Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to confer upon His Majesty certain powers and authorities, necessary to the making, maintaining, and using the Canal intended to be completed under His Majesty's direction, for connecting the waters of Lake Ontario with the River Ottawa, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Passed 17th Feb’y. 1827. | 8 George IV – Chapter 1 | 1827 | This act allows for the building of canals to connect the Ottawa river to the great lakes in order to promote trade, agriculture, and to facilitate the transportation of naval and military stores. It specifies the goods to be allocated, who shall be responsible for supervising the building and allocation of goods, and the appropriation of lands necessary for the project. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act declaratory lo explain the provisions of an Act passed in the fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, chapter thirty-one, relating to Elementary Schools in this Province. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 20 | 1827 | This Act explains the thirty-first chapter of an Act passed in 1824, “An Act to facilitate the Establishment and Endowment of Elementary Schools in the parishes in this Province,” to clarify that any Frabrique not exceeding one acre acquired by the Province upon which there may be a house or edifice proper for the purpose of a school may retain the said land and tenement. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to exempt Septuagenary Persons from Imprisonment for debts, in certain cases. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 19 | 1827 | Under this Act, no person seventy years old or over shall be arrested or liable to be arrested for any debt contracted in this Province at the time of the passing of this Act, except as specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, two Acts therein-mentioned, relating to the Inspection of Fish and Oil intended for exportation. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 16 | 1827 | An Act to further continue an Act from 1823, “An Act to provide for the Inspection of Fish and Oil intended for exportation from the Ports of Quebec and Montreal” and an Act from 1824, “An Act to extend the provisions of a certain Act therein-mentioned, relating to the Inspection of Fish and Oil intended for exportation.” These Acts are to remain in force until 1829. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for removing doubts relating to the powers and proceedings of the Commissioners for the building and repairs of Churches, Parsonage Houses and Church Yards. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 10 | 1827 | An Act to clarify the legality and validity of Commissioners’ acts and proceedings under the 1791 Ordinance, “An Act or Ordinance concerning the building and repairing of Churches, Parsonage Houses and Church Yards.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to provide for the summary Trial of certain Small Causes.” (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 9 | 1827 | An Act to amend an Act passed in 1826, “An Act to provide for the summary Trial of certain Small Causes.” Under this Act, people selling liquor to be consumed off their premises (to be taken away) are allowed to act as Commissioners or Clerks for the trial of small causes as described in the 1826 Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to facilitate the proceedings at Law in certain cases therein-mentioned, relating to Writs of Capias and Attachment. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 8 | 1827 | An Act to allow a Writ of Capias ad Respondendum, or Attachment against the Body of any Defendant, good and sufficient in Law to compel the Defendant to appear in Court and answer to the demand of the Plaintiff, in cases as outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for affording relief, during a limited time, to Insolvent Debtors. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 7 | 1827 | Under this Act, debtors arrested under the Writs of Capias ad satisfaciendum are permitted to be at large (so long as they do not leave the limits) within the City, Town, Borough, or Village where they are situated. This Act is to remain in force until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for move effectually preventing trivial and vexatious Law-Suits, and for restricting the Costs thereupon. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 6 | 1827 | Under this Act, Plaintiffs are not to recover more costs of suit than damages when the Court or Jury finds the damages to be under forty shillings. This is meant to prevent vexatious suits. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish the manner of issuing Licences on which Duties are imposed by any Laws in force in this Province. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 5 | 1827 | Under this Act, all Licences with imposed duties to be granted by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Person administering the Government of this Province, under any former Act in force Province, shall be issued under the Seal at Arms of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor or Person administering the Government of the Province. The manner in which these licences are to be certified and signed are explained. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act more effectually to provide for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places of Public Worship, and for other purposes therein mentioned. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 3 | 1827 | An Act to repeal and replace former Acts from 1821 “An Act for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places used for Public Worship, and for repealing an Act therein mentioned,” and 1825, “An Act to continue for a limited time, and amend an Act passed in the first year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Act for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places used for Public Worship, and for repealing an Act therein mentioned.’” This Act is to remain in force until 1830. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for removing doubts respecting the construction of a certain part of the Act of the thirty-fifth year of the Reign of His late Majesty, George the Third, chap. 4, intituled, “An Act to establish the form of Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, to confirm and make valid in law the Register of the Protestant Congregation of Christ-Church, Montreal, and others which may have been informally kept, and to afford the means of remedying omissions in former Registers,” as also for removing doubts about the validity of certain Marriages herein mentioned. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 2 | 1827 | An Act to clarify the intention of certain word choices within an Act passed in 1795, “An Act to establish the form of Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, to confirm and make valid in law the Register of the Protestant Congregation of Christ-Church, Montreal, and others which may have been informally kept, and to afford the means of remedying omissions in former Registers.” The Act also makes marriages performed by ministers within the Church of Scotland legal and valid under the law. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend so much of an Act of the Thirty-first Year of His late Majesty, as relates to the Election of Members to service in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada. 26th May, 1826. | 7 George IV – Chapter 68 (1826) | 1826 | An amendment to a past act relating to elections of representatives to the Legislative Assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and in amendment of, an Act, made and passed in the thirty-second year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, entitled, “An Act directing the Guardianship of Minors.” | 7 George IV – Chapter 36 | 1826 | An amendment of an act first passed in 1758, which outlines what should be done in the case that a father of children under the age of twenty one years dies and is not married at the time of his death. Provisions stating that appointed guardians must be protestant are repealed, and all other clauses disadvantaging Catholics are also repealed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, made and passed in the fifty-fourth year of His late Majesty’s reign, relating to the quality and exportation of Ton Timber. | 7 George IV – Chapter 35 | 1826 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1814 which regulates the standards and quality for hewed timber to be exported from the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, in addition to an Act, passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, entitled, “An Act for regulating the rates and prices of Carriages.” | 7 George IV – Chapter 33 | 1826 | A continuation of an amended 1759 act passed in 1809, which restricts the price that can be demanded by owners of trucks, carts, and other carriages and provides for a table of allowable rates to be drawn up. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal the last Clause of the Act to prevent the circulation of base and counterfeit Halfpence, and other Copper Coin, and to establish the current value of English Crowns, Half Crowns and Shillings, in this Province. | 7 George IV – Chapter 32 | 1826 | A repeal of the last clause of an act first passed in 1817, which makes provisions to prevent the counterfeiting of half-pence coins and outlines penalties for those found to counterfeit coins. The clause in question pertains to the penalties imposed on those found guilty of forging copper coins. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the Act to prevent Disorderly Riding, and to regulate the Driving of Carriages on the Streets of Halifax, or other Towns, or on the Public Roads of this Province, and for repealing certain Acts therein mentioned. | 7 George IV – Chapter 31 | 1826 | The continuation of an act first passed in 1823, which specifies various rules to be followed by vehicles and horseback riders while using the public roads. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Master of the Rolls in the Court of Chancery. | 7 George IV – Chapter 30 | 1826 | This act issues a salary of 600 pounds per year to the Master of Rolls in the Court of Chancery. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the Services therein mentioned. Passed the 7th of March 1826. | 7 George IV Chapter 30 | 1826 | This act awards sums of money to various persons for their services to the government and for local infrasturcture projects. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1826. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1826. |