Political Annals of Lower Canada: Being a Review of the Political and Legislative History of that Province Under the Act of the Imperial Parliament, 31, Geo. III, Cap. 31, which Established a House of Assembly and Legislative Council, Showing the Defects of this Constitutional Act and Particularly Its Practical Discouragement of British Colonization, with an Introductory Chapter on the Previous History of Canada, and an Appendix of Documents, &cOffice of the Montreal Herald and New Montreal Gazette, 1828 - 180 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 4 - Britain; and that in all Matters of Controversy, relative to Property and Civil Rights, Resort shall be had to the Laws of Canada, as the Rule for the Decision of the same...
الصفحة 2 - If by the treaty of peace, Canada should remain in the power of his Britannic Majesty, his most Christian Majesty shall continue to name the Bishop of the colony, who shall always be of the Roman communion, and under whose authority the people shall exercise the Roman Religion. —
الصفحة 1 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
الصفحة 86 - Our representatives in provincial parliament, who proposed a constitutional and proper mode of taxation, for building gaols, and who opposed a tax on commerce for that purpose, as contrary to the sound practice of the parent state.
الصفحة 26 - Majesty's subjects, and such goods and merchandize shall be subject to no higher or other duties, than would be payable by the citizens of the United States on the importation of the same in American vessels into the Atlantic ports of the said states.
الصفحة 4 - Governor and other civil officers of the said province, by the grants and commissions issued in consequence thereof, have been found, upon experience to be inapplicable to the state and circumstances of the said province, the inhabitants whereof amounted, at the conquest, to above sixty-five thousand persons professing the religion of the church of Rome, and enjoying an established form of constitution and system of laws...
الصفحة 26 - And in like manner, all goods and merchandize whose importation into the United States shall not be wholly prohibited, may freely, for the purposes of commerce, be carried into the same, in the manner aforesaid, by his Majesty's subjects, and such goods and...
الصفحة 4 - ... inapplicable to the state and circumstances of the said province, the inhabitants whereof amounted at the conquest to above sixtyfive thousand persons professing the religion of the Church of Rome, and enjoying an established form of constitution and system of laws, by which their persons and property had been protected, governed and ordered, for a long series of years, from the first establishment of the said province of Canada...
الصفحة 2 - The bishop shall, in case of need, establish new parishes, and provide for the rebuilding of his cathedral and his episcopal palace ; and, in the mean time, he shall have the liberty to dwell in the towns or parishes, as he shall judge proper — he shall be at liberty to visit his diocese with the ordinary ceremonies, and exercise all the jurisdiction which his predecessor exercised under the French dominion, save that an oath of fidelity, or a promise to do nothing contrary to His Britannic Majesty's...
الصفحة 2 - ARTICLE XXXIV. All the communities, and all the priests, shall preserve their moveables, the property and revenues of the Seignories and other estates, which they possess in the colony, of what nature soever they be ; and the same estates shall be preserved in their privileges, rights, honours, and exemptions —