Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to authorise the detention of Debtors in certain cases. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 2 | 1829 | Due to creditors losing money over the length of time it takes to process debtors through the court system, this act legislates specific time frames for processing debtors, with the caveat that nothing in this act should be construed as permission to skip any of the necessary forms and procedures. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Admission of the Evidence of Quakers, Menonists, Tunkers and Moravians, in Criminal Cases. Passed 20th March, 1829. | 10 George IV – Chapter 1 | 1829 | This act specifies an affirmation which religious sects who are uncomfortable taking an oath due to religious reasons can take in place of an oath for legal purposes. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for rendering valid conveyances of Lands and other immoveable Property held in free and common Soccage within the Province of Lower-Canada, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 9 George IV Chapter 77 | 1829 | This Act declares that all grants, bargains, sales, enfeoffments, alienations, gifts, exchanges, disposals, descents, devises, inheritance, right of dower or other conveyances of land or other immovable properties held in Free and Common Soccage in the Province are to be valid in Law. The processes by which these transfers of property can take place are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to the Religious Classes of Persons denominating themselves Wesleyan Methodists. |
9 George IV Chapter 76 | 1829 | This Act makes it lawful for Wesleyan Ministers to have and keep registers of marriages, baptisms, burials, and marriages, and gives further direction for how this should be done. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend certain Privileges therein mentioned to Persons professing the Jewish Religion and for the obviating certain inconveniences to which others of His Majesty’s Subjects might otherwise be exposed. | 9 George IV Chapter 75 | 1829 | This Act extends rights to Jewish British Subjects including provisions for the construction of Synagogues and burial grounds and gives further direction for how registers of births, marriages, and deaths should be kept. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for continuing the Provincial Parliament in case of the death or demise of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors. | 9 George IV Chapter 74 | 1829 | Under this Act, the Provincial Parliament is not be dissolved, (that is, to be allowed to continue to meet or to convene) in the event of the Sovereign’s death. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make a new and more convenient subdivision of the Province into Counties, for the purpose of effecting a more equal Representation thereof in the Assembly than heretofore. | 9 George IV Chapter 73 | 1829 | This Act redefines the boundaries of several counties in the Province of Lower Canada, for the purpose of electing Members to serve in the Assembly, as the boundaries defined in 1792 have become inconvenient as new settlements have formed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate annually a certain sum of Money therein-mentioned, to enable His Majesty to pay a Pension to Mr. Justice Bedard. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 72 | 1829 | This Act grants a sum of four hundred pounds, annually, as a pension to Pierre Bedard, who had to resign his position as Provincial Judge due to ill health. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of Money therein mentioned for making Experiments on the best mode of fixing the Shafts of Winter Carriages in order to prevent the formation of Cahots. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 71 | 1829 | This Act grants several sums of money to the Agricultural Societies of the Districts of Quebec, Montreal and Trois-Rivières so that they may support experiments for ascertaining the best mode of fixing shafts of winter carriages in order to prevent the formation of Cahots. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of Money towards defraying the expenses of the Civil Government, incurred during the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and also certain expenses of preceding years. (14th March, 1829.) |
9 George IV Chapter 70 | 1829 | This Act, a sum not exceeding nine thousand and thirty-one pounds, three shillings and six pence is to be supplied to defray the Civil Government’s expenses from 1828 not covered by the sums already allotted for that purpose. | Early Canadiana Online |