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 Incorporate certain Persons therein named, under the style and title of the “Port Hope Harbour and Wharf Company.” Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 12 | 1829 | This act incorporates the Port Hope Harbour and Wharf Company, and empowers them to build a harbour and any related infrastructure such as wharves, buildings, or anything else that serves to help in navigation or protection of the harbour. The company is also empowered to toll vessels coming into the harbour, and the legislation specifies how much certain items coming into harbour are to be tolled. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Improve the Navigation of Lake Ontario, by authorising the construction of a Harbour at Cobourg, by a Joint Stock Company. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 11 | 1829 | This act incorporates the Cobourg Habour Company and empowers them to build a harbour at Cobourg to facilitate navigation. It also permits the company to collect tolls from incoming vessels once the harbour is constructed, specifying what tolls shall be collected on what goods. Management of stocks by shareholders is also specified in this legislation. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relative to Confiscated Estates. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 10 | 1829 | This act makes legal and financial provisions for owners of properties which have been erroneously seized or sold. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to render effectual certain Securities to be given by the Welland Canal Company, for a Loan advanced by His Majesty’s Government, and for other purposes relating to the said Canal: and also, for authorizing the making a lateral Cut from the Welland Canal, through the Town of Niagara to the mouth of the River Niagara, by a Company incorporated for that purpose. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 9 | 1829 | This act provides further loans for the Welland Canal Company for the purpose of completing their canal project, along with specifying terms by which they can hire workers, and the size of the structures which they can build on waterways. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make valid under certain restrictions the Registry of Deeds and Conveyances, made by the Registrar of the County of Northumberland, under an appointment adjudged to be invalid. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 8 | 1829 | This act forces a certain Thomas Ward to surrender all registries and memorials associated to his former position as registrar of the county of Northumberland. After having been appointed registrar, his appointment was invalidated, but he refused to surrender the deeds and conveyances in his possession. This act gives him two months to surrender said deeds and conveyances, stating that all land transfers made before the appointment of Thomas Ward was voided shall be treated as valid. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make more effectual provision for settling the affairs of the late pretended Bank of Upper Canada. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 7 | 1829 | This act legislates certain provisions and securities to be made in order to settle the business of the Bank of Upper Canada, which has failed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter the time of holding the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the Ottawa District. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 6 | 1829 | This act changes the times at which the court of general quarter sessions of the peace will be held for the district of Ottawa to the third Tuesday of the months of January, April, June, and September. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act passed in the forty-fourth year of George the Third, entitled, “An Act for the better securing this Province against all seditious attempts or designs to disturb the tranquility thereof.” Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 5 | 1829 | The repeal of an act first passed in 1804 which allowed This act allows senior magistrates to arrest persons not having lived in Upper Canada for at least six months. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to afford greater facility in procuring testimony upon claims to Lands in this Province, by the Heirs or Devisees of the original nominees of the Crown, or their Assignees. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 4 | 1829 | This act enables all commissioners of the court of the king's bench in the province to hear matters relating to the relief of persons who may be entitled to inherit land where no patents exist, since the prior arrangements allowing one commissioner per district has not been sufficient to meet the demand of claimants. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act, the better to protect the Mississaga [Mississauga] Tribes living on the Indian Reserve of the River Credit, in their exclusive right of Fishing and Hunting therein. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 3 | 1829 | This act acknowledges the area currently known as Etobicoke and Mississauga as land belonging to the Mississauga tribe, and is to be their acknowledged fishing and hunting ground. After lodging a complaint concerning a depletion of their resources caused by unlawful settler fishing and hunting, the legislature enacts a law threatening three days of jail to anyone caught unlawfully hunting or fishing on Mississauga land. The act is not permanent; it is in place for four years. | Early Canadiana Online |