Legislation by Source Document: Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1797. West Niagara: Titus G. Simons, 1797.
This act allows the chief administrator of Upper Canada to suspend any legislation that may impede free trade with the United States as outlined in the Jay Treaty (1794).
This act makes it lawful for felons from other British North American provinces to be apprehended in Upper Canada and transmitted back to the province in which their offences were committed.
This act corrects a clerical error in recent letters patent, allowing the erroneous "clergymen" to have the same force and effect as the intended "clergy."
This act establishes the Law Society of Upper Canada to "secure to the province and the profession a learned and honourable body ... and to support and maintain the constitution of the said province."
This act allows the chief administrator of the province to once again appoint commissioners to negotiate the duties to be paid on commerce between Upper and Lower Canada, the last round of negotiations having failed.
This act renews expired duties on the public sale of alcohol and requires those intending to sell alcohol to obtain a license regardless of whether or not they keep a public house.