Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for applying certain Monies to the purposes therein mentioned. | 48 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1808 | This act requests that unappropriated government funds be used to pay various expenses related to the house of assembly, and lighthouse repairs required at Annapolis necessitated by fire damage. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, an Act passed in the forty fifth year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled: “An Act to ratify and confirm the Provisional articles of agreement entered into by the respective Commissioners of this Province and of Upper Canada, at Montreal; on the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and four, relative to duties, and for carrying the same into effect, and also further to continue an Act passed in the thirty seventh year of his Majesty’s reign.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 5 | 1808 | An Act to continue several acts pertaining to trade between Upper and Lower Canada, including articles negotiated between Upper and Lower Canada concerning trade and tariffs. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, passed in the Forty-Seventh Year of his present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the expenditure of Monies hereafter to be appropriated for the service of Roads and Bridges.” | 48 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1808 | A continuation of an act first passed in 1806, which specified how commissioners appointed to oversee road construction and improvement projects were to handle the funds for hiring labour, buying supplies, and pay contracts. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the Magistrates of the City of Montreal, to erect forty temporary Stalls on the New Market Place, and to borrow a certain sum of Money for that purpose. (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 4 | 1808 | An Act to provide a loan to the Magistrates of the City of Montreal in order to provide temporary stalls at the new Market Place, after a former Act from 1807 for building a new Market House was not carried into execution. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impose and appropriate an additional Duty on all Wine, hereafter to be imported into this Province. | 48 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1808 | This act imposes a further duty of six pence per gallon of wine imported into the province in order to pay an annual pension of five hundred pounds to Sir John Wentworth, former Lieutenant-Governor, for his lifetime. The act also includes provisions for any leftover sums which may accrue from this duty, should the tax result in more than the five hundred pounds required for the specified pension. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, an Act passed in the forty third year of his Majesty’s reign, entituled: “An Act for the better regulation of the Militia of this Province, and for repealing certain Acts or Ordinances therein mentioned.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 3 | 1808 | An Act to continue, for a limited time, a former Act from 1803. The original Act declares that all men between the ages of eighteen and sixty are to be militia men, bound to serve in their division's militia. The Act also outlines who is to be excepted from this law, how order is to be maintained, and how these men are to be enrolled and trained. | Early Canadiana Online |
| 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. | 48 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1808 | This act regulates the provisioning and billeting of militia troops when they are on active duty and moving from one place in the province to another. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue, for a limited time, an Act passed in the forty third year of his Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for the better preservation of his Majesty's Government, as by Law, happily established in this Province.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 2 | 1808 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1803, without amendments, for a limited time. The Act allows individuals suspected of treason or treasonable activities to be detained without bail or a trial while this act is in effect. This Act is to expire in 1809 or the at the close of the present war. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the greater Security of this Province by a better regulation of the Militia, and to repeal the Militia Laws now in force. | 48 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 1) | 1808 | This act replaces all prior militia acts with new regulations governing enrollment, training, penalties for failing to muster, reimbursement for innkeepers who supply mustering troops, and many other concerns surrounding the maintenance of a provincial militia. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue for a limited time, and amend an Act passed in the forty third year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for establishing Regulations respecting Aliens and certain Subjects of His Majesty, who have, resided in France, coming into this Province, or residing therein.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 1 | 1808 | An Act to continue an act passed in 1803, for a limited time, to monitor the entrance of "foreigners" into the province by ship with some amendments to extend to those who enter from contiguous regions. The Act requires that ship commanders report the number of "foreigners" on board their vessel to Customs officials when they arrive at ports within the province. The Act grants authority to Justices of the Peace to jail and remove "Aliens" who remain within the province longer than the period allowed by the court. Penalties including fines are outlined as well as who is to be considered an "Alien." The Act requires anyone entering into the province to receive a passport from appointed individuals stationed at Frontier Posts. | Early Canadiana Online |