Legislation by Province: Upper Canada (1792-1840)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to Incorporate sundry persons under the style and title of the Gananoque and Wiltsie Navigation Company. Passed, 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 8 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Gananoque and Wiltsie Navigation Companie. It enables them to acquire land in order to build dykes, locks and channels, and other structures to enable navigation, defines how shares are to be sold, as well as determining how share ownership will affect company directorship, and stipulates various regulations for the company to follow concerning maintenance and access for trade. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate a Company to construct a Rail Road from Burlington Bay, to Lake Huron. Passed, 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 7 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates a company to build a railroad from Burlington Bay in the district of Gore to Lake Huron after petitions from residents. The company is empowered to survey land to determine where best to lay this railroad and acquire this land. Directors and their responsibilities are specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons therein-mentioned under the name and style of the Niagara and Detroit Rivers Rail Road Company. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 6 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Niagara and Detroit Rivers Railroad company, enabling it to explore, purchase and acquire land in order to build a railroad between the town of Bertie, in Niagara, and Sandwich, on the Detroit river. The directors are named and their responsibilities specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Rail Road Company. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act incorporates the Toronto and Lake Huron Rail Road company, giving them the right to survey and purchase lands and determine where best to lay a railroad between the city of Toronto and Lake Huron. It names the directors of the company and outlines their responsibilities to stockholders, as well as specifying the powers which stockholders will hold within the company. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal and amend certain parts of an Act passed in the Thirty-sixth year of the Reign of King George the Third, entitled, “An Act to amend an Act for regulating the manner of Licensing Public Houses, and for the more easy conviction of Persons selling Spirituous Liquors without License, and for other purposes therein mentioned.” Passed, 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act repeals and amends various acts passed in prior years relating to the sale of alcohol in bars and taverns. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent Bodies Corporate, within this Province, from entering upon, and taking possession of the Lands of the Crown, without permission from His Majesty. Passed 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act prevents any body corporate from building railroads, canals, or any other structure upon public lands without His Majesty's assent. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend and extend the provisions of an Act passed during the last Session of the Provincial Legislature, entitled “An Act to reduce to one Act of Parliament the several Laws relative to the appointment and duties of Township Officers in this Province, except an Act passed in the fourth year of the Reign of William the Fourth, Chapter Twelve, 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 20th April, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act is a continuation and amendment of an act passed in 1835, which consolidated several past laws relating to the duties and responsibilities of township officers to a single act. Amendments include compensation to be rendered to town clerks for rendering services, and highway work due from male inhabitants. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the payment of Wages to Members Representing Cities and Incorporate Towns within the Province. Passed 7th March, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 1 (Session 1) | 1836 | This act sets aside sums of money for the salaries of members representing cities and towns. It specifies what these salaries will be, and how these salaries will be paid for. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the time of holding the next Election in the County of Leeds. Passed 24th February, 1835. (Expired.) | 5 William IV – Chapter 46 | 1835 | This act makes it legal for the county of Leeds to hold an election for a new member to represent them in the house of assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to form certain Townships in the London District into a County, and to attach certain Townships to the Counties of Middlesex and Kent, in the London and Western Districts. The Royal Assent to this Bill promulgated by Proclamation bearing date fifth day of May, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 45 | 1835 | This act creates the townships of Adelaide in Middlesex county, and Moore, Sarnia, Plympton, Enniskillen, Warwick, Brooke, and Bosanquet, in Kent county. | Early Canadiana Online |