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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    Governor to appoint three commissioners. Their agreement inva- lid until confirmed by the legislature. (58th Geo. Ill, c 13.) (Amended by 2d Geo- IV, e 6.) Preamble. Present practitioners incorporated into a law society. The society to form rules. Place and time for the first meeting for adopt- ing rules. Present practitioners may take one pupil. [a] See 47th Geo. Ill, c 5. None but members of the society to practise, except, &c. [First Session, 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 it shall and may be lawful for the governor, lieutenant governor, or person administering his Majesty’s government in this province, from time to time by letters patent, under the great seal of the province, to commission, authorize, and empower, three able and discreet persons, two of whom shall be a quorum, to treat, consult, and agree, with the persons to be duly authorized for that purpose by a power to be granted by an act of the legislature of his Majesty’s province of Lower Canada, of and concerning the establishing such regulations as may regard the collection of duties, or payment of drawbacks, to be imposed or allowed on goods passing from one province into the other, by the legislature of each province respectively ; and of and concerning any proportions to be received and paid of any equal duties already imposed, or hereafter to be imposed, by the said legislatures respectively, on any article or commodity passing from one province into the other; and of and con- cerning any regulations, provisions, matters, and things, which may regard the commerce, manufactures, or produce, of the said province. II. Provided always, and be it enacted and declared, That no regulation, provision, matter, or thing, so proposed, treated, consulted, or agreed, shall have any other force or effect, or be carried any further into execution, until the same shall have been confirmed by the legislature of this province. Chapter XIII. An act for the better regulating the practice of the law. [Passed July 8, 1797.] Be it 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, consti- tuted 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, it shall and may be lawful for the persons now admitted to practise in the law, and practising at the bar of any of his Majesty’s courts of this province, to form themselves into a society, to be called the Law Society of Upper Canada, as well for the establishing of order amongst themselves, as for the purpose of securing to the province and the profession a learned and honorable body, to assist their fellow subjects as occasion may require, and to support and maintain the constitution of the said province. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said society shall, and is hereby authorized, to form a body of rules and regulations for its own government, under the inspection of the judges of the province for the time being, as visitors of the said society, and to appoint the six senior members, or more, of the present practitioners, and the six senior members, or more, for the time being, in all times to come, (whereof his Majesty’s attorney general and solicitor general, for the time being, shall be, and be considered to be two,) as governors or benchers of the said society, and also to appoint a librarian and a treasurer. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said practitioners, or as many as can be called together, (whereof his Majesty’s attorney general and solicitor general shall be two,) to assemble at the town of Newark, in the county of Lincoln, on the seventeenth day of July next ensuing the passing of this act, for the purpose of framing and adopting such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the immediate establishment of the said society and its future welfare; and such rules and regulations as shall then and there be adopted, shall be openly read and entered in a book, to be for that purpose provided, and having received the approbation of the said judges as visitors as aforesaid, shall be, and be considered to be the constitution of the said society, and binding upon all its members : Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful in time to come, to add such other rules and regulations, with the approbation of the judges as aforesaid, as may then and there be necessary. IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for every per- son now practising at the bar of any of his Majesty’s courts, to take one [a] pupil or clerk, for the purpose of instructing him in the knowledge of the laws, any law or ordi- nance to the contrary notwithstanding. V. And be it further enacted, That no person other than the present practitioners, and those hereafter mentioned, shall be permitted to practise at the bar of any of hie Majesty’s
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