Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to appropriate certain sums of money towards the support of insane Persons and Foundlings and other destitute persons in the District of Three Rivers. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 59 | 1829 | This Act provides several sums of money towards the support of foundlings and the mentally ill in the district of Trois-Rivières. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to incorporate certain persons. therein-named, under the name of the "Quebec Fire Assurance Company.” (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 58 | 1829 | This Act lists the individuals that compose the ““The Quebec Fire Assurance Company,” that offers insurance against losses by fire. Under this Act, amendments are made to the company’s rates of premium, shares of the Capital Stock, and the company is allowed to invest in real estate. The company is to continue and have succession until 1868 unless otherwise authorised or repealed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to suspend, for a limited time, certain Ordinances therein-mentioned, as far as the same relate to the City of Montreal, and to establish a Society therein for preventing Accidents by Fire. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 57 | 1829 | This Act repeals and replaces two ordinances meant to prevent fires as they apply to Montreal. This Act establishes the Fire Society and defines the duties, appointment, and exceptions made for its members and chairman. The processes by which funds to support the fire society are to be raised are also described. This Act is to remain in force until 1834. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal and amend part of an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the safe custody and registering of all Letters Patent, whereby any grant of the Waste or other Lands of the Crown, lying within this Province, shall hereafter be made.” (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 56 | 1829 | This Act repeals the second section of the 1796 Act, “An Act for the safe custody and registering of all Letters Patent, whereby any grant of the Waste or other lands of the crown lying within this Province shall hereafter be made.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to provide for a limited time for the want of Notaries in the County of Gaspe. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 55 | 1829 | This Act continues a clause in the 1824 Act, “An Act to render valid certain Acts Agreements in Writing and Contracts of Marriage (Contrats de Marriage sous seing prive”) heretofore executed in the Inferior District of Gaspe, and to provide for the want of Notaries in the said District,” until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further provision for the relief of the Indigent Sick, and for the support of Foundlings and others, and to reimburse certain sums of Money advanced for such purposes. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 54 | 1829 | This Act lists several sums of money that are to be applied to several hospitals and religious groups to provide for foundlings and the indigent sick, as described. Restrictions on and directions for how this money should be used are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further provision for the relief of the Indigent Sick, and for the support of Foundlings and others, and to reimburse certain sums of Money advanced for such purposes. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 54 | 1829 | This Act lists several sums of money that are to be applied to several hospitals and religious groups to provide for foundlings and the indigent sick, as described. Restrictions on and directions for how this money should be used are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish a New Market Place in Saint Paul’s Street, in the Lower Town of Quebec, and to authorize the advance of a certain Sum of money to the Trustees of the said Market. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 53 | 1829 | An Act to authorise the construction of a new public marketplace and wharf in Quebec, on Saint Paul Street, between Ramsay Street and Saint Roch Street. Processes for the construction of the market stalls and weigh house are outlined, as well as penalties for those who offend against the Act’s terms. Five persons residing in Quebec are to be appointed as trustees for the market who are to oversee its construction. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act towards encouraging the Fisheries. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 52 | 1829 | Under this Act, dernier equippeurs who provide the necessary outfits and supplies for fishing voyages in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the coast of Labrador, Strait of Belle Isle, or Banks of Newfoundland are to be granted a privilege and be paid out of the returns of voyages. This Act is to remain in force until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the preservation of the Salmon Fisheries in the Counties of Cornwallis and Northumberland. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 51 | 1829 | This Act restricts fishing in the places described to preserve the salmon fisheries in the Counties of Cornwallis and Northumberland. Under this Act, Indigenous peoples are not permitted to fish for salmon except for their own families’ use. The Act outlines penalties to be applied when its terms are broken. This Act is to remain in force until 1831. | Early Canadiana Online |