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 reviving and continuing for a limited time, and amending an Act passed in the forty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the better Regulation of the Militia of this Province, and for repealing certain Acts or Ordinances therein-mentioned.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 32 | 1817 | An act to revive a former act originally passed in 1803 and amended in 1812. The amended 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make good the deficiencies of the Funds by Law provided, for paying certain contingent expences of the House of Assembly. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 31 | 1817 | An Act to make good on the four thousand and eighty-two pounds, twelve shillings, and nine-pence one halfpenny advanced to cover the House of Assembly's expenses, which the 1793 Act “An Act to establish a fund for paying the salaries of the officers of the Legislative Council and Assembly, and for defraying the contingent expenses thereof,” was insufficient to cover. The funds are to be taken from any unappropriated funds in the hands of the Receiver-General. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal in part a clause of an Act or Ordinance made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled,“An Act to continue the Ordinances regulating the Practice of the Law, and to provide more effectually for the dispensation of Justice, and especially, in the new Districts.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 30 | 1817 | An Act to repeal, in part, an Act passed in 1789 “An Act to continue the Ordinances regulating the practice of the Law and to provide more effectually for the dispensation of justice, and especially in the new Districts." By this act, any three Justices of the Peace may judge cases of petty larceny that were previously set before the Court of King’s Bench or the sittings of Commissions of Oyer and Terminer. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act therein mentioned, passed in the thirty-ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, in-as-much as relates to the Salaries of the Surveyors of Highways, Streets, Lanes and Bridges in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal, respectively. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 29 | 1817 | An Act to amend a former act from 1799 “An Act to amend an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled ‘An Act for making, repairing, and altering the Highways and Bridges within this Province and for other purposes.’” Under this Act, Surveyors of highways, street, lanes end bridges in each of the cities and parishes of Quebec and Montreal is vested in the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the Government of the province. The surveyor's salaries are augmented by this Act by an additional sum not exceeding two hundred pounds. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering and amending an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the safe custody and registering of all Letters patent, whereby any grant of the waste or other Lands of the Crown, lying within this Province, shall hereafter be made.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 28 | 1817 | An Act to repeal parts of the 1796 Act "An Act for the safe custody and registering of all letters patent, whereby any grant of the waste or other lands of the Crown lying within this Province, shall hereafter be made," and amend how payments shall be received from the grantees of the letters patent. The cost of these letters will depend on the word count of each letter, as outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of the Students in Law, for the profession of Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor and Counsel, who served during the late War with the United States of America. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 27 | 1817 | An Act to provide for students of law who should have continued their clerkship following the end of the war or whose clerkship expired during the war. After a term of five years, these men are to be commissioned as a Barrister, Advocate, Solicitor, Attorney or Proctor at Law, upon undergoing an examination and obtaining a certificate of fit capacity and character. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to render more certain the Lines and Boundaries of Lands and for the establishing and erecting of Meridian Stones in different parts of this Province. (22 March 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 26 | 1817 | An Act to lay down meridian stones to establish clearer lines and boundaries. Within three years of the passing of this Act, these stones will be erected based on astronomical observations. These are to be laid at several seigniories, parishes, townships, and towns within the province which are named. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, an Act passed in the fifty-fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to establish Post-houses in the different parts of this Province.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 25 | 1817 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1814 which outlined where and how several Post Houses were to be erected within the province. Regulations on how mail isbe transported are outlined, as well as fines and penalties for those who offend against the act, were also established under this former Act. This Act is to expire in 1819. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, an Act passed in the fifty-fifth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to grant new duties to His Majesty, to supply the wants of the Province.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 24 | 1817 | An act to continue, for a limited time, an act originally passed in 1815. The original act imposed new duties on items including varies teas, wines, molasses, and syrups. The rates of these duties were also set. The act also specified 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. This act is to expire in 1819. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue for a limited time, two Acts therein mentioned, for the regulation of the Lumber Trade. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 23 | 1817 | An act to continue an act originally passed in 1808, and extended in 1811, 1813, and 1815 by the same name. The original act placed regulations on the export of certain types of lumber and made it lawful for the governor to appoint Master Cullers and Measurers of boards and planks, staves, timber, and masts and spars at the ports of Montreal and Quebec. Expectations and duties for these positions and standards for lumber being exported were outlined. The act is to expire in 1819. | Early Canadiana Online |