Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to grant a Salary to the Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, to enable him to support the dignity of his office, during the present Provincial Parliament. | 55 George III Chapter 21 | 1815 | Under this Act, the Speaker of the House of Assembly is granted an annual salary of one thousand pounds. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage the Fisheries of the Province, by granting a Bounty on the importation of Salt, and also for regulating and imposing a Duty on the exportation of the same article. | 55 George III – Chapter 20 | 1815 | This act regulates the price and taxes to be paid for salt in the province, in an attempt to make it more readily available for the fishery and make shortages caused by high prices and supply issues less common. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An act to grant an Aid to His Majesty, to assist in opening a Canal from the neighbourhood of Montreal to La Chine, and further to provide for facilitating the execution of the same. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 20 | 1815 | An Act to grant a sum of twenty-five thousand pounds to construct a Canal from Montreal to La Chine. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government the authority to appoint as many people as he thinks fit to be Commissioners and a secretary to superintend the project and administer funds allocated to it. These Commissioners and their successors are declared "the Board of Administration of the Royal Canal of Canada." Requirements for the canal's construction are detailed, and measures to be put in place once construction is complete. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to facilitate the passage across the Harbour of Halifax. | 55 George III – Chapter 19 | 1815 | This act permits the establishment of a steam boat ferry across Halifax Harbour, to be operated and managed by the individuals named within the act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant a certain sum of money to Joseph Bouchette, Esquire, to assist him in publishing Geographical and Topographical Maps of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 19 | 1815 | An act to provide Joseph Bouchette, Esquire, Surveyor General of the Province of Lower Canada, a sum of five hundred pounds to be aid with him carrying out his mapping project which is deemed to be of great public utility. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act imposing a Duty on Articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. | 55 George III – Chapter 18 | 1815 | This act places a duty on all items imported from the United States, except the named exceptions. The proceeds are to be applied to the support of the poor of the county in which they are collected. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the holding of the Provincial Court of Appeals during the repairs to be done to the Court House at Quebec. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 18 | 1815 | Under this Act, the Provincial Court of Appeals will be holden and kept where the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government shall appoint within the City of Quebec. The Act stipulates that the Clerk of the Provincial Court of Appeals is responsible for notifying the public where it will be holden. This Act is to expire in 1816. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, alter and continue, the several Acts of the General Assembly, for raising a Revenue to repair the Roads throughout the Province, by laying a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licenced to keep Public Houses and Shops for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. | 55 George III – Chapter 17 | 1815 | This act continues various past acts relating to raising revenues to repair and build roads, particularly to those acts which appropriate the revenue raised by charging licensing fees for the sale of alcoholic beverages. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make good the Deficiency of the Funds by Law provided, for paying the Salaries of the Officers of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, and the contingent expences thereof. (25th March, 1815.) | 55 George III Chapter 17 | 1815 | This Act outlines where funds for paying back an amount advanced to pay the salaries of the officers of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly are to be taken from, as the monies allowed for this purpose by two former Acts were insufficient. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate Markets in the Town of Halifax; and also, to repeal an Act, passed in the thirty-ninth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for repairing, or rebuilding, the Market House, and regulating the several Markets in the Town of Halifax;” and also to revive, alter, amend, and bring into one Act, the Act for preventing Fraud by Butchers and Fishmongers, and the Act made in the thirty-fourth year of His late Majesty’s reign, for regulating and establishing a Public Market in the Town of Halifax. | 55 George III – Chapter 16 | 1815 | An appeal of an act passed in 1799, which was itself an amendment to several other acts dating back to 1760, regulating the public market practices of Halifax. The current bill repeals the past acts and replaces it with new measures. | Early Canadiana Online |