Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to revive and continue the several Acts for regulating the Summary Trial of Actions, before His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax. | 54 George III – Chapter 11 | 1814 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the more impartial and effectual trial and punishment of High Treason and Misprison of High Treason, and Treasonable Practices in this Province. | 54 George III – Chapter 11 | 1814 | Expired; unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant to the Ladies of the Order of Charity of the City of Montreal, a Sum of Money, for the purposes therein mentioned. (17th March, 1814.) | 54 George III Chapter 11 | 1814 | An act to grant to Ladies of the Order of Charity of the City of Montreal a sum of three hundred and fifty-eight pounds to reimburse the money forwarded by them "for the relief of insane persons and foundlings." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act, passed in the fifty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for the improvement of the Great Roads through the Province.” | 54 George III – Chapter 10 | 1814 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1813, concerning the expansion of roads in the province. This amendment expands the original act to include roads outside the jurisdiction outside the original act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant to His Majesty an Additional Duty on Shop and Tavern Licences. | 54 George III – Chapter 10 | 1814 | Expired; unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant a further Sum of Money, for the more effectual attainment of the purposes of the Act of the Fifty-first year of His Majesty’s Reign, which provides for the Relief of Insane Persons and the support of Foundlings, and others therein mentioned. (17th March, 1814.) | 54 George III Chapter 10 | 1814 | An act to attribute further funds for the purposes stated in an act by the same name passed in 1811 and renewed in 1813. The original act was to provide support to people of 'deranged Intellect', incapable of earning their subsistence, foundlings, sick and infirm persons, as well as the support of Religious communities that administer relief. This act granted a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred pounds per annum, and an additional nine hundred pounds per annum, for the benefit of foundlings or the mentally infirm and dictates who will be responsible to administer this money. The act specifies the maximum funds permitted per district, including Fourteen Hundred Pounds for the District of Quebec, Seven Hundred Pounds for the District of Montreal, and Three Hundred Pounds for the District of Trois-Rivières. The 1813 act also made it lawful for Commissioners to bind out foundlings of a proper age as apprentices. The act is to expire in 1815. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act imposing a Duty on Articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. | 54 George III – Chapter 9 | 1814 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to declare certain persona therein described Aliens, and to vest their Estates in His Majesty. (Passed March 14th, 1814.) | 54 George III – Chapter 9 | 1814 | This act removes land title from individuals who hold American citizenship, and have returned to the United States since the declaration of war between the United States and Great Britain in 1812. The properties which were once owned by the said Americans are turned over to the crown. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying a further Sum of Money, towards the erecting a Common Gaol, with a Court Hall, at New-Carlisle in the inferior District of Gaspé. (17th March, 1814) | 54 George III Chapter 9 | 1814 | An act to apply a further sum of money towards erecting a gaol and court hall in New-Carlisle and to continue an act from 1808 “An Act for erecting Common Gaols, with Court Halls, in the Inferior District of Gaspé.” |
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| An Act to alter the time of the sitting of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the County of Sydney. | 54 George III – Chapter 8 | 1814 | This act changes the times at which the court of common pleas is held in Guysborough, to the first Tuesday of July, and the second Tuesday in December. | Early Canadiana Online |