Passage of the Constitutional Act 1791

The Constitutional Act 1791 (31 Geo. 3. c. 31) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed during the reign of George III. The parliament had begun and been held at Westminster on 25 November 1790, being the First Session of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain, and the statute was printed in London by Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan in 1791. A bill dated 7 March 1791 sought to repeal certain parts of the fourteenth-year act for the government of the Province of Quebec and to make further provision for its government. The act reformed Quebec's government to accommodate, among other Loyalists, the 10,000 United Empire Loyalists who had arrived from the United States following the American Revolution, and it repealed the Quebec Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3. c. 83).