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- ↑ Proclamation of July 16, 1792
- ↑ An act for building a gaol and court house in every district within this province, and for altering the names of the said districts , S.U.C. 1792, c. 8, s. 3
- ↑ An act for the better division of this province , S.U.C. 1798, c. 5, s. 15
- ↑ An Act for better defining the limits of the Counties and Districts in Upper Canada, for erecting certain new Townships, for detaching Townships from some Counties and attaching them to others, and for other purposes relative to the division of Upper Canada into Townships, Counties and Districts , S.Prov.C. 1845, c. 7, Sch. B
- ↑ An Act to repeal part of an Act passed in thirty-eighth year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An act for the better division of this province," and to make further provision for the division of the same into Counties and Districts , S.U.C. 1821, c. 3, s. 5
- ↑ An Act for abolishing the Territorial Division of Upper-Canada into Districts, and for providing temporary Unions of Counties for Judicial and other purposes, and for the future dissolutions of such Unions, as the increase of wealth and population may require , S.Prov.C. 1849, c. 78, Sch. A, B
- ↑ An Act to amend "An Act respecting the Territorial Division of Upper Canada" , S.Prov.C. 1860, c. 39, s. 1