| An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for Queen’s County, to lease a certain Lot of Land in the Town Plat of Gagetown. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 49 |
1840 |
This act allows for Queen's County officials to rent a parcel of land originally set aside for a court house for other uses and use the money to benefit the county. |
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 extend the provisions of the fourth Section of an Act, intituled “An Act to amend the Act to provide for the collection of the Revenue of the Province,” to Woodstock in the County of Carleton. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 46 |
1840 |
This act amends the terms of an 1837 to allow for the deputy treasurer of Woodstock to appoint a deputy. |
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 confirm and regulate certain Sales of Land for Taxes, in the District of Ottawa. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 46 |
1840 |
This act validates the sale of lands in the district of Ottawa that have been sold to pay taxes. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act authorising the levying of an additional Tax on the District of Dalhousie, for the purpose of building a Gaol and Court House therein. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 45 |
1840 |
This act authorises the district of Dalhousie to raise a tax on all its townships in order to build a district jail and court house. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the levying an additional Rate on the Inhabitants of the Midland District, for the payment of the Debt of the District, and for other purposes therein-mentioned. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 44 |
1840 |
This act permits the raising of a tax on the inhabitants of the Midland district to raise money for the building of a wall around the district prison. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the raising of a sum of money, in the District of Niagara, for the purpose of relieving the said District from Debt. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 43 |
1840 |
This act authorises the magistrates of the district of Niagara to raise a tax on the inhabitants in order to liquidate a debt. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace of the County of Gloucester to assess the said County for repairing the Public Buildings therein. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 42 |
1840 |
This act allows for Gloucester County officials to raise money to repair any public buildings in the county they see fit. |
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 authorize the Justices of the Peace in and for the City and County of Saint John to erect a building in the said City for a Common Gaol, and to raise a sum of money for erecting and completing the same. Passed 25th march, 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 38 |
1840 |
This act allows Saint John officials to raise money to build a county gaol. |
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 authorize Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace of King’s County to erect a Building in the said County for a Common Gaol, and to assess the Inhabitants towards defraying the expenses thereof. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 37 |
1840 |
This act allows for Kings County officials to raise money to erect a new county gaol. |
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 continue the Act to provide for the collection of County and Parish Rates. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 34 |
1840 |
This act continues an 1837 act regulating the collection of county rates 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 make good a certain sum of money therein mentioned, advanced in payment of certain indispensable Expenses of the Civil Government of this Province, between the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. |
3 Victoria Chapter 23 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance provides a sum not exceeding forty-nine thousand and fifteen pounds thirteen shillings and seven pence to cover the expenses of the Civil Government. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and make perpetual parts of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, “An Act to alter the Laws now in force for granting Licenses to Innkeepers, and to give to the Justices of the Peace, in General Quarter Sessions assembled for the respective Districts, authority to regulate the Duties hereafter to be paid on such Licenses,” and for other purposes therein-mentioned. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 21 |
1840 |
This act continues and makes perpetual certain parts of an act passed in 1830, which enacts certain provisions regarding innkeepers' licenses and specifies regarding the granting of licenses to innkeepers, and stipulates that revenue raised through the sale of such licenses be used to upgrade roads and bridges. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Supplies for the Civil Government of this Colony, and other purposes. (Passed 20th April, 1840.) |
3 Victoria - Chapter 10 |
1840 |
This act allows the government to withdraw a sum in order to pay certain expenses related to the operation of civil offices. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the time for making Returns and Payments by Collectors, and other persons receiving the Public Revenues of this Province, and for other purposes therein-mentioned. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 9 |
1840 |
This act regulates when officers of the districts throughout the province will receive payments for various fees and fines required by law, and details when an account of these fees and fines will be made to the Receiver-General of the province. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to Her Majesty a Sum of Money for defraying the expenses of the Civil Government of this Colony, and for other purposes for the Year ending the 20th June, 1841. (Passed 29th April, 1840.) |
3 Victoria - Chapter 9 |
1840 |
This act grants a salary for the year to those who have served as civil servants to the province. The salaries are granted to the position rather than named individuals. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make further provision towards defraying the expenses of the Civil Government of this Colony by raising certain Duties. (Passed 29th April, 1840.) |
3 Victoria - Chapter 8 |
1840 |
This act grants specific sums of money as a salary to those who have served the provincial government in various offices. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the Act to provide for the better assessment of County and Parish Rates. Passed 25th March 1840.
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3 Victoria Chapter 7 |
1840 |
This act continues an 1837 for assessing parish rates 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 Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act to revest in the Treasury the Sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, granted to Her Majesty under an Act passed in the first year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, and remaining unappropriated, and to appropriate the same for the purpose of facilitating a communication by Steam between the Port of Saint John's and the Port of Halifax in the Province of Nova Scotia, and to make further provision for facilitating communication by Steam between the said Ports of Saint John's and Halifax. (Passed 29th April, 1840.) |
3 Victoria - Chapter 4 |
1840 |
This is the repeal of an act passed in 1839, which appropriated a revenue to create a transportation service between Newfoundland and Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Granting to Her Majesty certain Duties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into this Colony and its Dependencies. (Passed 29th April, 1840.) |
3 Victoria - Chapter 2 |
1840 |
This act specifies various duties and taxes to be collected on goods imported into the province in order to generate a revenue for the provincial government. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act imposing Duties for raising a Revenue. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 1 |
1840 |
This act introduces duties on several imported items to raise provincial revenues, and makes exceptions for those items that are duty free. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |