The statutes of the province of Upper Canada [1792-1831]; together with such British statutes, ordinances of Quebec, and proclamations, as relate to the said province.

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1831
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Credit: The statutes of the province of Upper Canada [1792-1831]; together with such British statutes, ordinances of Quebec, and proclamations, as relate to the said province. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fourth Session of the first Provincial Parliament. MET AT NEWARK, ON THE SIXTH DAY OF JULY, AND PROROGUED ON THE TENTH DAY OF AUGUST FOLLOWING, IN THE THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE, ESQUIRE, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Anno Domini 1795. Chapter I. _*■ An act to regulate the practice of physic and surgery. [Repealed bv 46th Geo. Ill, Ch.2.] Chapter II. An act to ascertain the eligibility of persons to be returned to the house of assembly. [Repealed bt 58th Geo. Ill, Ch. 9.] Chapter III. An act to ratify, approve, and confirm, the provisional agreement entered into by the commissioners on behalf of this province, with the commissioners on behalf of the province of Lower Canada. [Expired.] (See 34th Geo. Ill, o 2) Preamble. Jurisdiction granted to the court of king’s bench in actions for goods seized as contra- band, and process to be had therein, as in simi-- lar cases in his Majes- ty’s court of exchequer in England. Chapter IV. An act to explain and amend an act passed in the thirty-fourth year of his Majesty's reign, entitled, “ An act to establish a superior court of civil and criminal jurisdic- tion, and to regulate the court of appeal [Passed August 10,1795.] Whereas doubts have arisen respecting the jurisdiction of his Majesty’s court of his bench in this province, as far as the same may concern the condemnation of contraband goods; be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the legislative council and assembly of the province of Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an act passed in the parliament of Great Britain, entitled, “ An act to repeaL certain parts of an act passed in the fourteenth year of his Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘ An act for making more effectual provision for the government of the province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the government of the said province,’ ” and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, all actions of debt, bill, plaint, or information, that may be brought upon any seizure of contraband goods, by any ordinance or act in force, or to be in force in this province, for the prevention of smuggling or any clandestine or unlaw- ful commerce or intercourse heretofore, now, or hereafter carried on, or to be carried on, by and between his Majesty’s subjects or people of any other state or country when and where the same may be prohibited, shall be heard and determined in his Majesty’s court of his bench; and that it shall and may be lawful upon any action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, brought or to be brought upon any seizure before this act made, or to be hereafter made, of any contraband or prohibited goods, now or hereafter made or to be made contraband, for the justices of his Majesty’s bench for the time being to proceed to the hearing and determining thereof, in as full and ample a manner as is now done and practised in his Majesty’s court of exchequer in England, and to condemn the same, if it shall be lawful so to do, and to award such damages and costs as may now or hereafter be given by any ordinance or law now in being, or hereafter to be for the regulation of
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