Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Private
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to provide for the lighting of the City of Montreal, by Gas. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 18 | 1836 | This Act establishes the “The Montreal Gas Light Company,” as a body politic and corporate, and outlines how the company should operate. This Act is to remain in force until 1861. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for erecting a Suspension Bridge over the Niagara River at or near Queenston, in Upper Canada. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 12 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Niagara River Suspension Bridge company, authorising it to construct a bridge over the Niagara River at or near Queenstown. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons under the style and title of the Hamilton Water Works Company. Passed 20th April, 1856. | 6 William IV – Chapter 11 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Hamilton Water Works company. It specifies their relationship and responsibilities to property owners, and allows them to survey and acquire land best suited for their project. It subjects those who would damage or disrupt the construction of the company to penalties, and specifies how stocks are to be divided and sold. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons under the style and title of the Cayuga Bridge Company. Passed, 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 10 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Cayuga Bridge company, specifying the price and division of company shares and the manner in which directors shall be nominated. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate a Company under the style and title of the City of Toronto Gas Light Company. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 9 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Toronto Gas Light Company, naming its directors, enabling it to acquire property and goods, and makes regulations concerning the creation and sale of company shares. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate sundry persons under the style and title of the Gananoque and Wiltsie Navigation Company. Passed, 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 8 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Gananoque and Wiltsie Navigation Companie. It enables them to acquire land in order to build dykes, locks and channels, and other structures to enable navigation, defines how shares are to be sold, as well as determining how share ownership will affect company directorship, and stipulates various regulations for the company to follow concerning maintenance and access for trade. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate a Company to construct a Rail Road from Burlington Bay, to Lake Huron. Passed, 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 7 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates a company to build a railroad from Burlington Bay in the district of Gore to Lake Huron after petitions from residents. The company is empowered to survey land to determine where best to lay this railroad and acquire this land. Directors and their responsibilities are specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons therein-mentioned under the name and style of the Niagara and Detroit Rivers Rail Road Company. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 6 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Niagara and Detroit Rivers Railroad company, enabling it to explore, purchase and acquire land in order to build a railroad between the town of Bertie, in Niagara, and Sandwich, on the Detroit river. The directors are named and their responsibilities specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend and extend the Provisions of an Act, intituled “An Act for making a Rail-Road from Lake Champlain to the River Saint Lawrence.” (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 6 | 1836 | This Act amends the 1832 Act, "An Act for making a Rail-Road from Lake-Champlain to the River Saint Lawrence." The Act grants the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Rail-Road company the tight to ferry goods, chattels, wares, commodities and passengers across the Saint Lawrence into the Harour of Montreal. The tariffs that may be charged on such items are listed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Rail Road Company. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Toronto and Lake Huron Rail Road company, giving them the right to survey and purchase lands and determine where best to lay a railroad between the city of Toronto and Lake Huron. It names the directors of the company and outlines their responsibilities to stockholders, as well as specifying the powers which stockholders will hold within the company. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent Bodies Corporate, within this Province, from entering upon, and taking possession of the Lands of the Crown, without permission from His Majesty. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act prevents any body corporate from building railroads, canals, or any other structure upon public lands without His Majesty's assent. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting a Loan to the Cobourg Harbour Company. Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 43 | 1835 | This act allows for a loan to be paid out to the Cobourg Habour Company to allow them to complete their habour, specifying the terms of interest and repayment. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the promotion of Science by enabling the Mechanics Institute of the City of Toronto to procure certain Apparatus. Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 38 | 1835 | This act authorises the use of two hundred pounds of public funds for the acquisition and holding of instruments and tools for the study of natural sciences, geography, and astronomy for the benefit of encouraging the promotion of the sciences through the Mechanics Institute of Toronto. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the remuneration of Dean S. Howard, for Extra Work performed by him in the erection of the Trent Bridge. Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 35 | 1835 | This act authorises an amount of money to be paid to Dean S. Howard for contract work building the Trent bridge. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act authorising a Loan to the President and Directors of the Desjardin's Canal Company. Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 34 | 1835 | This act authorises a loan of seven thousand pounds to be paid to the Desjardin Canal company, specifying terms such as rates of interest, and stating that the company will be responsible for the payment of the interest from the tolls charge on canal access. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain and amend an Act Incorporating the Welland Canal Company, and for appointing Arbitrators for certain purposes therein mentioned. Passed 16th April 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 24 | 1835 | This act is an amendment to an act passed in 1834, which allowed the Welland Canal Company to purchase more stocks in the company. It also states that the company will be responsible for the repair of bridges over the canals which are within their jurisdiction, and will be fined for every day their bridges are in poor repair. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and amend an Act passed in the second year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for Incorporating a Joint Stock Company under the style and title of the President, Directors and Company, of the Port Dover Harbour.” Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 23 | 1835 | Early Canadiana Online | |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons therein mentioned, under the Name and Style of the Erie and Ontario Rail Road Company. Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 19 | 1835 | This act incorporates the Erie and Ontario railroad company, detailing their rights and responsibilities as a company to survey land to determine where would be the best place to lay railroad track, how shares are to be managed and distributed, the acquisition of private land for the use of building said railroad. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Incorporating certain Persons therein named, and their Associates, under the Style and Title of the Cayuga Glass Manufacturing Company. Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 18 | 1835 | This act incorporates the Cayuga Glass Manufacturing company, specifying the owners, price of shares, number and responsibility of directors, and the rights of stockholders. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate sundry persons under the Style and Title of the Hamilton and Port Dover Rail Road Company. Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 17 | 1835 | This act incorporates the Hamilton and Port Dover Rail Road company, empowering the said company acquire lands to build a railroad and explore land to determine where best such a railroad could be built. It specifies how many directors will run the company, what their responsibilities are, the number of votes each stockholder is entitled to, and other regulations touching on corporate and financial management. | Early Canadiana Online |