Report On The Boundaries Of The Province Of Ontario: Containing In Part The Substance Of A Report Prepared For The Government Of The Province In 1872, By David Mills, Esq., M.p.: And Afterwards Revised And Considerably Enlarged By The Author For The
Report On The Boundaries Of The Province Of Ontario: Containing In Part The Substance Of A Report Prepared For The Government Of The Province In 1872, By David Mills, Esq., M.p.: And Afterwards Revised And Considerably Enlarged By The Author For The
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...the Proclamation of 1791, without reference to the decision of the Court in the case referred to. It is true the Aot of 1791 refers to the division of the Province of Quebec. It is also true that the Act says nothing about the enlargement of the Province of Upper Canada beyond the limits of the Province of Quebec; but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...the Proclamation of 1791, without reference to the decision of the Court in the case referred to. It is true the Aot of 1791 refers to the division of the Province of Quebec. It is also true that the Act says nothing about the enlargement of the Province of Upper Canada beyond the limits of the Province of Quebec; but it must not be forgotten that the Act does not divide the Province of Quebec. It leaves the prerogative of the C rown to change the boundaries of Royal Provinces untouched. The instrument by which the division was made was the King's own act. He might have made this division whether Parliament legislated or not. It is to his instrument, and to his only, that we must look for the limits of Upper Canada. This fact seems in some measure to have been lost sight of in the trials of De Reinhard and Maclellan. The power of the Crown to alter the boundaries of Royal colonies in undoubted. By the Treaty of Paris, 1763, France ceded the Island of Cape Breton to the King and Crown of Great Britain. The King by the proclamation of October 1763, annexed Cape Breton and Prinoe Edward's Island to the Government of Nova Scotia. In 1784 a separate government was given to Cape Breton by Royal Commission. In 1763 he limited to the Mississippi, by Treaty, Colonies which, by charters, extended to the South Sea. He assigned the boundaries of Florida and Georgia by Proclamation or by Letters Patent, and the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire by Order in Council. Now the simple question that here presents itself is, did the Act of 1791 in any way limit the prerogative of the Crown in the case of Upper Canada? It is clear that it did not. Before the plan upon which the King had resolved could be carried out, See the cue of Conolly v. Woolrioh et at., L. ...
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