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 for the Banishment of Persons convicted of certain Offences, and also to provide certain modes of Punishment in divers Criminal Cases. (12th June, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1834 | This act permits for the negotiation with masters of vessels leaving Newfoundland for the transport of prisoners condemned to banishment from the island. It also specifies what sort of work prisoners condemned to hard labour can be employed in doing. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the provisions of the “Act to establish Registry Offices in the Counties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shefford and Missisquoi,” to lands held in free and common soccage in the Counties of the Two Mountains and Acadie. (18th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 5 | 1834 | This Act extends the provisions of the 1830 Act, "An Act to establish Registry Offices in the Counties of Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Shefford and Missisquoi,” to the counties of Deux-Montagnes] and Acadie. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant further Relief to Bail in certain cases, and to regulate the manner of putting in and perfecting Bail in vacation. Passed, 6th March, 1834. | 4 William IV – Chapter 5 | 1834 | This act defines how bail shall be discharged once those who have been taken into custody have fulfilled their bail requirements. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, Sterling, to be appropriated and applied towards defraying any Expenses which may arise in the event of the introduction and spreading of Asiatic Cholera in this Colony. (20th September, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 4 (Session 2) | 1834 | This act sets aside five hundred pounds to pay for expenses caused by an outbreak of asiatic cholera in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Establishment of Light Houses. (12th June, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1834 | This act seeks to make five ports of Newfoundland safer by building lighthouses. Commissioners are appointed to oversee the building of the lighthouses, and their responsibilities are specified. The matter of funds for the building of these lighthouses is also addressed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the fourth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, chapter seventeen, and further to facilitate the prosecutions of actions in certain cases. (18th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 4 | 1834 | This Act amends the 1824 Act, "An Act to provide more effectual means than heretofore have been, to compel in the proper Jurisdiction, the appearance of Defendants, residing in different districts, who ought to be joined in the same cause." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Summary Punishment of Petty Trespasses and other offences. Passed, 6th March, 1834. | 4 William IV – Chapter 4 | 1834 | This act lays out the punishment for specific criminal acts, such as assault and trespass, for example. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Issue of Treasury Notes. (20th September, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1834 | This act calls for the appointment of three persons to be appointed by the governor in order to issue treasury notes in the stated amounts, and using the forms specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent dangerous quantities of Gunpowder being kept within the Town of Harbor Grace, and to provide for the safe storing of the same. (12th June, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1834 | This act limits the amount of gunpowder to be kept by any one person, ship, or in any warehouse in the town of Harbour Grace to 25 pounds, for public safety reasons. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to relieve the distress under which by reason of the failure of the late Crops, the Inhabitants of certain Parishes, would otherwise labour, by assisting the said Inhabitants to procure seed to sow their Lands. (18th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 3 | 1834 | This Act makes provision to provide poor farmers in the province with seeds, as required following the near total crop failure of the last year. This Act outlines several sums to be distributed in certain parishes in the province for this purpose. | Early Canadiana Online |