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 granting to His Majesty a sum of Money, to be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this Province, and to provide for the Regulations of the said Common Schools. Passed 1st April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 38 | 1816 | This act grants money for the building and use of schools throughout the province. It details the minimum requirement for both the establishment of schools and school boards, the qualifications of teachers, the authority and powers held by school trustees, and the appointment of boards of education within the respective districts. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty a sum of Money, and to Provide for the Appointment of a Provincial Agent for this Province. Passed 1st April, 1816. |
56 George III – Chapter 37 | 1816 | This act sets aside a sum to be paid from the provincial budget to appoint a Provincial Agent, who will sit at the court of Great Britain, and who cannot be removed without first consulting the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty, Duties on Licences to Hawkers, Pedlars and Petty Chapmen, and other Trading Persons therein mentioned. Passed 1st April 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 36 | 1816 | This act requires hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapman to apply and pay for a license in order to operate within the province. This license must be renewed in April of every year. The act also specifies various regulations to be followed by the collectors of the fees to be paid by those applying for the licenses. | Early Canadiana Online |
| 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, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 35 (1) | 1816 | This act permits the payment of a twenty pound bounty for the production of every quintal of hemp, and appoints inspectors for every district within the province to assure the quality of hemp production. Inspectors will be paid by the producers one shilling and three pence for every hundred weight of hemp they inspect. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act, passed in the forty eighth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to explain, amend and reduce to one Act of Parliament, the several Laws now in being, for the Raising and Training the Militia of this Province.” Passed 1st April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 32 | 1816 | This act amends certain clauses within an act passed in 1808 which consolidated all militia acts regarding training into one act of parliament. The modified clauses deal mostly with those who are compelled to militia service, and the imposition and levying of fines. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a sum of Money for the Remuneration of Elizabeth Wright. Passed 1st April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 31 | 1816 | This act grants a sum of money to Elizabeth Wright, the widow of Charles Wright, a tailor of the Niagara region. The money was in remuneration for clothing made for the militia and which was not paid before Mr. Wright's death. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly for the raising a revenue to repair the roads throughout the Province, by laying a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed to keep Public Houses and Shops for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. | 56 George III – Chapter 30 | 1816 | This Act continues a former act relating to duties on liquor licences in order to raise revenue for public works as described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time the Provisional Agreement entered into, between this Province and Lower Canada, at Montreal, on the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and four, relative to Duties; also, for continuing for a limited time, the several Acts of the Parliament of this Province relative thereto. Passed 1st April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 30 | 1816 | This act continues an agreement passed in 1804 between Upper and Lower Canada concerning trade and duties on certain items, and the appointment of commissioners to decide upon such matters. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for founding, establishing and maintaining, an Academy at Pictou, in this Province. | 56 George III – Chapter 29 | 1816 | This Act establishes the Pictou Academy and sets out the manner in which its trustees are to operate as well as how they may be appointed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making temporary Provision for the Regulation of Trade, between this Province and the United States of America, by Land or Inland Navigation. Passed 1st April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 29 | 1816 | This act permits greater restriction on trade with the United States with the advice of the Legislative Council or its representatives, with the exception of articles which are deemed essential and which are listed in the second clause. | Early Canadiana Online |