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 continue for a limited time, an Act passed in the fifty-first year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the relief of Insane persons and for the support of Foundlings and others therein mentioned,” and also to grant a further sum of money for the more effectual attainment of the purposes of the said Act. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 14 | 1815 | An act to continue an act by the same name passed in 1811, continued in 1813, and amended in 1814. The original act was to provide support to people of 'deranged Intellect', incapable of earning their subsistence, foundlings, sick and infirm persons, as well as the support of Religious communities that administer relief. This act grants a sum not exceeding three thousand pounds, for the benefit of foundlings or the mentally infirm and dictates who will be responsible to administer this money. This act specifies the maximum funds permitted per district, including fifteen hundred pounds, for the District of Quebec, of one thousand pounds for the District of Montreal and of Five hundred pounds for the District of Trois-Rivières. The 1813 act also made it lawful for Commissioners to bind out foundlings of a proper age as apprentices. The act is to expire in 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting to His Majesty a certain sum of Money for the uses of the Incorporated Militia of this Province, and other purposes therein mentioned. Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 13 | 1815 | This Act grants funds for the incorporation of the militia, detailing sums by officers. | 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 the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, herein after mentioned. | 55 George III – Chapter 12 | 1815 | An act repealing several past acts pertaining to revenue collection for the purposes of defence. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time certain parts of an Act passed in the Forty-second year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to provide for the more effectual regulation of the Police within the Cities of Quebec and Montreal, and Town of Three-Rivers; also for extending regulations of Police to other Towns and Villages in certain cases, and for repealing the Acts or Ordinances therein mentioned.” (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 12 | 1815 | An act to extend "An Act to provide for the more effectual regulation of the Police within the Cities of Quebec and Montreal and Town of Three Rivers; also for extending Regulations of Police to other Towns and villages in certain cases; and for repealing the Acts or Ordinances therein mentioned,” passed in 1802 and continued in 1807, 1811, and 1813. The former act outlined the rules police in localities throughout the province must abide by, including that laws must be announced before they are enforced and that financial penalties cannot exceed five pounds, except in the circumstances described. The act is to expire in 1816. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the accommodation of the Provincial Legislature at its next Session. Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 12 | 1815 | This Act grants funds for providing for members of the Provincial Legislature. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |
| An Act for making a temporary provision for the regulation of Trade between this Province and the United States of America by Land, or by inland Navigation. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 11 | 1815 | An act to further continue an act from 1796, and amended in 1808 for a limited time. The act grants the Governor or Lieutenant Governor the authority to suspend, revive, annul, or make void this act, or every and any of its clauses. Th act allows the suspension of any act or ordinance relating to trade, in whole or in part, by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor. It further allows the Governor or Lieutenant Governor to make regulations with respect to imports, exports, duties, or anything else between Lower Canada and the United States. The act is to expire in 1816. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Licence Practitioners in Physic and Surgery throughout this Province. Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 10 | 1815 | This Act details the process for licensing medical practitioners. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |
| An Act to amend an act, 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 Administration 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.” Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 9 | 1815 | This Act creates new provisions reminiscent of an act concerning to the administration of justice. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of an Act, passed in the twenty-second year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to restrain Hawkers and Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen, not duly licenced to trade, travelling to and fro through the Country.” | 55 George III – Chapter 8 | 1815 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1782, which requires anybody wishing to travel around the province to sell goods and merchandise to first acquire a license. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to improve the Internal Communications of this Province. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 8 | 1815 | An Act to advance a sum of eight thousand six hundred pounds towards the improvement of internal communities within the province under the direction of the Grand Voyer of the District of Quebec or his Deputy. Specific allowances within the districts of Quebec, Montrèal, and Trois-Rivières are outlined, as well as how Commissioners will be appointed within these districts. The Act specifies where some of these roads and bridges are to be constructed and grants further sums towards to purposes outlined in the 1808 Act “An Act to appropriate a sum of money therein mentioned to assist in opening a Road of communication between the Parish of Saint Pierre in Saint Paul's Bay and the Parishes of Saint Féréol and Saint Joachim.” Additionally, plans are to be prepared for the next Session outlining how to make the River Richelieu navigable between Chambly and Saint John. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the rebuilding and repair certain Gaols and Court Houses in this Province. Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 8 | 1815 | This Act provides funds and management for the construction and maintenance of buildings in the legal system. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |
| An Act to revive and continue an Act, passed in the fifty-first year of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for the more easy recovery of Debts against Co-Partners and Joint Debtors.” | 55 George III – Chapter 7 | 1815 | A continuation of an act first passed in 1811, which makes it easier to proceed against debtors who hold debt jointly, whether they be in province or out of province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage and diffuse the practice of Vaccine Inoculation. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 6 | 1815 | An Act to apply the sum of one thousand pounds through the districts of Quebec, Montrèal, Trois-Rivières, and Gaspé to defray the expenses necessary for diffusing the practice of vaccine inoculation. The processes by which physicians or surgeons will be appointed to administer vaccines, as well as procedural stipulations they are to abide by are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the fifty third year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, "an act to provide for the maintenance of persons disabled, and the widows and children of such persons as maybe killed in His Majesty's Service." Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III Chapter 6 | 1815 | This Act alters a previous act concerning provision for disabled peoples and widows and children of the militia killed in action, by granting them yearly funds. | 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 an Act, passed in the fifty-second year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act in further addition to the Act relating to Wills, Legacies, and Executors; and for the settlement and distribution of the Estates of Intestates.” | 55 George III – Chapter 6 | 1815 | A continuation of an act passed in 1812, which allows for the estates of debtors to be distributed to creditors against the estate. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and amend an Act passed in the Fifty-First year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to repeal an Act passed in the forty seventh year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, An Act to repeal the several acts now in force in this Province relative to Rates and Assessments, and also to particularize the Property Real and Personal, which during the continuance thereof, shall he subject to rates and assessments, and fixing the several valuations at which each and every particular of such property shall be rated and assessed, and to make further provision for the same.” Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 5 | 1815 | This Act extends the deadline imposed by a previous act concerning the management of property. | 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 an Act passed in Forty-second Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to empower the Justices of the Peace, to make for a limited time, Rules and Regulations for the Government of Apprentices and others.” (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 4 | 1815 | An act to extend “An Act to empower the Justices of the peace to make for a limited time Rules and Regulations for the Government of Apprentices and others,” originally passed in 1802 and extended in 1811. The original act granted Justices of the Peace the authority to regulate apprentices, domestics, hired servants, journeymen, and their masters and mistresses. It outlined the permissible punishments for apprentices, domestics, hired servants, or journeymen who break the rules and regulations. This act is continued until 1817. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal the first clause of an Act, made in the twenty-eighth year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act in amendment of an Act, made in the twenty-first year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act in addition to an Act, made in the tenth year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, an Act for establishing the Toll to be taken at the several Grist Mills in this Province.’” | 55 George III – Chapter 4 | 1815 | This Act repeals the first clause of an act passed in 1787, which was an amendment to an act first passed in 1770. The original act dealt with the toll rates for bolting in order to cover the costs of erecting and repairing bolting machines. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant new Duties to His Majesty, to supply the wants of the Province. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 3 | 1815 | An act to impose new duties on items including varies teas, wines, molasses, and syrups. The rates of these duties are set. The act also specifies the processes by which licenses for auctioning the goods subject to these duties are to be obtained, including the oath or affirmation auctioneers must swear to when rendering their accounts to the Receiver General. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to afford relief to Barristers and Attornies, and to provide for the admission of Law Students within this Province, under other purposes therein mentioned. Passed the 14th March, 1815. | 55 George III – Chapter 3 | 1815 | This Act provides funds and conduct for lawyers working within the legal system. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1815. Kingston: Stephen Miles, 1815. |