Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Ordinance to authorise the Trial in any District of this Province, of persons charged with certain crimes and offences. | 2 Victoria Chapter 11 (Session 3) | 1838 | This Ordinance makes provision for the trial of persons charged with High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, Treasonable Practices, Sedition, Arson, or Murder. This Ordinance is to remain in force until 1842. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Granting to Her Majesty a Sum of Money to defray the contingent expenses of the Legislature during the present and last Sessions. (Passed 25th October, 1838.) | 2 Victoria - Chapter 11 | 1838 | This act grants various sums of money to pay individuals who served the legislative assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to confirm certain Ordinances of the Governor of this Province, and of the Special Council for the affairs thereof, and to declare the period at which they respectively commenced and took effect. | 2 Victoria Chapter 10 (Session 3) | 1838 | This Ordinance confirms that several ordinances, as listed, took effect on the day they were passed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Granting to Her Majesty a Sum of Money for defraying the Expenses of the Civil Government of this Colony, and for other purposes, for the year ending the Thirtieth day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-nine. (Passed 25th October, 1838.) | 2 Victoria - Chapter 10 | 1838 | This act grants various sums of money to individuals who serve the province in the year 1839. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to extend the provisions of certain Ordinances therein mentioned, to the District of Saint Francis, in the Province of Lower Canada. | 2 Victoria Chapter 9 (Session 3) | 1838 | This Ordinance extends the provisions of multiple 1838 ordinances to the District of Saint-François, including “An Ordinance to declare and define the period when the Rebellion, now unhappily existing in this Province, shall be taken and held to cease, and for other purposes," “An Ordinance for the Attainder of persons against whom sentences or judgments of Courts Martial shall be given, under and by virture of an Ordinance passed in the second year of Her Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Ordinance for the suppression of the Rebellion which now unhappily exists within this Province of Lower Canada, and for the protection of the persons and properties of Her Majesty’s faithful subjects within the same;’” and “An Ordinance to declare and define the period when the Rebellion, now unhappily existing in this Province.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act declaratory of the Value of the Dollar in this Colony, and to remove all doubts of the same being a Legal Tender in certain cases, (Passed 25th October, 1838.) | 2 Victoria - Chapter 9 | 1838 | This act secures the value of the provincial dollar in various international currency. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance for more effectually preventing the administering or taking of unlawful oaths, and for better preventing Treasonable and Seditious Practices. | 2 Victoria Chapter 8 (Session 3) | 1838 | Under this Ordinance, any person found to administer or intend to administer an oath intending to bind someone to commit treason or murder, or several other offences listed, shall be adjudged guilty of felony and transported for a term not exceeding 7 years. Limits and exceptions to this Ordinance are outlined, as well as instructions for how it should be enforced. This Ordinance is to remain in force until 1842. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to further amend an Act entituled “An Act to regulate the Packing and Inspection of Pickled Fish for exportation from this Island.” (Passed 25th October, 1838.) | 2 Victoria - Chapter 8 | 1838 | This act makes amendments to an act first passed in 1834, which established standards to be met by pickled fish set for export for Newfoundland. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance for the Attainder of persons against whom sentences or judgments of Courts Martial shall be given, under and by virtue of an Ordinance passed in the second year of Her Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Ordinance for the suppression of the Rebellion which unhappily exists within this Province of Lower Canada, and for the protection of the persons and properties of Her Majesty’s faithful subjects within the same,” and of another Ordinance passed in the said second year of Her Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Ordinance to declare and define the period when the Rebellion, now unhappily existing in this Province, shall be taken and held to cease, and for other purposes.” | 2 Victoria Chapter 7 (Session 3) | 1838 | This Ordinance clarifies that the goods, chattels, and other property of people sentences to death under the ordinances therein named remain forfeited to the Queen. The processes by which claims on this property can be made are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to preserve the Harbors and Roadsteads of Newfoundland and its Dependencies from Nuisances and Obstructions. (Passed 25th October, 1838.) | 2 Victoria - Chapter 7 | 1838 | This act prevents the dumping of ballast or other debris in harbours or roadways as they pose obstacles to transportation and commerce, and specifies penalties for those who violate this law. | Early Canadiana Online |