Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act relating to Marriages, and the issuing of Marriage Licenses. | 59 George III – Chapter 16 | 1819 | This act clarifies marriage law, allowing the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander in Chief to issue marriage licenses to anybody within the province no matter their religious persuasion, rather than requiring them to conform to the book of common prayer. The form of the marriage license is specified within the act, and clarifies that marriages still need to be solemnized by approved clergymen. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, two several Acts therein-mentioned, providing Temporary Houses of Correction in the several Districts of this Province, and for other purposes. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 15 | 1819 | An Act to further continue a former Act from 1817 and amended in 1818 that provided temporary Houses of Correction in several districts, including the District of Quebec, District of Montreal, and District of Trois-Rivières. The 1818 Act revised the budget for each district's temporary gaol and provides an annual allowance to the Committees appointed to superintend the Houses of Correction in the Districts of Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières for the purposes described. By the 1817 Act committees are required to give an annual report of their expenses and processes by which the committees are to be appointed and proceed were also outlined. The act is to expire in 1821. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal and alter part of an Act, passed in the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for Founding, Establishing and Maintaining, an Academy at Pictou, in this Province.” | 59 George III – Chapter 15 | 1819 | This act repeals the second clause of an act first passed in 1816, which established the Pictou Academy and set out the manner in which its trustees are to operate as well as how they may be appointed. The second clause required trustees to declare their membership in the Church of England, or otherwise declare they professed the Presbyterian religion. The replacement clause requires trustees to proclaim themselves Christians "according to the Presbyterian principles and forms of the church of Scotland." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the District of Montreal, to appropriate from the funds therein-mentioned, a certain sum of money for the erection of additional Stalls in the Market-places, and to build two new Weigh-Houses. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 14 | 1819 | An act to allow Justices of the Peace to appropriate funds not exceeding two hundred pounds to erect ten or more additional stalls in the Old and New Market places in Montreal and up to an additional three hundred pounds to build new Weigh Houses at each market place. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to preserve and regulate the Navigation of the Harbour of Pictou. | 59 George III – Chapter 14 | 1819 | This act regulates the rates charged by pilots in Pictou Harbour, as well as the discharge of ballast, the building of wharves, and an appeals process by which those who disagree with decisions made by the Harbour Master can avail themselves. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, an Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the thirty-fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Act for the division of the Province of Lower-Canada for amending the Judicature thereof, and for repealing certain Laws therein-mentioned,’ and to provide more effectually for the administration of Justice in this Province.” (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 13 | 1819 | An Act to extend a former act from 1818 that extended the provisions of an Act passed in 1793 which divided Lower Canada into three districts and established a court of King's Bench in each. By the 1818 Act, any Judge in the province is authorised to preside over the duties of the Chief Justice of Puisne Justices of their district in the event that they are unable to perform these duties due to illness. This Act is to expire in 1820. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the encouragement of Agriculture, and Rural Economy, in this Province. | 59 George III – Chapter 13 | 1819 | This act creates a central agricultural committee, naming its members, who will oversee the creation of agricultural societies in each district. The terms of office for the agricultural committees are specified by the act, along with a general mandate of agricultural improvement. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the better application of certain monies heretofore appropriated for the Internal Communications of the County of Northumberland. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 12 | 1819 | An act to amend the sixth clause of a former act from 1817 "An Act to make more effectual provision for the improvement of the Internal Communications of this Province" to allocate funds to build a road between Parish of Saint Pierre de la Baie Saint Paul, to the Parish Church of Saint Joachim, by way of the hill commonly called, the Côte de la Miche that is more favourable to agriculture than the road proposed by the former act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time two several Acts therein-mentioned to regulate persons engaged in the trade of baking and selling Bread in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal and in the Town of Three Rivers. (24th April, 1819.) | 59 George III Chapter 11 | 1819 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1815 that was amended, altered, and continued in 1817 is continued until 1821. Under the original Act, any person found baking and selling bread without a license is subject to certain penalties. Directions for the distribution of licenses were outlined in the former Acts, as well as stipulations relating to the production and sale of bread. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the thirty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Town of Annapolis, and the Officers of His Majesty’s Garrison, stationed for the time being in the said Town of Annapolis, annually to nominate and appoint Supervisors to take charge of the Common appertaining to the said Town, and for other purposes therein mentioned.” | 59 George III – Chapter 11 | 1819 | This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1793, which makes provisions for the maintenance of common diked marshland outside of Annapolis. The amendment outlines penalties for anyone who should destroy or damage fences or pasture animals on common land when they do not have right to that commonage. | Early Canadiana Online |