Legislation by Concept: Elections & Public Office, Financial Regulation, Infrastructure
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to provide for an Encrease of the number of Overseers of Highways, Pounds, and Pound-keepers, in the respective Townships throughout this Province. Passed 6th March, 1830. | 11 George IV – Chapter 7 | 1830 | This Act allows for the selection of up to thirty Overseers of Highways for each township in the province, along with one pound-keeper for each pound. The Act also specifies to which pound(s) seized property may be conveyed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend a certain Act passed in the fifth year of His Majesty’s. Reign, for the purpose of consolidating the Laws relating to Elections. (26th March, 1830.) | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 50 | 1830 | This Act modifies an oath or affirmation required under the 1825 Act, “An Act to repeal certain Acts therein mentioned and to consolidate the Laws relating to the election of Members to serve in the Assembly of this Province, and to the duty of Returning Officers and for other purposes.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the relief of His Majesty’s Roman Catholic Subjects in this Province. Passed 8th March, 1830. | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 33 (Session 1) | 1830 | This act makes an Imperial act for Catholic emancipation applicable to New Brunswick. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1830. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1830. |
| An Act for the Relief of His Majesty’s Roman Catholic Subjects. 18th April, 1829. | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 7 (London 1829) | 1830 | This act introduces Catholic emancipation laws passed by the Imperial parliament into New Brunswick law, granting Roman Catholic subjects full legal and political equality with Protestants. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1830. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1830. |
| An Act for continuing the Provincial Parliament in case of the death or demise of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors. | 9 George IV Chapter 74 | 1829 | Under this Act, the Provincial Parliament is not be dissolved, (that is, to be allowed to continue to meet or to convene) in the event of the Sovereign’s death. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make a new and more convenient subdivision of the Province into Counties, for the purpose of effecting a more equal Representation thereof in the Assembly than heretofore. | 9 George IV Chapter 73 | 1829 | This Act redefines the boundaries of several counties in the Province of Lower Canada, for the purpose of electing Members to serve in the Assembly, as the boundaries defined in 1792 have become inconvenient as new settlements have formed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend and further to continue, for a limited time, an Act passed in the fifth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled “An Act to continue, for a limited time, and amend certain Acts therein-mentioned relating to the Trial of controverted Elections of Members to serve in the Assembly of this Province.” (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 61 | 1829 | This Act continues and amends the 1825 “Act An Act to continue for a further limited time and amend certain Acts therein mentioned, relating to the Trial of Controverted Elections of Members to serve in the Assembly of this Province.” This Act makes amendments to the processes by which an undue Election can be ascertained. This Act is to remain in force until 1834. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to authorize the Inhabitants of the Fief Gros Bois, in the county of Saint Maurice, to make Regulations for the Common of the said Fief.” (14th March, 1829.) | 9 George IV Chapter 32 | 1829 | This Act outlines the process by which a Chair and Trustees are to be elected to govern the Common as a body politic and corporate by the name “The Chairman and Trustees of the Common of Gros Bois,” and how future elections are to take place. This Act is to remain in force until 1850. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relative to the Election of Charter Officers for Guy’s Ward and Brook’s Ward, in the City of Saint John. Passed 10th February 1829. | 9 & 10 George IV Chapter 18 | 1829 | This act repeals a section of an 1803 act concerning the goverance of two wards in Saint John due to their increaing population. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1829. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1829. |
| An Act to regulate the Trials or controverted Elections, or Returns of Members to serve in General Assembly. Passed 5th April, 1828. | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 37 (1828) | 1828 | This act codifies how contested election results may be presented to and investigated by the House. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1830. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1830. |
| An Act further to amend the Act for regulating Elections of Representatives in General Assembly. Passed 5th April, 1828. | 10 & 11 George IV Chapter 36 (1828) | 1828 | This act clarifies the property qualifications for those seeking to run for office, the calling of byelections, and the terms for eligability to vote in the city of Saint John. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1830. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1830. |
| An Act concerning Elections in the County of Cumberland. | 8 George IV – Chapter 18 | 1827 | This act describes how elections in Cumberland county are to be held, and procedures to be followed including polling and notice to be given. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Continue and Amend the Law now in force for the Trial of Controverted Elections. Passed 17th, Feb. 1827. | 8 George IV – Chapter 5 | 1827 | A continuation and amendment of an act first passed in 1823, which details how the province's electoral officials shall resolve issues around contested elections. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend so much of an Act of the Thirty-first year of His late Majesty, as relates to the Election of Members to serve in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada. (26th May, 1826.) | 7 George IV Chapter 68 | 1827 | This act governs who can vote for members of the Legislative assemblies of Upper and Lower Canada, and who can be elected to the legislative assemblies of the same. This act was appended to the legislative acts of the assembly of Upper Canada of 1827. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend so much of an Act of the Thirty-first Year of His late Majesty, as relates to the Election of Members to service in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada. 26th May, 1826. | 7 George IV – Chapter 68 (1826) | 1826 | An amendment to a past act relating to elections of representatives to the Legislative Assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal certain Acts therein-mentioned, and to consolidate the Laws relating to the Election of Members to serve in the Assembly of this Province, and to the duty of Returning Officers, and for other purposes. (22d. March, 1825.) | 5 George IV – Chapter 33 | 1825 | An Act to repeal and replace several defective Acts including the 1807 Act, "An Act to provide Returning Officers for the Election of Knights, Citizens and Burgesses to serve in the House of Assembly, and to regulate Elections to be held for that purpose," and the several Acts that amended it. This Act sets new restrictions for who may serve as Returning Officers, and outlines how they are to be appointed, their terms for their service, and duties. Several new regulations for elections are set in place and multiple oaths and forms follow the Act's articles. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a further limited time and amend certain Acts therein mentioned, relating to the trial of controverted Elections of Members to serve in the Assembly of this Province. {22d. March, 1825.) | 5 George IV – Chapter 32 | 1825 | An Act to continue and amend two Acts: an Act from 1808, "An Act to regulate the trial of controverted Elections or returns of Members to serve in the House of Assembly of Lower-Canada, an Act from 1818, “An Act to facilitate the trial of controverted Elections or returns of Members to serve in the House of Assembly,” which are to remain in force except as amended by this Act until 1829. The sum to be submitted in consequence of a Petition to the House of Assembly against the regularity of an Election is amended. This Act includes a form of recognizance that is to be submitted when such petitions are filed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, made and passed in the fifty-seventh year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for regulating Elections of Representatives to serve in General Assembly.” | 4 George IV – Chapter 22 | 1824 | An amendment to an 1817 act, which repeals and replaces several acts relating to the election of representatives to serve in the General Assembly, including how and where elections should be held. The amendment pertains to the powers held by the sheriff or other officer to appoint opening and closing times for polls. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain an Act passed in the second year of His Majesty’s Reign, Chapter Fourth, relating to the Returning Officers’ duty and to the Elections of Members to serve in the House of Assembly of this Province. (9th March, 1824.) | 4 George IV Chapter 8 | 1824 | An Act to amend and explain an Act from 1822, “An Act to amend certain parts of an Act passed in the forty-seventh year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled, ‘An Act to provide Returning Officers for the Elections of Knights, Citizens and Burgesses to serve in the House of Assembly, and to regulate Elections to be held for that purpose, and more effectually to prevent illegal practices in the Elections of Members to serve in the said Assembly, and for further securing the freedom of such Elections.” Under this Act entries to be made in the Poll Book by the Returning Officer, at every election of any Member or Members to serve in the House of Assembly for this Province, as specified in the first clause or section of the former Act are to be made in accordance with certain instructions described in this Act. The form of the poll book is included at the end of the Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Repeal part of the Second Clause of an Act passed in the Thirty-Third Year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act to Provide for the Nomination and Appointment of Parish and Town Officers, within this Province and to make more Effectual Provision for obtaining an Accurate Census of the Population of this Province. Passed Jan. 19th, 1824. | 4 George IV – Chapter 7 | 1824 | This act specifies how census data is to be collected by assessors appointed by the townships or parishes of the province, and what information they are required to collect. It also specifies the penalties to be enacted upon assessors who neglect to perform their duties. | Early Canadiana Online |