Legislation by Province: Lower Canada (1792-1841)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act for appointing Commissioners to treat with Commissioners appointed or to be appointed on the part of the Province of Upper-Canada, for the purposes therein-mentioned. (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 9 | 1821 | This Act appoints Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, and Austin Cuvillier, John Davidson, John Neilson and George Garden, Esquires as commissioners to represent Lower Canada and who are empowered to meet, treat, and consult with commissioners from Upper-Canada regarding trade regulations and duties between the provinces. This Act is to expire in 1823. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal and amend certain parts of an Act passed in the thirty-fourth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the Division of the Province of Lower-Canada, for amending the Judicature thereof, and for repealing certain Laws therein-mentioned.” (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 8 | 1821 | An Act to repeal certain articles from an Act from 1793 that divided Lower Canada into three districts and established a court of King's Bench in each. This Act repeals and replaces the terms by which any Writ of Habeas shall be made returnable. Under this Act, the powers and authority granted to Chief Justices under the original Act may also be excercied by Puisné Justices and Provincial Judges. |
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| An Act to encourage the practice of Vaccine Inoculation and to appropriate a certain sum of money for that purpose. (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 7 | 1821 | An Act to apply the sum of fifteen hundred pounds through the province to defray the expenses necessary to fight against the extension of smallpox and to diffuse the practice of vaccine inoculation. The distribution of these funds between the districts of Quebec, Montrèal, Trois-Rivières, and Gaspé is described. The Act outlines how “The Board to provide against the extension of the Small-pox, to promote Vaccine Inoculation” is to be appointed and their responsibilities. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making a Navigable Canal, from the neighbourhood of Montreal to the Parish of Lachine, and to appropriate a certain sum of money for that purpose, and to repeal a certain Act therein-mentioned. (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 6 | 1821 | An Act to allow for the construction and to outline the maintenance of a Canal from Montreal to Lachine in the event that the Company of Proprietors authorised to do so under a 1819 Act, "An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the neighbourhood of the City of Montreal to the Parish of Lachine, in the Island and County of Montreal" fail to fulfill the terms of that Act. The terms by which the Canal's construction is to be completed, and the funds to be appropriated for that cause are described. The Act also repeals an Act from 1815, “An Act to grant an aid to His Majesty, to assist in opening a Canal from the neighbourhood of Montreal to Lachine, and further to provide for facilitating the same.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An act further to encourage Agriculture in this Province. (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 5 | 1821 | An Act to grant a sum further than the two thousand pounds granted by a former Act in 1818 to Agricultural societies and for the creation of new Auxiliary Agricultural Societies within the province. Allowances for the districts of Quebec, Trois-Rivières, and Montreal, and Inferior District of Gaspé are described, as well as how the money is to be used. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, three Acts therein-mentioned, for better regulating the Militia of this Province. (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 4 | 1821 | An act to continue a former act originally passed in 1803 “An Act for the better regulation of the Militia of this Province, and for repealing certain Acts or Ordinances therein mentioned,” which was amended in 1819. The act declares that all men between the ages of eighteen and fifty are to be militia men, bound to serve in their division's militia.The act also outlines who is to be excepted from this law, how order is to be maintained, and how these men are to be enrolled and trained. This act makes it lawful for men drawn for service to present a substitute in their stead. These acts are to continue in force until 1823. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue for a limited time an Act passed in the fifty-seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty George the Third, intituled, “An Act to facilitate the administration of Justice in certain small matters therein-mentioned, in the Country Parishes.” (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 3 | 1821 | An Act to continue a former act by the same name passed in 1817 and continued in 1821. The 1817 Act granted the authority for Justices of the Peace to administer cases in country parishes pertaining to fences or ditches on property lines and damage to livestock. Processes by which these cases are to be heard were outlined in this former Act. This Act is set to expire in 1823. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the summary Trial of certain small causes in the Country Parishes of this Province. (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 2 | 1821 | An Act outlining how trials concerning the recovery of certain debts are to run in the province's counties and parishes, excepting the Counties of Quebec and Montreal, and the Town and Parish of Trois-Rivières. The Act describes how summons shall be served, several stipulations on where court can be held, and the duties of commissioners who are to be appointed by this Act. Forms of summons, warrant of execution, and subpoena are included. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels, and other places used for Public Worship, and for repealing an Act therein mentioned. (17th March, 1821.) | 1 George IV Chapter 1 | 1821 | An Act to repeal and replace an Act passed in 1817, "An Act to provide for the maintenance of good order on Sundays and Holidays." The Act redefines the responsibilities of Churchwardens to maintain good order and the penalties those who neglect these duties will be responsible for. Militiamen and Peace Officers are required to arrest anyone found loitering in public houses during the Divine Service. Further penalties for those who offend this act are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, “An Act for better regulating the Weight and Rates at which certain Coins shall pass current in this Province, for preventing the falsifying, counterfeiting and impairing of the same, and for repealing the Act and Ordinance therein-mentioned. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George Chapter 1 | 1819 | An act to amend an act passed in 1818, outlining the relative value of French coins that are made legal tender in Lower Canada. Penalties for counterfeiting currency are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |