| An Act to Continue and Amend an Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Continue the Laws now in force for granting an additional Duty on Shop Licences,” and to require Persons selling Spirituous Liquors’ by Whole Sale to take out a Licence for that purpose. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 19 |
1824 |
The continuation of an act first passed in 1818 pertaining the acquiring of licenses by shop keepers and the duties imposed on these shop licenses, with amendments and additions of clauses pertaining to the selling of liquor. |
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| An Act to Repeal part of, Continue, and Amend the Laws now in force imposing a Duty on Licences to Innkeepers within this Province. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 18 |
1824 |
This act continues certain clauses and repeals other clauses of an act first passed in 1822 which imposes a duty on the licenses required for Innkeepers to operate within the province. |
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| An Act to incorporate certain persons therein mentioned under the style and title of “The Welland, Canal Company.” Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 17 |
1824 |
This act incorporates the Welland Canal Company, empowering them to sell and trade their stocks, explore and survey the area between the Welland river and Lake Ontario in order to construct a canal between the two, and to use any brooks, streams, or any other watercourses in order to supply the canal with water. It also permits the company various levels of use over both private and public land. |
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| An Act to Amend and Extend the Provisions of an Act passed at the last Session of Parliament, entitled, “An Act to Provide for Constructing a Navigable Canal between Burlington Bay and Lake Ontario.” Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 16 |
1824 |
This act provides for the building of a canal between Burlington Bay and Lake Ontario, to be paid for by the payment of a toll by those who navigate said canal. |
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| An Act to Continue for a limited time an Act passed in the Second Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to make Provision for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of this Province, as amended by an Act passed in the Third Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, ‘An Act to Amend and Extend the Provisions of an Act passed in the Second Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, ‘An Act to make Provision for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of this Province, (except so much thereof as is thereby repealed,) and to grant a further sum of money for such Improvement.’ ” Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 15 |
1824 |
This act continues an act passed in 1822 which made plans to survey the potential routes for a canal system running from Lake Erie to the eastern border of Upper Canada. It grants a further sum of one thousand pounds, and calls for a survey to be done in Presqu'ile Harbour and at the head of the bay of Quinte in order to connect the two by a navigable canal. |
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| An Act to Repeal an Act passed in the Forty-Fourth Fear of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Promulgate the Provincial Statutes, and also to Repeal so much of an Act passed in the Forty-First Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty as relates to Printing the Journals;” and to provide more adequate Remuneration for Printing Annually the Statutes of this Province. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 14 |
1824 |
This act repeals an act passed in 1804 and passes a new clause which stipulates that the printer of the journals of the Legislative Assembly will forward the bill and be reimbursed the costs, rather than being allotted a pre-determined budget. |
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| An Act to Prohibit Banks from Carrying on Business in this Province, that do not return their Notes in Specie within the same. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 13 |
1824 |
This act prohibits banks or anybody acting on behalf of banks who do not use the provincial currency from operating within the province. |
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| An Act to Compensate the Services of the Commissioners of Customs. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 12 |
1824 |
An act providing for the payment of ten shillings per day of collection to the commissioners of customs by the Inspector General of the province. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Repeal an Act passed in the forty-first year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for Granting to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to and for the uses of this Province the like Duties on Goods and Merchandize brought into this Province from the United States of America, as are now paid on Goods and Merchandize imported from Great Britain, and other places;” and also an Act passed in the forty-third year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Explain and Amend an Act passed in the forty first year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, ‘An Act for granting to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to and for the uses of this Province, the like Duties on Goods and Merchandize brought into this Province from the United States of America, as are now paid on Goods and Merchandize imported from Great Britain and other places,’ and to Provide more effectually for the Collection and Payment of Duties on Goods and Merchandize coming from the United States of America into this Province; and also to Establish a Fund for the Erection and Repairing of Light-houses,” and to make more effectual Provision for the due Collection of Duties on Goods Imported into this Province. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 11 |
1824 |
This act repeals and amend several past acts regarding the collection of duties on goods brought in from the United States and Great Britain. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Repeal part of and Amend an Act passed in the fiftieth year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entituled, “An Act to Provide for the Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair, the Public Highways and Roads in this Province, and to Repeal the Laws now in force for that purpose;” and also to Repeal part of and Amend the Provisions of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Repeal part of, and Amend the Laws now in force for Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair the Public Highways and Roads, in this Province.” Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. |
4 George IV – Chapter 10 |
1824 |
An amendment to an act passed in 1810 regarding rules and regulations concerning the laying out and maintenance of public roads. |
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