Legislation by Concept: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Public Health
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to continue, for a limited period, the certain Acts therein mentioned. 18th September, 1841. | 4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 23 | 1841 | An Act to continue various acts of former Upper Canada including encouraging destroying wolves, providing relief for insane destitute persons, and establishing agricultural societies. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance further to continue, for a limited time, certain Acts therein mentioned. | 3 Victoria Chapter 15 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance continues several Acts, listed, which are to remain in force until 1845. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide for the completion of certain Public Works, for the improvement of the Internal Communications, and for the encouragement of Agriculture, and for other purposes. | 2 Victoria Chapter 53 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance provides several sums, listed, to support or provide for various projects and organisations, such as for completing public roads, the Chambly Canal, and bridges, and for the encouragement of agriculture. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to appropriate certain sums of money therein mentioned, for the encouragement of Agriculture. | 1 Victoria Chapter 18 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Ordinance provides several sums to be distributed to the Agricultural Societies of the Districts of Quèbec, Montrèal, and Trois-Rivières, and the Inferior District of Saint-François as listed. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish Agricultural Societies, and to encourage Agriculture in the several Districts of this Province. Passed 4th March, 1837. | 7 William IV – Chapter 23 | 1837 | This act establishes agricultural societies in each district in order to encourage agricultural development throughout the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, intituled “An Act to prevent Nuisances within the City of Saint John, and Parish of Portland in the County of Saint John.” Passed 1st March 1837. | 7 William IV Chapter 21 (Session 1) | 1837 | An amendment to an act preventing the free range of livestock and dogs within the city of St John, and the regulation of the movement of livestock within the city as well as the penalties for those who would allow their animals to wander at large. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal a certain Act therein mentioned, and more effectually to remedy divers abuses prejudicial to Agriculture. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 56 | 1836 | This Act repeals and replaces the 1833 Act, “An Act to repeal a certain Act therein mentioned, and to provide more effectually for the remedy of divers abuses prejudicial to Agriculture." This Act defines penalties against those who commit trespasses, wrongs, and abuses prejudicial to Agricultural Improvement, including carrying away, breaking down or injuring fences on land not belonging to them, and cutting down or otherwise destroying any fences, trees, bushes or shrubs, without the leave of the land's proprietor. Fines and exceptions to this Act are outlined. The Act also describes how violent or misbehaving animals like dogs, horses, rams, or cattle, are to be handled, and penalties if owners do not follow the terms of this Act and sets several regulations of the treatment of servants and apprentices. Other restrictions on land maintenance including drains, weeds, and fences are outlined, including how these terms should be enforced. This Act is to remain in force until 1845. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for preserving, for the purposes of Husbandry, the Grass growing on Beaches, in the District of Quebec. (21st March, 1836.) | 6 William IV Chapter 55 | 1836 | Under this Act, the proprietors of the land bordering the Saint Lawrence below Quebec are allowed to cut and cure the grass on the beaches to the exclusion of all other people, and livestock are not to be permitted to graze on this land. The limits of this Act and penalties for those who act in defiance of this Act are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act imposing duties upon certain articles imported into this Province for the purpose of Revenue. Passed 16th March 1836. | 6 William IV Chapter 37 | 1836 | This act introduces new duties on several imported items. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick Passed in the year 1836. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1836. |
| An Act in amendment of the Act relating to Trespasses. Passed 8th March 1836. | 6 William IV Chapter 29 | 1836 | This act allows for justices of the peace to create new fines to punish livestock trespass. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick Passed in the year 1836. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1836. |
| An Act to regulate the fencing, occupation and grazing of the several marshes, lowlands and meadows in County of Westmorland. Passed 8th March 1836. | 6 William IV Chapter 21 | 1836 | This act creates regulations for grazing on the common land meadows in Westmorland County, and allows for construction of fences on the same. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick Passed in the year 1836. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1836. |
| An Act to make perpetual an Act, intituled An Act to provide for the punishment of cruelty to animals. Passed 8th March 1836. | 6 William IV Chapter 19 | 1836 | This act makes an 1834 act for the prevention of cruelty to animals perpetual. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick Passed in the year 1836. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1836. |
| An Act to amend and continue for a limited time an Act passed in the eleventh year of His late Majesty's Reign, entitled “An Act to encourage the establishment of Agricultural Societies in the several Districts of this Province." Passed 16th April, 1835. | 5 William IV – Chapter 11 | 1835 | This act continues an act first passed in 1830, which provided for government funds to be made available to support agricultural societies within the province, specifying that no funds shall be granted before the officers of existing societies account for past sums granted. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for preventing the taking and using of Caplin for Manure. (8th May, 1835.) | 5 William IV Chapter 3 | 1835 | This act puts penalties in place for people who would fish large amounts of caplin for the sole purpose of using it as fertilizer, as it was deemed harmful to the fishery. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Punishment of Cruelty to Animals. Passed 22d March 1834. | 4 William IV Chapter 13 | 1834 | This act estbablishes penalties for animal creulty and how they are to be prosecuted. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1834. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1834. |
| An Act to make more ample provision for the encouragement of Agriculture. (18th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 7 | 1834 | This Act makes provisions for agricultural societies to be organised in each county in the province and outlines how these societies should function, including the the roles to be filled in each. This Act is to remain in force until 1840. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to relieve the distress under which by reason of the failure of the late Crops, the Inhabitants of certain Parishes, would otherwise labour, by assisting the said Inhabitants to procure seed to sow their Lands. (18th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 3 | 1834 | This Act makes provision to provide poor farmers in the province with seeds, as required following the near total crop failure of the last year. This Act outlines several sums to be distributed in certain parishes in the province for this purpose. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of the Inhabitants in distress, from the failure of the late Crops, in certain parts of this Province therein mentioned. (18th March 1834) | 4 William IV Chapter 1 | 1834 | This Act provides certain sums, as outlined, to many parishes in the province to provide for inhabitants made destitute by crop failures. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain an Act, intituled An Act for Ike more summary Punishment of Persons guilty of maliciously killing, maiming, disfiguring or otherwise injuring Cattle. Passed 19th March 1833. | 3 William IV – Chapter 33 | 1833 | This Act further clarifies an act for the punishing of people who injure cattle. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick passed in the year 1833. Fredericton, NB: John Simpson, Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1833. |
| An Act to repeal a certain Act therein mentioned, and to provide more effectually for the remedy of divers abuses prejudicial to Agriculture. (3d April, 1833) | 3 William IV Chapter 31 | 1833 | This Act repeals and replaces the 1830 Act, “An Act to amend an Act passed in the ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Act for the more speedy remedy of divers abuses prejudicial to Agricultural Improvements in this Province,’ and to make further provision to the same effect.” This Act outlines several regulations on land and water use, how live stock and dogs should be kept, and the manner in which disputes pertaining to agricultural practices should be settled. | Early Canadiana Online |