| An Act for the preservation of Snipes and Woodcocks. |
56 George III – Chapter 5 |
1816 |
This act bans killing snipes or woodcocks during their breeding period and sets penalties for those found to have killed, sold, or bought snipes or woodcocks between March and September. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the Jurisdiction of the Court of Requests. Passed 22d March, 1816. |
56 George III – Chapter 5 |
1816 |
This act allows residents of the province to claim debts smaller than five pounds through the Court of Requests, so long as those debts were not incurred at a venue which sells spirits or through gambling. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter an Act, entitled “An Act for the further regulation of Fisheries and for preventing their decay;” and also to alter another Act, entitled “An Act to alter and amend an Act, entitled ‘An Act for the further regulation of Fisheries, and for preventing their decay.’” Passed the 7th March, 1816. |
56 George III Chapter 4 |
1816 |
This act repeals certain sections of two previously passed pieces of legislation governing the province's fishery. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1816. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1816. |
| An Act in addition to, and in amendment of, an Act, passed in the second year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for regulating the Exportation of Fish, and the Assize of Barrels, Staves, Hoops, Boards, and all other kind of Lumber, and for appointing Officers to Survey the same;” and also of an Act, passed in the thirty-second year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to revive and amend an Act, for establishing the standard weight of Grain, and for appointing proper Officers for measuring Grain, Salt and Coals, and ascertaining the standard size of Bricks, and the quantity of Lime to be contained in a hogshead.” |
56 George III – Chapter 4 |
1816 |
This Act makes amendments to former procedures around trade in cord wood, coal, salt, and grains in response to abuses arising from former policies. The act describes the rates measurers should be paid as well as what was to be done with rotted or crooked wood. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act, further to continue an Act passed in the thirty-third year of His Majesty's Reign entitled, “An Act to provide for the appointment of Returning Officers of the several Counties within this Province. Passed 22d March, 1816. |
56 George III – Chapter 4 |
1816 |
This act continues every clause of an act first passed in 1793 which made it law for the chief administrator to appoint returning officers for every county, riding, division, or town in the province. No clauses are modified. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal part of, and to amend the Laws now in force for the better Collection of His Majesty's Revenue in this Province, and to make further and more effectual Provision for the same. Passed 22d March, 1816. |
56 George III – Chapter 3 |
1816 |
This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1803 concerning the inspection and taxation of liquor sales and licensing, requiring inspectors to submit detailed quarterly reports along with all the taxes they have collected up to that point. A fine of 100 pounds is specified for any inspector who should fail to submit such report at the quarterly sessions. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned, for the Service of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixteen: and for appropriating such part of the Supplies granted in this Session of the General Assembly, as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province. |
56 George III – Chapter 1 |
1816 |
This Act lists the sums that are to be paid to several individuals and institutions for services rendered and salaries during 1816. The Act also lists sums to be paid to fund several infrastructure projects, including the construction of roads and bridges, in the province. The Act finally continues a former Act, “An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the service of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and for appropriating such part of the Supplies granted in this Session of the General Assembly, as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province,” which is to remain in force until 1817. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, an Act passed in the Forty-eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled “An Act to regulate the Trial of Controverted Elections or Returns of Members to serve in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada.” (26th. February, 1816.) |
56 George III Chapter 1 |
1816 |
An act to further continue the act originally passed in 1808 which specifies standards for petitions complaining of undue elections of Members to the House of Assembly. Restrictions including the contents, allowable dates for petitions, and a fee to bring forward a petition were also outlined in the original act. The act is set to expire in 1821. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Trade of this Province in Plaster of Paris or Gypsum, and to prevent contraband Trade arising from the landing that article at or near the Boundary Line of the United States of America. |
55 George III – Chapter 23 |
1815 |
This act was not published. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting a Drawback on Wine, and distilled Spirituous Liquors. |
55 George III – Chapter 22 |
1815 |
This act was not published. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant a Salary to the Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, to enable him to support the dignity of his office, during the present Provincial Parliament. |
55 George III Chapter 21 |
1815 |
Under this Act, the Speaker of the House of Assembly is granted an annual salary of one thousand pounds. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage the Fisheries of the Province, by granting a Bounty on the importation of Salt, and also for regulating and imposing a Duty on the exportation of the same article. |
55 George III – Chapter 20 |
1815 |
This act regulates the price and taxes to be paid for salt in the province, in an attempt to make it more readily available for the fishery and make shortages caused by high prices and supply issues less common. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act imposing a Duty on Articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. |
55 George III – Chapter 18 |
1815 |
This act places a duty on all items imported from the United States, except the named exceptions. The proceeds are to be applied to the support of the poor of the county in which they are collected. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, alter and continue, the several Acts of the General Assembly, for raising a Revenue to repair the Roads throughout the Province, by laying a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licenced to keep Public Houses and Shops for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. |
55 George III – Chapter 17 |
1815 |
This act continues various past acts relating to raising revenues to repair and build roads, particularly to those acts which appropriate the revenue raised by charging licensing fees for the sale of alcoholic beverages. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make good the Deficiency of the Funds by Law provided, for paying the Salaries of the Officers of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, and the contingent expences thereof. (25th March, 1815.) |
55 George III Chapter 17 |
1815 |
This Act outlines where funds for paying back an amount advanced to pay the salaries of the officers of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly are to be taken from, as the monies allowed for this purpose by two former Acts were insufficient. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant a sum of Money to His Majesty to enable the honorable James Baby to pay for a certain quantity of Hemp delivered to him as Commissioner for the purpose of Hemp in the Western District of this Province. Passed the 14th March, 1815. |
55 George III – Chapter 17 |
1815 |
This Act grants fund for the purchase of hemp. |
Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |
| An Act to repeal part of, and to amend an act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the forty first year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “an act to remove doubts with respect to the authority under which the Courts of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and other Courts, have been erected and holden, and other matters relative to the Adminstration of Justice, done in the several Districts of this Province, and also to fix the time of holding the Courts of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and for the same,” and to make further provision for, the same. Passed the 14th March, 1815. |
55 George III – Chapter 16 |
1815 |
This Act repeals previous acts concerning the administration of justice, implementing new provisions for the erection of courts and goals. |
Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |
| An Act to continue, alter and amend, the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, now in force, relating to a Militia. |
55 George III – Chapter 15 |
1815 |
A continuation of several past acts regarding the organisation and discipline of the provincial militia, with two minor amendments. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, two Acts therein mentioned for the better regulation of Lumber Trade. (25th March, 1815.) |
55 George III Chapter 15 |
1815 |
An act to continue an act originally passed in 1808, and extended in 1811 and 813 by the same name. The original act placed regulations on the export of certain types of lumber and made it lawful for the governor to appoint Master Cullers and Measurers of boards and planks, staves, timber, and masts and spars at the ports of Montreal and Quebec. Expectations and duties for these positions and standards for lumber being exported were outlined. The act is to expire in 1817. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide an Easier Method than is now used for Barring Estates Tail in Lands. |
55 George III – Chapter 14 |
1815 |
This act defines how the inherited rights of tenants are to be protected and processed in courts when lands are transferred between owners. |
Early Canadiana Online |