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 authorise the Surveyor General of this Province to receive the like sum for all original Schedules of New Townships furnished, or to be furnished since the first day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty, as he is authorised to receive by Law for such Schedules furnished before that period. Passed 17th January 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 16 | 1822 | This Act stipulates that the Surveyor General be paid twenty shillings for each schedule he produces of a new township. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish a Market in the Town of Perth in the County of Carleton. Passed 17th January 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 15 | 1822 | This Act allows for the establishment of a market in Perth, and places its administration in the hands of local Commissioners of the Peace. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish the division line between the Second and Third Concessions of the Township of Osnabruck, in the Eastern District. Passed 17th January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 14 | 1822 | This Act decrees that the survey line determined by Lewis Grant, Esquire, Deputy Provincial Surveyor, be considered the official boundary line "between the Second and Third Concessions of the Township of Osnabruck," thereby settling any disputes over said boundary. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, An Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of the Reign of His Majesty George the Third, intituled, “An Act to provide for the Police of certain Boroughs and Villages.” (18th February, 1822.) | 2 George IV Chapter 13 | 1822 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1818 “An Act to provide for the Police of certain Boroughs and Villages,” until 1824. The original Act to outlined several rules and regulations for villages and boroughs consisting of not less than thirty inhabited houses within the space of at least fifteen acres, including the the Borough of William Henry [Sorel-Tracy], largely pertaining to regulations on wood stoves, chimneys, and other fire risks. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act requiring the publication of the expenditure of monies raised under any Law, establishing a Police in any Town or Towns in this Province. Passed 17 January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 13 | 1822 | This Act stipulates that annual accounts of monies raised and spent to establish police forces in Upper Canada be made public, and that the annual accounts of existing police forces also be kept and made public. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain sum of money therein-mentioned for the relief of Insane Persons and for the support of Foundlings. (18th February, 1822.) | 2 George IV Chapter 12 | 1822 | An Act to apply sums to religious communities for the support of Foundlings, and towards the relief of Sick and Infirm persons in the districts of Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières. It is also made lawful for Commissioners to bind out foundlings as apprentices. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable persons who have preferred claims to or out of certain Forfeited Estates in this Province to withdraw the same. Passed 17th January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 12 | 1822 | This Act allows people who have made, or may in future make, claims regarding any of the "traitors'" or "aliens'" estates vested in the government, to change their minds and withdraw their claims, at which time the estate(s) in question would return to the Commissioner(s) of the government. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for further regulating the Measure and Weight of Coals. (18th February, 1822.) | 2 George IV Chapter 11 | 1822 | An Act to clarify how coal should be weighed arising out of disagreements on interpretations of “An Act for the better regulating the Weights and Measures of this Province,” passed in 1799. This Act is to expire in 1824. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal in part, a certain part of an Act passed in the forty- third year of His late Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act to extend theprovisions of an Act passed in the thirty fourth yearof His Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act to restrain the custom of permitting Horned Cattle, Horses, Sheepand Swine, to runat large. And further to enable the Magistrates in their respective Districts in this Province, in General Quarter Sessions assembled, to make such rules and regulations as may restrain swine running at large in the respective Towns in this Province, where a Police is or may hereafter be established by Law. Passed 17th January, 1822. | 2 George IV – Chapter 11 | 1822 | This Act repeals as "ineffectual and insufficient" the section of the earlier legislation cited in this Act's title, relating to swine. It also stipulates that magistrates in any town with a police force or which may in future establish a police force have the authority to create regulations around the "running at large" of swine in their respective jurisdictions. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Seigneurie of La Baie St. Antoine, commonly called La Baie du Febvre, to provide for the better regulation of the Common in the said Seigneurie. (18th February, 1822.) | 2 George IV Chapter 10 | 1822 | This Act outlines the process by which a Chair and Trustees are to be elected to govern the Common of the Seigneurie of La Baie as a body politic and corporate by the name “Chairman and Trustees of the Common of the Seigneurie of La Baie Saint Antoine, commonly called La Baie du Febvre.” The Act also outlines how the land is to be governed. This Act is to expire in 1843. | Early Canadiana Online |