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 to amend an Act passed in the forty fifth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the better regulation of Pilots and Shipping in the Port of Quebec and in the Harbours of Quebec and Montreal, and for improving the navigation of the River Saint Lawrence, and for establishing a Fund for decayed Pilots, their widows and children.” (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 12 (S1) | 1812 | An act to amend a former act passed in 1805, aspects of which had been found inadequate. The fund established, called the "decayed Pilot Fund" is to be divided between two distinct funds, the "Quebec Decayed Pilots' Fund" and the "Montreal Decayed Pilots' Fund." The revenue to support each fund is clarified. The act also amends the sum that will be due to pilots travelling to sea through "stress of weather." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the Commanding Engineer at Halifax, to enclose a part of the Highway leading from Fort Massey, to the Exercising Ground, on the Common of Halifax. | 52 George III – Chapter 11 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act makes provisions for the modification of the road from Fort Massey to the exercising ground in Halifax, which takes into consideration the fact that a part of the old road needs to be closed off. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and make perpetual an Act passed in the forty- eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to authorise the Judges, in Civil Causes, in this Province, to delegate the power of administering Oaths in certain cases therein mentioned.” (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 11 (S1) | 1812 | An act to continue and make perpetual a former act from 1808 to allow judges in civil causes to authorise individuals including notaries and justices of the peace to administer to the oath to experts, guardians, tutors, sub-tutors, or curators in places more than five leagues away from the Court to avoid the delay and expense of bringing distant experts to Court. The original act also included the oaths that may be taken by these individuals. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, and in addition to, an amendment of, the several Acts of the General Assembly, for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a Duty of Excise on all Goods, Wares and Merchandise, imported into this Province. | 52 George III – Chapter 10 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying a further sum of Money towards the Building and compleating of the Common Gaol for the District of Quebec and its Appendages. (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 10 (S1) | 1812 | This act, passed by virtue of an under the authority the 1805 act "An Act to provide for the erecting of a Common Gaol in each of the Districts of Quebec and Montreal, respectively, and the means of defraying the expences thereof" grants a further six thousand five hundred pounds for the construction of the Common Gaol for the District of Quebec. The act gives instructions for how the construction will be approached and how a clerk and treasurer for the gaol are to be appointed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Wine, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, Molasses, Coffee, and Brown Sugar. | 52 George III – Chapter 9 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the fifty-first year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to provide temporary Houses of Correction in the several Districts of this Province.” (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 9 (S1) | 1812 | An act to amend a former act from 1811 to provide temporary Houses of Correction in several districts, including the District of Quebec, District of Montreal, and District of Trois-Rivières until permanent facilities can be established. The original act set a budget for each district's temporary gaol and replaced the sentences of "punishment by transportation," "burns in the hand," or "death without the benefit of Clergy," with sentences in the House of Correction at the discretion of the Judges or Justices. This act 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 in the 1811 act. This act is to expire in 1814. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue in Force the several acts therein mentioned. | 52 George III – Chapter 8 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to secure the liberty of the Subject, by extending the Powers of His Majesty’s Courts of Law, in this Province, as to writs of Habeas Corpus ad Subjiciendum, and as to the means of enforcing obedience to such writs. (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 8 (S1) | 1812 | An act to give Justices and Judges the power to give a Writ of Habeas Corpus ad subjiciendum to any person found to confine or restrain anyone for any reason other than a criminal or supposed criminal matter. These Judges and Justices include: the Chief Justices of the Province and Court of King's Bench in Montreal, any of the Justices of the courts of the Districts of Montreal, Quebec, and Trois-Rivières, and the Judge of the Provincial Court of Gaspé. The act outlines the penalties to be laid on anyone who refuses to appear before the courts once given the said Writ of Habeas Corpus, allowances for travel to the courts, and processes regarding the treatment of the confined party. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and continue an Act for imposing an additional Duty of Excise on Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, and for appropriating the same. | 52 George III – Chapter 7 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |