Lower canada house assembly (6 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. 8vo, 22.5cm, 20p., self wraps, very good to fine, rare. (Qc.bx) T.P.L. 1980. Sabin 10540. A petition concerning an elective legislative, the judiciary, land grants, internal affairs, etc. It was passed by the British Parliament-"Ayes, 55; Noes, 7.-Majority, 48.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 4to, (in fours), 23x 17.5cm,[8], preliminary leaves [-2],3-204p., French and English title pages and printed in English and French on facing pages, in original half calf and marbled boards, red leather spine label, ex-library with bookplate and stamps on both tp's., else a fine clean copy. (cgc) Tremaine 1094. TPL640. Gagnon I: 1830. The Journals were published in very small editions of 100 copies, for use of the Members of the House of Assembly. Printed from 1793 to 1836, the first Journal was issued after the first session of the Lower Canada House of Assembly in December of 1792. The Constitutional Act of 1791, divided Canada into two parts, Upper and Lower. Lower Canada being pre-dominately French speaking, necessitated any official documentation being in both English and French. The House of Assembly had the authority to levy taxes in the Colony and to pay the administration. An Abstract in this issue lists the Civil Administration payments and pensions to the civil ministration for 1797. With the approbation of the Governor-in-Chief of the Canadas, General Robert Prescott. …

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth-backed boards. 8vo. 283, 3pp. Ordered by the Assembly to be Printed, [Quebec, ] This report whose recommendations and conclusions were highly critical of his government were voted through the assembly without allowing Dalhousie any right of reply, effectively it ended his career in Canada, and was the cause of bitterness thoughout the rest of his life. 600 copies were ordered to be printed in February 1829 TPL. 1550.…

8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 3(index), [4]-255. modern calf (covers bit discoloured). The majority of the grievances were directed at the authoritarian regime of Lord Dalhousie as governor of Lower Canada and Governor-in-Chief of British North America, 1820-28, when he was recalled. Included are grievances relating to Dalhousie's establishment of a new Quebec Gazette, his censure of Sir Francis Burton for having sanctioned a Bill of Supply, his dismissal of militia officers and exercise of intimidation during elections, his dismissal of justices of the peace, and the unfair manner of jury selection. "Among other things, the Montreal petitioners complained that, contrary to the laws of England, juries, both grand and petty, and both King's Bench and Quarter Sessions, were being drawn exclusively from the town of Montreal rather than from the district at large. The committee, chaired by Denis-Benjamin Viger, concluded that this practice of jurors being "selected, or as it were, packed - summoned exclusively from among the inhabitants of a particular place, or from a particular class - cannot be more compatible with liberty, than it is with the rules of impartial justice. It is repugnant to every principle of our government, and can only tend to the overthrow of the constitution of the country.The executive's control over the process of selecting juries became, for the Patriotes, yet another symbol of despotism and of the attempted exclusion of canadiens from their democratic rights, given that they predominated in the countryside; a number of highly political jury trials for libel and sedition did nothing to help matters. The controversy only began to die down from 1830, when James Kempt ordered that jurors be drawn from the body of the district; the denouement came in 1832, when the legislature adopted a law regulating the qualification and selection of jurors" (Donald Fyson, 'Grand Juries, Political Power And Citizenship In Quebec And Lower Canada, 1764-1830', a paper for the 77th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Ottawa, May 1998)TPL 1549. Sabin 10568. cfCasey I 1279. Not in Dionne, Gagnon, or Lande.…