Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to amend the Process of the District Courts, and also further to regulate the Proceedings of Sheriffs in the Sale of Goods and Chattels taken by them in Execution. (Passed 13th March, 1811.) | 51 George III – Chapter 6 | 1811 | This act amends the procedures by which district sheriffs and officials seize and sell the goods and chattels of individuals who owe money for fines or fees to the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of the Poor in the loan of Seed Wheat, Corn and other necessary Grain. (21st. March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 6 | 1811 | Following a short harvest year, this Act makes any contract or agreement for supplies of wheat, peas, oats, or other seeds made within a limited time and in the presence of a credible witness a privileged debt to offer security for the payment of such supplies. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the proceedings of the Court of Escheats. | 51 George III – Chapter 6 | 1811 | This act regulates how public notices concerning court of escheats proceedings are to be published, and how inquiries are to proceed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend and continue for a limited time, an Act passed in the forty-ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for continuing 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, now in force relating thereto.” | 51 George III – Chapter 5 | 1811 | Expired; unpublished. | 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. (21st March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 5 | 1811 | An Act to further continue an Act from 1796 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the Forty-eighth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to provide for the accommodation and billeting of His Majesty’s Troops, or of the Militia, when on their march from one part of the Province to another.” | 51 George III – Chapter 5 | 1811 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1808, which regulated the provisioning and billeting of militia troops when they are on active duty and moving from one place in the province to another. The amendment concerns the manner of payment to those who provide provisioning to troops on the move. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying a certain sum of Money therein mentioned, to make good certain Monies issued and advanced by His Majesty, through the Lieutenant Governor, in pursuance of an Address of this House. | 51 George III – Chapter 4 | 1811 | Unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for declaring Judges to be disabled and disqualifying them, from being elected, or from Sitting and Voting in the House of Assembly. (21st March, 1811.) | 51 George III Chapter 4 | 1811 | An Act to exclude judges from either His Majesty's Courts of King's Bench from being elected to, sitting in, or voting as a member of the House of Assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Inhabitants of each Township to raise Money for defraying the expense attending the running or perambulating the Lines and Bounds of the respective Townships in this Province. | 51 George III – Chapter 4 | 1811 | This act makes it possible for townships to raise money in order to pay for the expense of having to re-establish their boundaries every three years, as required by the laws governing the support of the poor of each township. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend Personal Arrest to the sum of Forty Shillings, and otherwise to regulate the Practice in cases of Personal Arrest. (Passed 15th March, 1811.) | 51 George III – Chapter 3 | 1811 | This act raises the amount for which debtors can be arrested from ten pounds sterling to forty pounds sterling. | Early Canadiana Online |