maskinongé to regulate the said town. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Quebec Turnpike Roads, to issue Debentures to a limited amount, for the purpose of buying and rebuilding the Montmorency Bridge. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 133 | 1851 | This act allows the trustees of the trustees of the Quebec Turnpike Roads to borrow up to five thousand pounds to rebuild the Montmorency Bridge. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Quebec Turnpike Road Trustees to effect a new Loan, and to extend the provisions of the Quebec Turnpike Road Ordinance to certain other Roads. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 132 | 1851 | This act grants a loan to the Quebec Turnpike Road trustees in order to maintain and build new roads in the city. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to amend the Acts for supplying the City of Quebec and parts adjacent thereto with Water. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 131 | 1851 | This act defines the rates at which various businesses and dwellings within the city of Quebec will be charged for being supplied with water. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide means to recover from the Corporation of the City of Montreal, part of the expense incurred in guarding the Common Gaol at that place. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 129 | 1851 | This act makes provisions for the city of Montreal to start paying towards the expenses of the local jailhouse. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the regulation of Hunting and the preservation of Game. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 107 | 1851 | This act creates a yearly season for hunting game birds on the beaches of Kamouraska, and sets rules surrounding the annual hunt. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to increase the number of sittings of the Circuit Court at Richmond and Stanstead. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 91 | 1851 | This act increases the number of times the circuit courts at Richmond and Stanstead sit every year. The dates at which the respective courts will sit are specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend the Laws regulating the Election of Members of the Legislative Assembly in certain Counties, in so far as relates to the Return of Writs. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 87 | 1851 | This act amends the elections act for the Saguenay and Isle de Madeleine regions of Lower Canada, due to their inaccessibility, to assure that these counties are always represented in the legislature. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate all moneys accruing out of Tavern Licenses in the Counties which form the District of Kamouraska, and in the County of Ottawa, towards defraying the cost of the Court House and Gaol erected at Kamouraska, and the Court House and Gaol now being erected in Aylmer. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 63 | 1851 | This act redirects the funds raised from the fees paid by tavern keepers for their licenses to the construction costs of a new county court house. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to remove doubt as to Municipal Corporate Bodies acquiring Public Works without the limits of such Municipalities. 30th August, 1851. | 14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 57 | 1851 | This act clarifies a past act called "An Act for the better management of the Public Debt, Accounts, Revenue and Property," which makes it possible for municipalities to purchase public works owned by private corporations. | Early Canadiana Online |