| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the services therein mentioned. Passed 4th April 1842. |
5 Victoria Chapter 37 |
1842 |
This act awards money to various persons for their services to the government and for local infrastructure projects. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1842. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1842. |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the Services therein mentioned. Passed 26th March 1841. |
4 Victoria Chapter 36 |
1841 |
This act appropriates part of the public revenue for the payment of various private services. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1841. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1841. |
| An Act to continue and amend an Act, intituled “An Act for the relief of Old Soldiers of the Revolutionary War and their Widows.” Passed 19th March 1841. |
4 Victoria Chapter 16 |
1841 |
This act continues prior legislation for the relief of veterans of the Revolutionary War and their widows. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1841. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1841. |
| An Act to Amend the Militia Law of that part of this Province formerly constituting the Province of Upper Canada. 17th August 1841. |
4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 2 |
1841 |
Act to Amend Militia Law. Allows for exemption of Quakers, Mennonits, and Tunkers from the Militia as long as a certificate of religious practice is provided and they pay annually ten shillings in peacetime and five shillings in times of conflict to the Town Assessor. The money is used for roads and highways. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting a Pension to the Widow and Children of the late William Kerry, who was killed in the service of Her Majesty. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 66 |
1840 |
This act grants a pension to the widow and children of the late William Kerry, who was killed in an attempt to capture american brigands who had crossed the border into Upper Canada. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the services therein mentioned. Passed 31st March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 59 |
1840 |
This act awards sums of money to various persons for their service to the government and for various local infrastructure projects. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act to provide for the relief of William Kingsmill and William Chisholm, Esquires. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 54 |
1840 |
This act grants sums of money to William Kingsmill and William Chisholm, militia men who participated in the suppression of the rebellion of 1837. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide more effectually for the safe storing and keeping of Gunpowder within and near the City and Town of Montreal. |
3 Victoria Chapter 33 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance outlines several rules and restrictions on the manner in which gunpowder can be stored in Montréal. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make permanent an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to amend and continue the Act granting Militia Pensions.” Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 28 |
1840 |
This act continues and makes perpetual an act passed in 1835. It concerns pensions for militia members and was passed after being petitioned by veterans of the war of 1812. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act authorising the payment of Pensions to Militia-men, and Widows of deceased Militia-men, under certain restrictions, and for other purposes therein-mentioned. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 27 |
1840 |
This act establishes a board of three people to determine whether veterans of the war of 1812 should receive a pension due to their age and inability to work. It defines further rules for those receiving said pensions, whether they be veterans or the widows of veterans. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to amend a certain Ordinance therein mentioned relative to the Militia of this Province. |
3 Victoria Chapter 26 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance amends the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to provide for the better defence of the Province, and to regulate the Militia thereof,” as regards the annual muster of the companies of the Militia. This Ordinance is to remain in force until 1843. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act in addition to an Act, intituled “An Act to repeal all the Laws now in force for the organization and regulation of the Militia and to make further provisions for the same.” Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 21 |
1840 |
This act extends the terms of an 1837 for regulating the militia until 1845. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Ordinance to render permanent certain Ordinances therein mentioned, and to amend one of the said Ordinances. |
3 Victoria Chapter 16 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance makes various Ordinances, listed, permanent and amends certain sections of a number of them. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise Her Majesty to take Possession of Lands for the erection of Fortifications in this Province, under certain restrictions. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 16 |
1840 |
This act makes it legal for the crown to acquire and/or appropriate privately-owned lands for the purpose of building fortifications. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the first year of Her Majesty's reign, entitled, “An Act to protect the Inhabitants of this Province, against lawless aggressions from Subjects of Foreign Countries at peace with Her Majesty.” Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 12 |
1840 |
This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1838, which makes it possible for the lieutenant governor to assemble the militia to defend the province in cases where foreign nations who do not currently have a peace agreement with Britain commit acts of aggression against the province. The amendments primarily concern the form of punishments for those convicted of treason in these cases, and prescribe capital punishment for those found guilty of treasonous acts (or felony in cases of foreign non-subjects participating in acts of aggression within the province while their home country is at peace with Britain). |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance further to continue for a limited time, an Ordinance passed in the first year of Her Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Ordinance to provide for the better defence of this Province, and to regulate the Militia thereof.” |
3 Victoria Chapter 11 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, "An Ordinance to provide for the better defence of this Province, and to regulate the Militia thereof," which is to remain in force until 1843. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to render permanent certain Ordinances therein mentioned, providing for the indemnification of persons who may have acted in the suppression of unlawful assemblies or of Treasonable practices, and for the attainder of persons against whom sentences may have been given by Courts Martial. |
3 Victoria Chapter 10 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance makes several ordinances related to the arrest of people suspected of treasonable practices or acting in defence of the Province, permanent. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, “An Act for the exemplary punishment of all and every person and persons who shall seduce, or attempt to seduce, or aid or assist, or attempt to aid or assist any Soldier to Desert His Majesty's Service, or who shall harbor, conceal, receive or assist any Deserter from such Service,” and to make further provision for the punishment of such offenders. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 3 |
1840 |
This act repeals an act first passed in 1804 which describes the punishment(s) to befall civilians who encouraged or assisted a soldier to desert. Punishment was to consist of both imprisonment and fines, and replaces it with new laws which are very similar. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue, for a limited time, a certain Ordinance, relative to the seizing and detaining for a limited time of Gunpowder, Arms, Weapons, Lead and Munitions of War. |
3 Victoria Chapter 1 (Session 5) |
1839 |
This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to authorize the seizing and detaining, for a limited time, of Gunpowder, Arms, Weapons, Lead and Munitions of War,” which is to remain in force until 1840. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to increase the Salary of the Adjutant General of Militia of this Province. Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 69 |
1839 |
This act increases the salary of the Adjutant General of the provincial militia by three hundred and sixty five pounds annually. |
Early Canadiana Online |