Legislation by Province: United Canadas (1841-1857)
Displaying 1891 - 1900 of 1978 entries
| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for Incorporating the “Canada Fire Assurance Company.” 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 57 | 1841 | An Act to incorporate the "Canada Fire Assurance Company" of Quebec City until 1880. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to incorporate certain persons therein named, under the style and title of “The Sydenham Harbour Company.” 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 56 | 1841 | An Act that incorporates "The Sydenhem Habour Company" for the purpose of building and maintaining a harbour at the mouth of Annis's Creek in the Township of Whitby. Once completed, the company can collect tolls on all boats that use the harbout. After fifty years, the harbour will become property of the crown. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the payment of certain monies by the District Treasurers of the Districts in that part of this Province called Upper Canada to the Receiver General, and for other purposes. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 55 | 1841 | An act that requires that District Treasurers of former Upper Canada pay all money acquired by the laws of the former province to the Receiver General. The money will be used to pay the compensation and wages of Members of the House of Assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the North American Colonial Association of Ireland to loan monies in the County of Beauharnois. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 54 | 1841 | An Act that allows the North American Colonial Association of Ire Island to loan money to the municipal county of Beauharnois for the building and maintenance of turnpike roads, railroad canals, or other public works. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Ordinance passed by the Governor and Council of Quebec in the seventeenth year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, for preventing persons leaving the Province without a Pass. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 53 | 1841 | An Act to repeal the Ordinance of Quebec that required those who left the province to have a pass issued by the government. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to compel all Candidates, at any future Elections for Members of the Legislative Assembly, to make and subscribe detailed declarations of the property by them possessed, and under which they qualify. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 52 | 1841 | An Act that requires those who are seeking election as a Member of the Legislature to disclose in writing and under oath any land or tenements that they own. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appoint additional Commissioners to settle the affairs of the late pretended Bank of Upper Canada, at Kingston. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 51 | 1841 | An Act to appoint two additional Commissioners to the former Bank of Upper Canada to settle their affairs. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to grant certain stuns therein mentioned to Her Majesty, towards defraying the expenditure of the Civil Government, for the year ending the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 50 | 1841 | An Act which pays for expenses not covered by Law for the running of Civil Government in former Upper and Lower Canada. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the provisions of an Ordinance of the Legislature of the late Province of Lower Canada, intituled “An Ordinance for making a Rail Road from the City of Montreal to the Province line at or near Pointe à Beaudet.” 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 49 | 1841 | An Act that extends the time of construction of the railway between the city of Montreal and Pointe a Beaudet to six years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Stock held by private parties in the Welland Canal to be purchased on behalf of the Province. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 48 | 1841 | An Act which allows the government full control of the Welland Canal by creating debtures to the current private stock holders equaling one hundred and seventeen thousand and eight hundred pounds. These debtures last twenty years and have interest that increases by one percent a year. | Early Canadiana Online |