Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Ordinance to amend the Law relative to the granting of Licences to keep houses of public entertainment, and to enable the Magistrates resident in the City of Montreal, to hold another special session for granting certificates, on which such Licences may be granted during the present year. | 4 Victoria Chapter 28 (Session 6) | 1841 | Under this Ordinance, magistrates in the City of Montreal are empowered to grant more licences for keeping houses of public entertainment as he sees fit under the terms outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to authorize and enable the Corporation of the City of Montreal, to erect a Public Edifice in the said City, for certain purposes. | 4 Victoria Chapter 27 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance provides for the erection of a public edifice to house the city call, merchants exchange, Trinity House, post office, and meeting spaces, as well as a library and museum, as detailed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to facilitate the Dispatch of the Business now before the Court of King’s Bench for the District of Montreal. | 4 Victoria Chapter 26 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance makes provision for the appointment of a Commissioner of the Inferior Term of the Court of King’s Bench for the District of Montreal who is to sit and act as judge in certain cases. The salary and powers vested in the Commissioner are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to authorize the re-payment of a certain sum therein mentioned, advanced out of the Military Chest, for certain Provincial purposes. | 4 Victoria Chapter 25 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance provides a sum not exceeding eight hundred and forty-nine pounds to repay the sum advanced to pay for furniture for the Government Houses in the Province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to authorize the transfer of the property of the Old Gaol in the City of Montreal, to the principal Officers of Her Majesty’s Ordnance. | 4 Victoria Chapter 24 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance makes provision for the evaluation and transfer of the property of the lot provided for the construction of a jail in Montreal under the 1805 Act, “An Act to provide for the erecting of a Common Gaol in each of the Districts of Quebec and Montreal respectively, and the means for defraying the expenses thereof.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to extend the provisions of a certain Ordinance concerning the erection of Parishes for civil purposes to Parishes canonically erected before the passing of the said Ordinance. | 4 Victoria Chapter 23 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance extends the 1839 Ordinance, “An Ordinance concerning the erection of Parishes, and the building of Churches, parsonage houses and church yards,” to parishes erected since the passing of that Ordinance. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide for the improvement of a certain part of the Road from the City of Montreal, to the Cote St. Michel, in the Parish of Sault au Recollet. | 4 Victoria Chapter 22 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance provides that the road from Montreal to Côte Saint-Michel is to be macademaized and improved as described. “The St. Michel Road Company,” is established to carry out the terms of this Ordinance and to maintain the road. Tolls to be charged on the road are listed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to declare and regulate the tolls to be taken on the Bridge over Cap Rouge River; and for other purposes relative to the said Bridge. | 4 Victoria Chapter 21 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance allows tolls to be collected on the bridge crossing la rivière du Cap Rouge and lists the allowable sums to be collected, and who is to be excepted from paying the toll. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide for the erection and establishment of Court Houses and Gaols, in certain Judicial Districts in this Province. | 4 Victoria Chapter 20 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance makes provision for the erection of court houses and jails in districts where the District Court is to be held but no court house or jail currently exists. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to amend two certain Ordinances therein-mentioned, relative to the administration of justice in this Province, and to make other and further provision on the same subject. | 4 Victoria Chapter 19 (Session 6) | 1841 | This Ordinance amends the 1840 Ordinance passed earlier in this Session, "An Ordinance to amend a certain Ordinance of the Legislature of this Province, made and passed in the fourth year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled, 'An Ordinance to establish new Territorial Divisions of Lower Canada, and to alter and amend the Judicature, and provide for the better and more efficient administration of Justice throughout this Province;' and also a certain other Ordinance of the same Legislature, made and passed in the same year, intituled, 'An Ordinance to provide for the more easy and expeditious administration of Justice, in civil causes and matters involving small pecuniary value and interest, throughout this Province.'" | Early Canadiana Online |