Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Private
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to provide for a Commission of Lunacy and Idiotcy, in the case of Peter Vanalstine. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 19 | 1829 | On behalf of the family of Peter Vanalstine, this legislation calls for the creation of a panel of twelve judges to decide whether the said Mr. Vanalstine be competent to manage his own affairs. If the panel should find that he his not competent, they are empowered to take possession of all his possessions, both movable and immovable, and bargain for the sale or lease of his lands, and manage any and all of his affairs "as if actually executed by Peter Vanalstine in sound mind." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons for the purpose of holding Lands for a Free Church in Dundas, in the District of Gore. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 17 | 1829 | This act incorporates the Free church in Dundas and deeds a plot of land for the purpose of a church a graveyard. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons for the purpose of making a Turnpike Road in the County of Hatton, under the name of the “Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Company.” Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 15 | 1829 | This act makes provisions for the improvement of roads in the district of Gore by incorporating the Dundas and Waterloo Turnpike Company, and empowering it to undertake road work in the area. It allows the company to toll the roads once they are complete in order to recover costs. It specifies penalties for land owners who should allow travelers to pass through their lands with the aim of avoiding the road tolls, and exempts tolls for those travelling to and from church services. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain Persons therein named, under the style and title of the “Port Hope Harbour and Wharf Company.” Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 12 | 1829 | This act incorporates the Port Hope Harbour and Wharf Company, and empowers them to build a harbour and any related infrastructure such as wharves, buildings, or anything else that serves to help in navigation or protection of the harbour. The company is also empowered to toll vessels coming into the harbour, and the legislation specifies how much certain items coming into harbour are to be tolled. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Improve the Navigation of Lake Ontario, by authorising the construction of a Harbour at Cobourg, by a Joint Stock Company. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 11 | 1829 | This act incorporates the Cobourg Habour Company and empowers them to build a harbour at Cobourg to facilitate navigation. It also permits the company to collect tolls from incoming vessels once the harbour is constructed, specifying what tolls shall be collected on what goods. Management of stocks by shareholders is also specified in this legislation. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to render effectual certain Securities to be given by the Welland Canal Company, for a Loan advanced by His Majesty’s Government, and for other purposes relating to the said Canal: and also, for authorizing the making a lateral Cut from the Welland Canal, through the Town of Niagara to the mouth of the River Niagara, by a Company incorporated for that purpose. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 9 | 1829 | This act provides further loans for the Welland Canal Company for the purpose of completing their canal project, along with specifying terms by which they can hire workers, and the size of the structures which they can build on waterways. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make more effectual provision for settling the affairs of the late pretended Bank of Upper Canada. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 7 | 1829 | This act legislates certain provisions and securities to be made in order to settle the business of the Bank of Upper Canada, which has failed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate annually a certain sum of Money therein-mentioned, to enable His Majesty to pay a Pension to Mr. Justice Bedard. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 72 | 1829 | This Act grants a sum of four hundred pounds, annually, as a pension to Pierre Bedard, who had to resign his position as Provincial Judge due to ill health. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to autorize the purchase of a certain number of Copies of the Topographical Map and Statistical Tables to be published by Joseph Bouchette, Esquire. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 68 | 1829 | This Act authorizes the purchase and distribution of one hundred copies of the topographical map and statistical tables produced by Joseph Bouchette. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of Money for the Encouragement of Pierre Chasseur, in forming a collection of Subjects of the Natural History of the Canadas. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 67 | 1829 | Under this Act, Pierre Chasseur is to receive a sum not exceeding three hundred and fifty pounds to encourage the enlargement and study of his collection of natural subjects. |
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| An Act to authorize a certain sum of Money therein mentioned, to be refunded to Alexander Wood. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 66 | 1829 | This Act refunds a sum of fifty pounds, three shillings and sixpence currency to Alexander Wood, as they were collected as duties against the intention of the Act that outlined such expenses. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the payment of a certain sum of Money to compensate for certain services performed by Benjamin Ecuyer. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 65 | 1829 | This Act grants a sum of seventy-four pounds, nine pence to Benjamin Ecuyer to cover his losses for work done in laying out the Kennbec Road. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of Money, to indemnify the third Arbitrator appointed for adjusting the proportion of the Revenue appertaining to Upper-Canada. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 64 | 1829 | This act grants a sum not exceeding ninety pounds to William Maitland, of London, Esquire, for his disbursements as third Arbitrator for regulating the proportion of the Revenues appertaining to Upper-Canada. | 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 indemnify Antoine Gilbert Douglas for certain expenses by him incurred about the road from Saint Gregoire to the Township of Kingsey. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 62 | 1829 | Under this Act, a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds is to be applied towards covering the debt incurred by Antoine Gilbert Douglas for completing a road from Saint-Grégoire to the Township of Kingsey. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to incorporate certain persons. therein-named, under the name of the "Quebec Fire Assurance Company.” (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 58 | 1829 | This Act lists the individuals that compose the ““The Quebec Fire Assurance Company,” that offers insurance against losses by fire. Under this Act, amendments are made to the company’s rates of premium, shares of the Capital Stock, and the company is allowed to invest in real estate. The company is to continue and have succession until 1868 unless otherwise authorised or repealed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act for enabling His Majesty to grant to a Company, to be Incorporated by Charter, to be called “ The Canada Company,” certain Lands in the Province of Upper Canada. 15th July, 1828. | 9 George IV – Chapter 51 | 1829 | An amendment to the incorporation of the Canada Company, further defining their permissions as an incorporated company as well as their responsibilities to the crown, to the legislature, and to their employees. This act was appended to the legislative acts of Upper Canada of 1829. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the Provisions of two Acts therein mentioned for the benefit of the Company of Proprietors of the Montreal Library. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 45 | 1829 | This Act extends the provisions of the 1819 Act “An Act to appropriate a certain Lot of Ground in the City of Montreal for the Site of a Public Library, and to incorporate certain Persons therein-mentioned,” and extends the term allowed for the Company of Proprietors of the Montreal Library to erect a library as provided for by an Act passed in 1824, “An Act to extend the provisions of an Act therein-mentioned, passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Chapter twenty-second, in favor of the Proprietors of the Montreal Library.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the advance of a certain sum of money to the Natural History Society of Montreal. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 44 | 1829 | An act to advance a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds to the Natural History Society of Montreal to be used in the prosecution of their research. Under this Act, the museum of library of the Society are to remain open to the public. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish a certain Market Place, in the City of Montreal. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 39 | 1829 | This Act outlines how a plot of land, and the market stalls built upon it, owned by François Antoine Larocque, Jules Maurice Quesnel, and Alexis Laframboise are to be made a public market. Details for how this will be funded, and the location of the site, are described. | Early Canadiana Online |