Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to provide additional aid in support of Common Schools in the several Districts of this Province. Royal Assent given by Message to the Legislature, 28th November, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 52 (Session 2) | 1836 | This act allots specific amounts to the various school districts of the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to provide, during a limited time, for the want of Notaries in the Inferior District of Gaspe. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 52 | 1836 | This Act revives a section of the 1824 Act, An Act to render valid certain Acts, agreements in writing and Contracts, of Marriage (Contrats de Manage sous seing prive) heretofore executed in the Inferior District of Gaspe, and to provide for the want of Notaries in the said Inferior District,” for certain purposes as described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the payment to the Treasurer of the District of Ottawa, of the Appropriation towards the Support of Common Schools in said District, for the years One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-five and One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-six. Royal Assent given by Message to the Legislature, 28th November, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 51 (Session 2) | 1836 | This act authorises the payment of a sum to support the schools of the Ottawa district despite a previous act which states that no sums can be paid out to school districts if the treasurer of that district neglects to render an account of expenditures to the legislature. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to incorporate the College of Chambly. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 51 | 1836 | This Act establishes "The Corporation of the College of Chambly" and outlines the organisation of the college, and provides that all property owned by the corporation must be applied towards the advancement of education. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of John Pearse, William Dumble, and William Hoar. The Royal Assent given by Message to the Legislature, 28th November, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 50 (Session 2) | 1836 | This act authorises the payment of seven hundred and sixty six pounds to John Pearse, William Dumble, and William Hoar, contractors who completed work on the inland navigation in Newcastle but were not paid in full by the commissioner in charge. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend certain privileges to the Class of persons denominating themselves, Methodist Protestants. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 50 | 1836 | Under this Act, the ministers of the Methodists recently having attended a conference in Dunham are authorised to keep in due form of Law, Registers of all such Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, under such rules and regulations outlined in the Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of John McMillan. Royal Assent given by Message to the Legislature, 28th November, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 49 (Session 2) | 1836 | This act provides an annual sum of twenty pounds to John McMillan, a former private of the Flank Company who has lately gone blind and who therefore cannot provide for himself | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of divers Societies of Protestant Christians therein mentioned. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 49 | 1836 | Under this Act, Pastors of the churches or societies denominating themselves “Members of Calvinist Baptist Societies,” "Members of Free-will Baptist Societies,” and “Members of Universalist Societies,” are authorised to solemnise marriages, enregister Births and Baptisms, and inter the dead, and to keep Registers authenticated in due form of law for that purpose. Restrictions and requirements of the pastors are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to allow Persons indicted for Felony a full Defence by Counsel, and for other purposes therein-mentioned. The Royal Assent promulgated by Proclamation, 29th September, 1836. | 6 William IV – Chapter 48 (Session 2) | 1836 | This act permits for all those accused of any felony to have the full defence of a lawyer as "their liberties, lives and characters may be lost and destroyed." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time a certain Act therein mentioned, concerning the Quebec Bank. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 48 | 1836 | Under this Act, the 1821 Act, “An Act to amend and continue for a limited time a certain Act passed in the first year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled, ‘An Act for the Incorporation of certain persons therein mentioned, under the name of the “Quebec Bank,”’” is to remain in force until 1837. | Early Canadiana Online |