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(2.) 



" An Act for extending the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Justice in the 

 Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada to the Trial and Punishment 

 of Persons guilty of Crimes and Offences within certain Parts of 

 North America, adjoining to the said Provinces." 



By this act, offences committed within the Indian territories were to 

 be tried in the same manner as if committed within the provinces of 

 Lower and Upper Canada ; the governor of Lower Canada may em- 

 power persons to act as justices of the peace for the Indian territories, 

 for committing offenders until they are conveyed to Canada for trial, &c. 

 This act remained in force until July 2d, 1821 when was passed, 



(3.) 



" An Act for regulating the Fur Trade, and establishing a Criminal and 

 Civil Jurisdiction, within certain Parts of North America* 



" Whereas the competition in the fur trade between the Governor and 

 Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, and cer- 

 tain associations of persons trading under the name of ' The North-West 

 Company of Montreal,' has been found, for some years past, to be pro- 

 ductive of great inconvenience and loss, not only to the said company and 

 associations, but to the said trade in, general, and also of great injury to 

 the native Indians, and of other persons, subjects of his majesty : And 

 whereas the animosities and feuds arising from such competition have 

 also, for some years past, kept the interior of America, to the northward 

 and westward of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and of the 

 territories of the United States of America, in a state of continued disturb- 

 ance: And whereas many breaches of the peace, and violence, extending 

 to the loss of lives, and considerable destruction of property have continu- 

 ally occurred therein : And whereas, for remedy of such evils, it is expe- 

 dient and necessary that some more effectual regulations should be estab- 

 lished for the apprehending, securing, and bringing to justice, all persons 

 committing such offences, and that his majesty should be empowered 

 to regulate the said trade : And whereas doubts have been entertained, 

 whether the provisions of an act passed in the forty-third year of the reign 

 of his late majesty, King George the Third, intituled 'An Act for extend- 

 ing the jurisdiction of the courts of justice in the provinces of Lower and 

 Upper Canada to the trial and punishment of persons guilty of crimes and 

 offences within certain parts of North America, adjoining to the said prov- 

 inces,' extended to the territories granted by charter to the said governor 

 and company ; and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed, 

 and that the said act should be further extended : Be it therefore 

 enacted, by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present 

 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That, from and 



* See p. 325. 



