GREAT BRITAIK 

 STATUTES. 



ACT OF MARCH 30, 1809. 

 (49 Geo. Ill, Cap. 27.) 



An Act for establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland 

 and the Islands adjacent ; and for reannexing Part of the Coast of Labrador 

 and the Islands lying on the said Coast to the Government of Newfoundland. 



(30th March, 1809.) 



XIV. AND whereas His Majesty, by his Proclamation of the 7th 

 day of October, 1763, was pleased to declare that he had put the 

 coast of Labrador from the River St. John to Hudson's Straits, with 

 the Islands of Anticosti and Madelaine, and all other smaller islands 

 lying on the said coast, under the care and inspection of the Governor of 

 Newfoundland ; and whereas, by an Act passed in the 14th year of the 

 reign of His present Majesty, entitled "An Act for making more effec- 

 tual provision for the government of the Province of Quebec in North 

 America," all such territories, islands, and countries as since the 10th 

 day of February, 1763, had been made part of the Government of 

 Newfoundland, were, during His Majesty's pleasure, annexed to and 

 made part of the Province of Quebec, as created by the said Procla- 

 mation ; and whereas, in pursuance of an Act passed in the 31st year 

 of His present Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act to repeal certain 

 parts of an Act passed in the 14th year of His Majesty's reign, en- 

 titled 'An Act for making more effectual provision for the govern- 

 ment of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make 

 further provision for the Government of the said Province,' " the 

 said Province of Quebec was divided into two Provinces of Upper 

 and Lower Canada, the latter including the parts of the coast of 

 Labrador and the said islands so formerly annexed to the Govern- 

 ment of Newfoundland; and whereas it is expedient that the said 

 coast of Labrador and the adjacent islands (except the Islands of 

 Madelaine) should be reannexed to the Government of Newfound- 

 land: 



Be it therefore enacted, that such parts of the coast of Labrador 

 from the River St. John to Hudson's Straits, and the said Island of 

 Anticosti, and all other smaller islands, so annexed to the Government 

 of Newfoundland by the said Proclamation of the 7th day of Octo- 

 ber, 1763 (except the said Islands of Madelaine), shall be separated 

 fiom the said Government of Lower Canada, and be again re-annexed 

 to the Government of Newfoundland. Anything in the said Act 

 passed in the 31st year of His present Majesty's reign or any other 

 Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 



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