Legislation by Province: Lower Canada (1792-1841)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Ordinance to appropriate certain sums of money therein-mentioned to the support of certain Charitable Institutions, and for other purposes. | 1 Victoria Chapter 17 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Ordinance distributes several sums to reimburse the expenses incurred by several charitable and healthcare institutions in the Province. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined. The Ordinance also makes provisions respecting Guardians for foundlings. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to appropriate certain sums of money therein mentioned, to the encouragement of Education. | 1 Victoria Chapter 16 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Ordinance lists several sums to be distributed to schools through the Province and gives certain instructions on how these funds are to be used and accounted for. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to enable the Governor, or person Administering the Government of this Province, to extend a conditional pardon, in certain cases, to persons who have been concerned in the late Insurrection. | 1 Victoria Chapter 15 (Session 1) | 1838 | Under this Ordinance, it is made lawful for the Governor or person administering the government to pardon persons charged with High Treason before their arraignment under such terms as deemed proper, within the limits described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to incorporate certain persons therein named, under the name of “The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of Montreal.” | 1 Victoria Chapter 14 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Ordinance establishes “The President, Directors and Company of the ‘Bank of Montreal,’” as a corporation, body politic, and corporate. The Ordinance outlines how this company shall function and lists several rules and regulations it must abide by. To forms relating to the stock in the company follow its articles. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue for a limited time, certain Acts of the Legislature of this Province, relative to the District of Saint Francis. | 1 Victoria Chapter 13 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Act continues several Acts pertaining to the justice system in the Inferior District of Saint-François, as listed, which are to remain in force until 1842. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to make provision for defraying the Civil Expenditure of the Provincial Government from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, to the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. | 1 Victoria Chapter 12 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Ordinance provides a sum not exceeding forty-seven thousand, three hundred and forty-four pounds, fourteen shillings and seven pence to defray expenses incurred by the Civil Government from 1837-1838. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance authorizing the repayment out of the moneys in the hands of the Receiver General of this Province, of certain sums advanced from the Imperial Treasury. | 1 Victoria Chapter 11 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Ordinance authorises the repayment of the sums advanced from the one hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and sixty pounds fourteen shillings and six-pence granted from the Treasury during the 1837-38 Rebellion, and the processes by which the sums advanced should be accounted for. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance for indemnifying persons who since the first day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Seven, have acted in apprehending, imprisoning, or detaining in Custody, persons suspected of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices, and in the Suppression of unlawful Assemblies, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 1 Victoria Chapter 10 (Session 1) | 1838 | Under this Ordinance, all personal actions, suits, indictments, and prosecutions against persons who apprehended, committed, imprisoned, or detained rebels or persons for High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices are to be discharged or made void, under the terms and limits outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make temporary provision for the Government of Lower Canada. (10th February, 1838.) | 1 Victoria Chapter 9 (Session 1) | 1838 | Under this Act, the government of the Province of Lower Canada is to be handled by a Special Council rather than the Provincial Parliament as directed until November of 1840. The duties and limits of this Special Council are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue a certain Act therein mentioned, relating to Protested Bills of Exchange. | 1 Victoria Chapter 9 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Ordinance continues the 1833 Act, “An Act further to suspend certain parts of an Act or Ordinance therein mentioned, and to consolidate and further to continue for a limited time, the provisions of two other Acts therein mentioned, for more effectually ascertaining the damages on protested Bills of Exchange, and for determining disputes relating thereto, and for other purposes;” which is to remain in force until 1842. | Early Canadiana Online |