Legislation by Province: Upper Canada (1792-1840)

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Title Chapter Date Passed Legislative Summary Source Document
An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to prevent the consumption of Spirituous Liquors in Shops.” Passed 11th May, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 26 1839 This act continues and makes permanent an act first passed in 1834, which specifies that shopkeepers who are licensed to sell alcohol are not licensed to allow the consumption of said alcoholic beverages on their premises. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to revive and continue, with certain modifications, an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘ An Act to alter the Laws now in force for granting Licenses to Innkeepers, and to give to the Justices of the Peace in General Quarter Sessions assembled, for their respective Districts, authority to regulate the Duties hereafter to be paid on such Licenses.” Passed 11th May, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 25 1839 This act continues and makes permanent an act first passed in 1830, which consolidated and continued previous acts concerning the licensing of innkeepers. It includes specifications regarding the granting of licenses to innkeepers, and stipulates that revenue raised through the sale of such licenses be used to upgrade roads and bridges. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled “An Act to revive and continue an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled “An Act prescribing the mode of measuring the contents of Wooden Stills, also, for fixing the rate of Duty to be paid on all Stills used for the Distillation of Spirituous Liquors within this Province.” Passed May 11th, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 24 1839 This act continues and makes permanent an act first passed in 1834, which details the rules for measuring, distilling, and taxing alcohol. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the third year of the reign of King William the Fourth, entitled “An Act to continue the duty upon Licenses to Hawkers and Pedlars.” Passed May 11th, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 23 1839 This act continues and makes permanent an act first passed in 1809, and continued and amended since, which places various rates of duty on the licenses required for hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to amend an Act passed in the seventh year of the, reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled “An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money, for the erection of certain Light Houses within this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned.” Passed May 11th, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 22 1839 This act places a duty of one shilling per ton on vessels in order to help pay the interest on a loan made by the crown to help build lighthouses in the province. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue and make perpetual an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of King William the Fourth, entitled “An Act to promote the public health, and to guard against infectious diseases in this Province.” Passed 11th May, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 21 1839 This act continues and makes perpetual an act first passed in 1835, which permitted the appointment of three or more health officers in every town of the province. It specifies what they are empowered to do as health officers as well as the penalties for those who disobey the appointed health officers. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to revive, and continue for a limited time, the Second Clause of an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to secure to and confer upon certain Inhabitants of this Province the civil and political rights of natural born British Subjects.” Passed 11th May, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 20 1839 This act continues an act passed in 1835, which allows for specific individuals to be granted the rights of natural born citizens in order to validate their real estate claims. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to limit the period for owners of lands making claims for damages already occasioned by the construction of the Rideau Canal and for other purposes therein mentioned. Passed 11th May, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 19 1839 This act limits the time in which property owners can claim damages from the building of the Rideau Canal. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to regulate Line Fences and Water-courses, and to repeal so much of an Act passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, ‘An Act to provide for the nomination and appointment of Parish and Town Officers within this Province, as relates to the office of Fence Viewers being discharged by Overseers of Highways and Roads.” Passed 11th May, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 18 1839 This act continues an act first passed in 1834, which amended an act passed in 1793. The original act specified the parties responsible for the repairing and maintenance of fences on shared property lines, and the amendments have further defined who is responsible for which costs and who is responsible for settling disputes. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, “An Act to repeal an Ordinance of the Province of Quebec, passed in the twenty-fifth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Ordinance concerning Land Surveyors, and the admeasurement of Lands”; and also to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the thirty-eighth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to ascertain and establish on a permanent footing the Boundary Lines of the different Townships in this Province, and further to regulate the manner in which Lands are hereafter to be Surveyed.” Passed 11th May, 1839. 2 Victoria – Chapter 17 1839 This act continues and amends two separate acts regarding the surveying of land to better settle disputes arising from past surveys of town lots. Early Canadiana Online