Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Private
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to Incorporate a Company under the style and title of “The City of Toronto Gas Light and Water Company.” 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 65 | 1841 | An Act to incorporate "The City of Toronto Gas Light and Water Company" which will provide the city of Toronto with gas and water. The Act allows the company to lay mains and pipes throughout the city and they must have gas fully operational in one year and water within two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate the Ladies of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of Montreal. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 62 | 1841 | An Act to incorporate the "Ladies of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum" to provide care for orphans of the Roman Catholic faith in the city of Montreal. The Act also outlines the way that the company will run and allows married women to make decisions without their husbands' permission. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons therein mentioned, for the purpose of making a Macadamized Road from Dundas Street to the River Humber, in the Township of York. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 60 | 1841 | An Act to incorporate "The Weston Road Company" for the purpose of macadamizing or planking Dundas Street to Humber River in York Township. The Act outlines how the company will run that the regulations that it has as well as allows them to collect tolls on any part of the road once completed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Incorporating the “Canada Fire Assurance Company.” 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 57 | 1841 | An Act to incorporate the "Canada Fire Assurance Company" of Quebec City until 1880. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to incorporate certain persons therein named, under the style and title of “The Sydenham Harbour Company.” 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 56 | 1841 | An Act that incorporates "The Sydenhem Habour Company" for the purpose of building and maintaining a harbour at the mouth of Annis's Creek in the Township of Whitby. Once completed, the company can collect tolls on all boats that use the harbout. After fifty years, the harbour will become property of the crown. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appoint additional Commissioners to settle the affairs of the late pretended Bank of Upper Canada, at Kingston. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 51 | 1841 | An Act to appoint two additional Commissioners to the former Bank of Upper Canada to settle their affairs. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Stock held by private parties in the Welland Canal to be purchased on behalf of the Province. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 48 | 1841 | An Act which allows the government full control of the Welland Canal by creating debtures to the current private stock holders equaling one hundred and seventeen thousand and eight hundred pounds. These debtures last twenty years and have interest that increases by one percent a year. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a sum of money to defray certain expenses relative to the Provincial Steam Dredge of Upper Canada, and for other purposes relative to the said Steam Dredge. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 44 | 1841 | An Act which pays four hundred and seventy-five pounds four shillings and two pence for the Steam Dredge of former Upper Canada to David Thorburn, the commissioner for the management of the steam dredge. Following payment, the dredge will be under the management of the Board of Works. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act of the Legislature of Lower Canada, relative to the establishment of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. 27th August, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 40 | 1841 | An act to amend an Act of former Lower Canada related to Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. The Act allows the Mutual Fire Insurance Company for the County of Montreal and the Counties of Sherbrooke and Stanstead to expend their membership to surrounding counties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate the Upper Canada Academy under the name and style of “Victoria College." 27th August, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 37 | 1841 | An Act to incorporate Upper Canada Academy in Kingston into Victoria College. This gives the them distinction of a college and allows for growth. The college is run by the Wesleyan Methodist Church or the Church of Scotland. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to a certain sum of Money as an aid to the Victoria College. 19th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 34 | 1841 | An Act to provide five thousand pounds to Victoria College from the Consolidated Revenue Fund as aid. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal and amend in part certain Acts and a certain Ordinance therein mentioned, and to extend the powers, and increase the funds of the Corporation of the Trinity House of Quebec. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 15 | 1841 | An Act to repeal previous acts related to Pilots and navigation of the Saint Lawrence River. It also extends the power of the Corporation of Trinity House of Quebec, including buying property for aiding the navigation of the river and regulating the shipping lanes on the river. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to authorize the Corporation of the Trinity House of Quebec, to borrow a certain sum of money, and for other purposes relative to the said Corporation. | 4 Victoria Chapter 5 (Session 6) | 1840 | This Ordinance allows the Trinity House at Quebec to borrow a sum not exceeding in the whole five thousand pounds to pay for improvements to and maintenance of light houses and similar purposes and outlines the terms by which this loan is to be repaid. The Trinity House is also to be provided a decked vessel for laying down and taking up buoys. This Ordinance is made permanent. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make good certain moneys advanced in compliance with the Address of the House of Assembly, during the last Session of the Legislature, for the contingent expenses thereof. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 70 | 1840 | This act authorises the payment of seven thousand nine hundred and eleven pounds to Sir George Arthur, as agreed in the last legislative assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting a Pension to the Widow and Children of the late William Kerry, who was killed in the service of Her Majesty. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 66 | 1840 | This act grants a pension to the widow and children of the late William Kerry, who was killed in an attempt to capture american brigands who had crossed the border into Upper Canada. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting a Pension to Joseph Randal, who lost his arm in the service of Her Majesty. Passed 10tb February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 65 | 1840 | This act grants a pension to Joseph Randal, who lost his arm at Fighting Island clearing canon left behind by rebels of the 1837 uprising. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to remunerate Lewis Bright, for his long and faithful services, by granting a Pension to him and his aged wife, or the survivor of them during their natural lives. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 64 | 1840 | This act grants a pension to Lewis Bright and his wife. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting a sum of money to Samuel B. Smith, to make good a deficiency in his salary, as one of the Junior Clerks in the Executive Council Office, for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 63 | 1840 | This act increases the sum paid to the Samuel B. Smith, one of the junior clerks in the executive council office, by twenty pounds, to make up for a deficiency of the same amount in his salary for 1839. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to remunerate John Kidd for certain services. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 62 | 1840 | This act enables the payment of John Kidd, jailer for the Home district. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to remunerate the Honourable John Henry Dunn, for services rendered to this Province.” Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 61 | 1840 | This act allows John Henry Dunn to keep a portion of a loan made to him by the province as a reimbursement for services he rendered to the province, as per an act passed in 1837. | Early Canadiana Online |