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Titre

Civil Secretary, appointments to offices: Upper Canada and Canada West
Upper Canada and Canada West: Civil Secretary and Provincial Secretary, records relating to the issuance of licences
Secrétaire civil, nominations. Haut-Canada et Canada Ouest
Upper Canada Marriage bonds: nominal card index (Finding Aid 1809)

Identificateur

MIKAN: 105217
Reels/Bobines: H-1126 to H-1128
Archival Reference/Référence Archivistique: RG 5 B 7, RG 5 B 29, RG 5 B 17, RG 5 B 10, RG 5 B 9
oocihm.lac_mikan_105217
lac_mikan_105217

Sujet

Government
Genealogy
Law and justice
Gouvernement
Généalogie
Droit et justice

Document original

Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Notes

1793-1876
Copyright Not Evaluated/Droit d'auteur non évalué
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Langue

anglais

Description

The civil secretary, a personal appointee of the Lieutenant Governor, conducted the whole internal management of the province, initiating or handling all public business and dealing with petitions for favours and appeals from decisions made by subordinate authorities. For much of the period from the establishment of civil government in 1764 to the union in 1841, the offices of Civil Secretary to the Governor and Clerk to the Executive Council were held in plurality by one man. The offices of Civil and of Provincial Secretary were briefly held in plurality by John Ready from 1820 to 1822.
As custodian of the Lieutenant Governor's privy seal, the Civil Secretary was responsible for the preparation and issuance of all licences and other documents to which that Seal was affixed in Upper and Lower Canada. The Civil Secretary's related responsibilities included the recording of applications and recommendations for appointments to offices, particularly magistrates, and supervision of the Court of Requests. While letters patent, commissions, warrants and other documents issued over the Great Seal of the province were prepared in the office of the Provincial Secretary and Registrar, custodian of that seal, they were submitted to the governor for signature through the Civil Secretary.
This collection consists of a subject index on index cards of records accumulated by the Civil Secretary in fulfilment of his duties relating to the issuance of licences and the management of appointments to office. They have been organized into series of applications and recommendations, bonds and certificates, correspondence of the Inspector of Licences, documents relating to the Court of Requests and applications for licences as notaries public.
Le secrétaire civil, dont la nomination relevait du lieutenant-gouverneur, contrôlait l'ensemble de l'administration interne de la province. Il s'occupait de toutes les affaires d'ordre public, des demandes de faveurs et des contestations soulevées par les décisions prises par des autorités subalternes. Pendant la majeure partie de la période allant de de l'établissement du gouvernement civil en 1764 jusqu'à l'Union de 1841, les fonctions de secrétaire civil du gouverneur et de greffier du Conseil exécutif étaient cumulées par une seule et même personne. Entre 1820 et 1822, John Ready a brièvement cumulé les postes de secrétaire civil et de secrétaire de la province.
En tant que gardien du sceau privé du lieutenant-gouverneur, le secrétaire civil était responsable de la préparation et de l'émission de toutes les commissions et autres documents auxquels le sceau était apposé dans le Haut et le Bas-Canada. Parmi les responsabilités connexes du secrétaire civil, il y avait l'enregistrement des demandes et les recommandations pour les nominations à divers postes, en particulier celles des juges, ainsi que la supervision de la Cour des requêtes. Bien que les lettres patentes, les commissions, les mandats et les autres documents délivrés sous le grand sceau de la province étaient préparés par le bureau du secrétaire et registraire de la province qui avait la garde de ce sceau, c'est le secrétaire civil qui les soumettait au gouverneur pour sa signature.
Cette collection contient un index analytique sur fiches des documents accumulés par le secrétaire civil dans le cadre de ses fonctions qui se rapportent à l'attribution des commissions et à la gestion des nominations à divers postes. Ils ont été regroupés dans diverses séries : demandes et recommandations, obligations et certificats, correspondance de l'inspecteur des permis, documents se rapportant à la Cour des requêtes et demandes de commissions de notaires.
Finding Aid 1809 is available on microfilm, reels H-1126-H-1128.
The shelf lists in the Guide for RG 5 identify the reel numbers for the volumes which have been microfilmed and provide descriptive detail to the volume level for all series. Some volumes include an index or table of contents. MSS2434 (Electronic)
Textual records Finding Aid 1809 is a nominal index to the marriage bonds (volumes 13-44 of series B 9). Abstracts of the bonds were published by T.B. Wilson through Hunterdon House of Lambertville, N.Y. in 1985. MSS1809 (Paper)
Textual records The nominal index cards for the medical licence applications (volumes 61-68) and for the bonds of certain public officials (volumes 71-78) were incorporated into the General Index.
From record: Records accumulated by the Civil Secretary in fulfilment of his duties relating to the issuance of licences and the management of appointments to office have been organized into series of applications and recommendations (B 7), bonds and certificates (B 9), correspondence of the Inspector of Licences (B 10), documents relating to the Court of Requests (B 29) and applications for licences as notaries public (B 17). All of these are closely linked to other series.
Correspondence relating to the issuance of licences and to fees paid, accounts and returns of licences issued, bonds and certificates of applicants for licences and related documents of 1801-1867 form a series separate from the Upper Canada Sundries (A 1) and the Provincial Secretary's numbered files (C 1). The records are arranged in sub-series by type of document submitted or licence applied for, and include reports to the Civil Secretary of licences issued by the Collector of Customs. Registers of bonds posted and licences issued, compiled by the Provincial Secretary and Registrar or by the Civil Secretary, and a number of indexes to those registers, are found in RG 68. Through the General Index of Commissions in RG 68 it is possible to trace records in RG 68 and some bonds and certificates in RG 5, B 9, since the latter exhibit numbers assigned by the Registrar.
The marriage bonds (volumes 13-44) are available on microfilm, reels C-6777-C-6791. We are not allowed to scan the bonds

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