Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to extend the provisions of an Act made and passed in the forty seventh year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for the more easy recovery of small Debts in certain parts of this Province.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 15 | 1808 | An Act to extend a former Act from 1807, and further enacts that all Justices who are to be appointed will have the rights, powers, and authority mentioned in the former Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, An Act passed in the thirty sixth year or His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for making a temporary provision for the regulation of Trade between this Province, and the United States of America, by Land or Inland Navigation.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 14 | 1808 | 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 by Proclamation. This 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 for making perpetual, with some amendments, the Act, intituled, “An Act for the appointment of an Inspector and, Measurers of Scows and Rafts, and for regulating the Pilots and Conductors thereof, between Chateauguay and the City of Montreal.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 13 | 1808 | An Act to make a former Act from 1805 perpetual, with some amendments. The Act annuls the former's regulations for the measurement and branding of scows, amends stipulations regarding fees and penalties, and the Inspector's duties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise Eustache Nicolas Lambert Dumont, Esquire, to erect a Toll Bridge over the River Outaouais. (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 12 | 1808 | An Act to authorise Eustache Nicolas Lambert Dumont, esq. to construct a toll bridge across the River Outaouais from the Îsle Jesus to the Island of Montreal. Toll rates and restrictions are outlined. The Act stipulates the amount of space to be allowed between pillars in the river to allow traffic through, and procedures if damage to the bridge should be incurred. The Act makes provisions that roads and highways may be redirected or routed to communicate with these bridges. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying a certain Sum therein mentioned, to make good a like Sum, issued, and advanced in pursuance of an Address of the House of Assembly, and for the relief of Insane Persons, and for the support of Foundlings. (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 11 | 1808 | An Act to advance a sum for the support of 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for extending the duration of the Patent granted for erecting the Bridge over the river Saint Charles, now called, Dorchester Bridge. (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 10 | 1808 | An Act to extend the term allowed for the Dorchester bridge's proprietors and their heirs to collect tolls for passage across the River Saint Charles on the basis that the expiring period of 50 years was not sufficient to present a profit to the proprietors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide a temporary Gaol for the District of Montreal. (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 9 | 1808 | An Act to erect a temporary gaol in the District of Montreal until a permanent gaol is erected according to the terms presented in an 1805 act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for better regulating the weight and rates at which certain Coins shall pass current in this Province; for preventing the falsifying, counterfeiting or impairing of the same; and for repealing the Act and Ordinance therein mentioned. (14th. April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 8 | 1808 | This Act lists the weights of coins within the province and the corresponding weights of other currencies. Measures to be taken for coins that do not correspond to the standard weights are outlined. Penalties for falsifying currency are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to permit the Provincial Court of Appeals to be holden and kept in such place as the Governor shall appoint. (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 7 | 1808 | An Act to permit the Court of Appeals to be holden and kept in such place or places outside of Court Houses within the City of Quebec when necessary. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act which declares in whom is vested the power of granting des Lettres de Terrier in this Province. (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 6 | 1808 | An Act to clarify the transfer of authority to appoint des Lettres de Terriers from the King of France's representative to the King of England's representative. | Early Canadiana Online |