Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for limiting the time during which penal actions may be brought in the Courts of this Province. (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 7 (S1) | 1812 | An act to place time restraints on certain actions, suits, or informations wherein the forfeiture or benefits will be limited to the King, His Heirs or Successors only. The period allowed for cases to be brought to court is limited to two years in cases of forfeiture and one year for cases of benefit. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to 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 licensed to keep Public Houses or Shops for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. | 52 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time An Act passed in the forty-eighth year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to provide for the maintenance of good order on Sundays and Holydays in the Country Parishes of this Province.” (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 6 (S1) | 1812 | An act to continue an act passed in 1808 that made the Office of Church Warden responsible for maintaining good order in Churches and Chapels in Lower Canada. The original act stipulates the duties of "ancient" Church Wardens and Overseers and how they are to be replaced. Penalties for causing disturbances on Sundays and holidays are also outlined in the 1808 act. The act is set to expire in 1816. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive and continue an Act, passed in the thirty-second year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the Summary Trials of Actions, before His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax,” and to revive and continue the several Acts in amendment to the said Act. | 52 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1812 | A continuation of an act first passed in 1792 and which was initially intended to last for one year, which outlines the processes by which civil actions or suits should be tried in the county of Halifax and the rotation of justices to serve. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue the Acts therein mentioned for making a temporary Provision for the Regulation of Trade between this Province and the United States of America, by land or inland Navigation. (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 5 (S1) | 1812 | An act to further continue an act from 1796, and amended in 1808 for a limited time. The act grants the Governor or Lieutenant Governor the authority to suspend, revive, annul, or make void this act, or every and any of its clauses. Th act allows the suspension of any act or ordinance relating to trade, in whole or in part, by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor. It further allows the Governor or Lieutenant Governor to make regulations with respect to imports, exports, duties, or anything else between Lower Canada and the United States. The act is to expire in 1813. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the support of a Light-House on the south end of Coffin’s Island, on the eastern side of the entrance of Liverpool Harbour. | 52 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act imposes a duty on ships entering Liverpool Harbour in order to support a lighthouse on Coffin's Island. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, two several Acts therein mentioned, regulating the Fisheries in the inferior District of Gaspé. (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 4 (S1) | 1812 | An act continue an act originally passed in 1807 and amended in 1808, that allows British subjects to freely take bait, cut wood, and fish from any river, creek, harbour, or road within the certain parts of the District of Gaspé. The original act also grants commander of British and Irish vessels the right to occupy unoccupied beaches within the district in order to cure and prepare fish for export. The 1808 amendments establish that all casks, barrels, or tierces of fish must be inspected by the Inspector of Fish prior to export and implements further restrictions regarding how fish should be caught and exported. These acts are to continue in force until 1814. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying certain Monies to the purposes therein mentioned. | 52 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1812 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further addition to the Act relating to Wills, Legacies and Executors, and for the settlement and distribution of the Estate of Intestates. | 52 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act allows for the estates of debtors to be distributed to creditors against the estate. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act made in England, in the twenty first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King James the First, Chapter twenty seventh, intituled, “An Act to prevent the destroying and murthering of Bastard Children, as to this Province of Lower Canada,” and for making provisions for the Trials of Women charged with the murder of any issue of their Bodies, male or female, which being born alive, would, by Law, be Bastard: (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 3 (S1) | 1812 | An act to repeal the former act respecting the murder of bastard children, which had been found inconvenient to put into practice. This act dictates that women charged with murdering "any issue of their bodies" will be tried as any other murder would be handled. Women convicted of murdering their bastards in order to conceal their birth are to be sentenced a period of hard labour not exceeding two years. | Early Canadiana Online |