Legislation by Province: Lower Canada (1792-1841)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for granting to His Majesty certain new Duties on the importation into this Province, of all Manufactured Tobacco and Snuff, and for disallowing the Drawback, on Tobacco Manufactured within this Province. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 14 | 1801 | This Act outlines the rates and duties applied to imported tobacco and repeals abated duties in Quebec City, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty, a Duty on Licencing Billiard Tables for hire and for regulating the same. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 13 | 1801 | An Act to implement a licensing system for billiard tables enacted in response to an increase in the number of billiard tables throughout the province. All revenue from the license fees are to be collected by the Secretary of the Province, his deputy, or agent and put in the King's treasury. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying a certain sum of money therein mentioned, to make good the like sum Issued and advanced by His Majesty’s orders, in pursuance of an Address of the House of Assembly. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 12 | 1801 | Under this Act two thousand pounds are to be issued to the Receiver General of the province to make good on the sum of money advanced to the province from the King's treasury. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for better regulating the Common belonging to the Town of Three Rivers. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 11 | 1801 | This Act outlines the process by which a Chair and Trustees are to be elected to govern the Common. The Act also outlines how the land is to be governed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for supplying the City of Montreal and the parts thereunto adjacent with Water.(8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 10 | 1801 | An Act outlining the manner that water works are to be established in Montreal and its surrounding area, including how the land for this purpose is to be obtained and how the company will be set up. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for discontinuing the Judgment which has been required by Law to be given against Women convicted of certain Crimes, and substituting another Judgment in lieu thereof. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 9 | 1801 | This Act amends the method of execution for women convicted of high or petit treason. The practice of burning convicted women to death is replaced with hanging. The Act also dictates that the manner of disposal of the convicts body will be determined by the court. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Article of the Code Civile with its Derogations, as it hath been usually received in this Province, which directs and fixes the Degrees of affinity and consanguinity of Witnesses in Civil Suits. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 8 | 1801 | This Act amends the degrees removed permitted to stand as witnesses in civil matters to Cousins German where parties to the degree of third cousin had formerly been allowed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend certain Forms of Proceeding in the Courts of Civil Jurisdiction in this Province and to facilitate the Administration of Justice. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 7 | 1801 | This Act repeals the practice of getting a writ of summons from a judge to the practice of obtaining said summons from a clerk or prothonotary of the court, and directs the processes of civil court trials. The Act also outlines the due processes in the event that the defendant fails to appear or oppose the decision of the court. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of Insane Persons and for the Support of Foundlings. (8th April, 1801) | 41 George III Chapter 6 | 1801 | This Act grants a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds per annum for the benefit of foundlings or the mentally infirm and dictates who will be responsible to administer this money. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to ratify and confirm certain Provisional Articles of Agreement entered into by the respective Commissioners of this Province and of Upper Canada, at Quebec, on the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one, relative to Duties, and for carrying the lame into effect; and also to continue an Act passed in the thirty seventh year of His Majesty’s Reign. (8th April, 1801.) | 41 George III Chapter 5 | 1801 | This Act ratifies several articles agreed upon by commissioners who negotiated trade agreements between Upper and Lower Canada. | Early Canadiana Online |