Legislation by Province: Lower Canada (1792-1841)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Ordinance to suspend for a limited time certain parts of two Ordinances therein mentioned, as far as the same relate to the City of Quebec, and to establish a Society therein, for preventing accidents by Fire. | 2 Victoria Chapter 30 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance suspends and replaces two Acts found insufficient relating to the Fire Society in Quebec City, including the 1777 , “An Ordinance for preventing accidents by Fire,” and the 1790, “An Act or Ordinance to amend an Act or Ordinance for preventing accidents by Fire, passed in the seventeenth year of His Majesty’s Reign.” This Ordinance is to remain in force until 1842. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance concerning the erection of Parishes, and the building of Churches, Parsonage Houses and Church Yards. | 2 Victoria Chapter 29 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance makes provision for the appointment of Commissioners for the erection of Parishes in the Province. Their duties, purpose, and instructions for how they should carry out their work are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to exempt certain articles from seizure in satisfaction of debts. | 2 Victoria Chapter 28 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance lists property and items that are not to be seized from debtors, including bedding, wedding clothes, and at least one Cow, three Sheep, one Hog, one Stove, and one Cord of Firewood are to be left for the debtor. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide for the more speedy Attainder of Persons Indicted for High Treason, who have fled from the Province, or remain concealed therein, to escape from Justice. | 2 Victoria Chapter 27 (Session 4) | 1839 | Under this Ordinance, when persons indicted for High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices are not found and do not surrender themselves within three months, they are to be adjudged of the crime they were indicted for, under the processes outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to suspend an Act passed in the tenth and eleventh, years of the Reign of. His late Majesty George the Fourth, intituled, “An Act for the relief of certain Religious Congregations therein-mentioned,” and to make other Legislative provision in the place thereof. | 2 Victoria Chapter 26 (Session 4) | 1839 | Under this Ordinance, all lands held by any religious denomination by virtue of deed is made incommutable property, and the 1830 Act, , “An Act for the relief of certain Religious Congregations therein mentioned,” is suspended. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to suspend in part certain Acts therein mentioned, and to consolidate the Laws relating to duties levied under the authority of the Provincial Legislature. | 2 Victoria Chapter 25 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance consolidates the duties imposed and allowed in the Province into one Ordinance in order to clarify and replace the multiple Acts outlining the same. The acts replaced by this Ordinance are listed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to prolong the term of the Royal Charter incorporating the Quebec Bank, and to make further provision for the government, and management of the said Bank. | 2 Victoria Chapter 24 (Session 4) | 1839 | Under this Ordinance, the Charter that establised “The Quebec Bank” is continued until 1842, under the terms described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to abolish the practice of permitting Defendants to Traverse Indictments, for misdemeanors, before Courts of Oyer and Terminer, in this Province. | 2 Victoria Chapter 23 (Session 4) | 1839 | Under this Ordinance, defendants are required to plead to any indictments for misdemeanors at the trial in Courts of Oyer and Terminer in which the indictment is found, unless good cause is found for putting off the trial. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to revive a certain Act therein mentioned, and to make better provision with regard to the Inspection of Pot and Pearl Ashes. | 2 Victoria Chapter 22 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance revives the 1829 Act, “An Act to suspend for a limited time, certain Acts therein mentioned, and to regulate in a better manner the Inspection of Pot and Pearl Ashes” and makes a few amendments. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance for vesting all the Estates and Property in the Province of Lower Canada, occupied for the Ordnance Service, in the Principal Officers of Her Majesty’s Ordnance, and for granting certain powers to the said Principal Officers, and for other purposes therein-mentioned. | 2 Victoria Chapter 21 (Session 4) | 1839 | Under this Ordinance, all property and servitudes purchased or taken in trust for Her Majesty or her predecessors is to remain and be vested in the principal Officers of Her Majesty’s Ordnance in Great Britain and used for the public services they shall order or direct. This Ordinance is to remain in force until 1842. | Early Canadiana Online |