Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online

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Title Chapter Date Passed Legislative Summary Source Document
An Act for the abolition of feudal rights and duties in Lower Canada. Assented to 18th December, 1854. 18 Victoria – Chapter 3 1854 Early Canadiana Online
An Act to Provide for the Retiring Allowances of certain Public Officers of the Government of this Colony. (Passed 30th November, 1854.) 18 Victoria Chapter 2 (Session 2) 1854 This act provides a retirement pension for the named individuals who have served the provincial government. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to make better provision for the appropriation of Moneys arising from the Lands heretofore known as the Clergy Reserves, by rendering them available for Municipal purposes. Assented to 18th December, 1854. 18 Victoria – Chapter 2 1854 Early Canadiana Online
An Act for the Encouragement of Education. (Passed 30th November, 1854.) 18 Victoria Chapter 1 (Session 2) 1854 This act grants a sum of seven thousand eight hundred and eighty pounds to support schools throughout the province. Early Canadiana Online
An Act for giving effect on the part of this Province, to a certain Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America. Assented to 23d September, 1854. 18 Victoria – Chapter 1 1854 Early Canadiana Online
An Act to declare the Rates in Currency at which British Gold and Silver Coins shall be a Legal Tender. (Passed 14th June, 1854)
 		17 Victoria Chapter 5 1854 This act standardizes the local currency rates which will be paid for British tender. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to raise by Loan a Sum of Money for the general purposes of the Colony. (Passed 14th June, 1854). 17 Victoria Chapter 4 (Session 1) 1854 This act authorises the government to raise a loan of six thousand pounds to pay for various unspecified expenses. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to continue and amend the Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties on Goods, Wares and Merchandise, imported into this Colony and its Dependencies. (Passed 27th May, 1854). 17 Victoria Chapter 3 (Session 1) 1854 This act continues prior acts which define duties to be collected on goods being imported into the province in order to generate a revenue for the province. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to Incorporate a Company under the style and title of “The New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company.” (Passed 15th April, 1854.) 17 Victoria Chapter 2 (Session 1) 1854 This act incorporates the New York, Newfoundland, and London telegraph company under the named individuals, and legislates the rules and regulations under which they are to operate. Early Canadiana Online
An Act to Repeal an Act passed in the Fifteenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled “An Act to Repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled ‘An Act for the appointment of Electric Telegraph Commissioners, and for Incorporating Electric Telegraph Companies;’ and also to provide for Incorporating the Newfoundland Electric Telegraph Company;” and also an Act to amend the said recited Act, passed in the Sixteenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.
(Passed 15th April, 1854.)
 		17 Victoria Chapter 1 (Session 1) 1854 This act completely repeals an act passed in 1852, which repealed certain clauses of the incorporation the Newfoundland Electric Telegraph Company. Early Canadiana Online