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Gagging Bill Hist. 
a bill passed in Upper Canada in 1819, prohibiting the holding of political conventions.
- 1824 Though I were not to speak of the gagging bill, yet a disgrace to our statute book.
- 1832 Were the disgraceful Gagging Bill of 1818--the appropriation of THREE THOUSAND POUNDS of the people's money to Governor Gore, in 1816, for the purpose of buying a service of Plate--in accordance with the views and wishes of the yeomanry of Middlesex?
- 1893 The "Gagging Bill" of of 1819, as "the Act to prevent certain meetings within the Province," was called, was repealed in 1820.
- 1824 Though I were not to speak of the gagging bill, yet a disgrace to our statute book.