The North Western Territories of America Act 1859
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Forty-third Year of King George the Third (Chapter One hundred and thirty-eight), "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," and an Act was passed in the Session holden in the First and Second Years of King George the Fourth (Chapter Sixty-six), for regulating "the ...