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 alter and amend an Act for enabling His Majesty to grant to a Company, to be Incorporated by Charter, to be called “ The Canada Company,” certain Lands in the Province of Upper Canada. 15th July, 1828. | 9 George IV – Chapter 51 | 1829 | An amendment to the incorporation of the Canada Company, further defining their permissions as an incorporated company as well as their responsibilities to the crown, to the legislature, and to their employees. This act was appended to the legislative acts of Upper Canada of 1829. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the advance of a certain sum of money therein mentioned to relieve certain Inhabitants of Lotbiniere from their sufferings through the failure of the last Harvest. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 50 | 1829 | Under this Act, a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds is to be applied to provide relief for the inhabitants of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière following a poor harvest. The processes by which these funds are to be distributed and how they should be used are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue, for a limited time, an Act passed in the third year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to erect certain Townships therein-mentioned, into an Inferior District, to be called the Inferior District of Saint Francis, and to establish Courts of Judicature therein.” (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 49 | 1829 | This Act continues the 1823 Act, “An Act to erect certain Townships therein-mentioned into an Inferior District to be called the Inferior District of Saint Francis, and to establish Courts of Judicature therein.” This Act is to remain in force until 1830. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of money therein mentioned for the Encouragement of Agriculture. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 48 | 1829 | Under this Act, a sum not exceeding one thousand six hundred pounds is to be applied for the encouragement of Agricultural Improvement in the province. The amounts to be distributed in each district and the manner this should be done are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive and amend an Act for the promotion of useful Arts in Province. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 47 | 1829 | This Act revives and amends an Act passed in 1824, “An Act to promote the progress of useful Arts in this Province.” This Act extends Patents to cover inventions or discoveries made by inhabitants of the Province abroad. This Act is to remain in force until 1831. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the encouragement of Elementary Education. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 46 | 1829 | Under this Act, several sums are put towards the establishment and support of Elementary Schools in the Province as outlined. Certain directions for appointing the Trustees for each school are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the Provisions of two Acts therein mentioned for the benefit of the Company of Proprietors of the Montreal Library. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 45 | 1829 | This Act extends the provisions of the 1819 Act “An Act to appropriate a certain Lot of Ground in the City of Montreal for the Site of a Public Library, and to incorporate certain Persons therein-mentioned,” and extends the term allowed for the Company of Proprietors of the Montreal Library to erect a library as provided for by an Act passed in 1824, “An Act to extend the provisions of an Act therein-mentioned, passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Chapter twenty-second, in favor of the Proprietors of the Montreal Library.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the advance of a certain sum of money to the Natural History Society of Montreal. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 44 | 1829 | An act to advance a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds to the Natural History Society of Montreal to be used in the prosecution of their research. Under this Act, the museum of library of the Society are to remain open to the public. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to further amend an Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty, George the Third, intituled, “An Act to establish a House of Industry, in the City of Montreal.” (14th March, 1829.) |
9 George IV Chapter 43 | 1829 | This Act amends several measures set out in the 1818 Act “An Act to establish a House of Industry, in the City of Montreal,” as pertain to the number and appointment of Wardens composing the Corporation of the “Wardens of the House of Industry in the City of Montreal.” The Act repeals a former Act from 1822 that amended the same 1818 Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relating to the Fisheries in the County of Gaspé. (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 42 | 1829 | Under this Act, all main channels or waterways are to be left open to allow salmon to reach their spawning places. This Act outlaws the use of fishing weirs, or other fishing tackle including among Indigenous peoples. Several measures are put in place, including regulations on the shipment of fish, in order to preserve the fishing industry. This Act is to remain in force until 1833. | Early Canadiana Online |