| An Act to provide for the Registering of Deeds, Conveyances, Wills and other Incumbrances, which may affect any Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, the same being Executed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any of His Majesty's Colonies, and to amend an Act passed in the Thirty-fifth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled “An Act for the Public Registering of Deeds, Conveyances, Wills, and other Incumbrances, which shall be made, or may affect any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments within this Province." Passed 1st April, 1818. |
58 George III – Chapter 8 (Session 2) |
1818 |
This act facilitates the probate of wills and deeds between Upper Canada and other countries in the Empire, particularly Great Britain and Ireland. It is also an amendment of an act first passed in 1793. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making a temporary provision for the regulation of Trade between this Province and the United States of America, by land, or by inland Navigation. (1st April, 1818.) |
58 George III Chapter 8 |
1818 |
Under this Act, the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the government may suspend any ordinance or Act in part or whole relative to trade between Lower Canada and the United States by issuing and publishing an order. This Act is to expire in 1819. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal the Act, passed in the fifty-sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for the encouragement of the Trade of this Province in Plaster of Paris, otherwise called Gypsum.” |
58 George III – Chapter 8 |
1818 |
This Act repeals a former act relating to trade in gypsum. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An act granting to his Majesty a sum of money for certain purposes therein mentioned. |
58 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 3) |
1818 |
Act repealed by later legislation; not published in this version of the published acts. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled “An Act granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money, to be applied for the encouragement of the Cultivation of Hemp, within this Province.” Passed 1st April, 1818. |
58 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 2) |
1818 |
The repeal of an act first passed in 1856 which allowed for a sum of money to encourage farmers to cultivate hemp. It is being repealed because nobody has so far claimed the money. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant to the Religious Ladies Hospitalières, of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, a certain sum of Money for the purposes therein mentioned. (1st April, 1818.) |
58 George III Chapter 7 |
1818 |
An act to grant of sum of six thousand pounds to the Religious Ladies Hospitalières of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec to build new wards for the reception and relief of the sick. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, passed in the fifty-seventh Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for the better regulating the manner of holding the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, in the District of Yarmouth and Argyle, in the County of Shelburne.” |
58 George III – Chapter 7 |
1818 |
This Act grants grand jurors the power to present the sums necessary to pay district charges for the district of Yarmouth and Argyle twice per year. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An act to continue the laws now in force for granting an additional duty on shop licenses. (Passed 27th November, 1818.) |
58 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 3) |
1818 |
A continuation of an act regulating the granting of liquor licenses for a further five years. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act Granting to His Majesty a Duty on Licences to Auctioneers, and on Goods, Wares and Merchandise sold by Auction. Passed 1st April, 1818. |
58 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 2) |
1818 |
Specifies the need for auctioneers to hold a license in order to practice, which shall be renewed annually. This act specifies the cost of said license, what information they are to contain, and who is able to grant such license. It also places a levy on all goods sold at auction. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the encouragement of Agriculture in this Province. (1st April, 1818.) |
58 George III Chapter 6 |
1818 |
By this Act, a sum of two thousand pounds is to be given to Agricultural societies within the province. Allowances for the districts of Quebec, Trois-Rivières, and Montreal are described, as well as how the money is to be used. |
Early Canadiana Online |