| An Act to authorise the Magistrates of the Midland District to borrow a sum of money, to build a wall around the Gaol and Court House of the Midland District. Passed 11th May, 1839.
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2 Victoria – Chapter 43 |
1839 |
This act authorises the justices of the peace of the Midland district to borrow a sum of money to build a wall and a gatehouse around the district jail in Kingston in order to better secure the prisoners. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to increase the Capital Stock of the Cobourg Harbour Company, and to extend the period for completing the same. Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 42 |
1839 |
This act allows the Cobourg Harbour Company to increase their capital stocks to ten thousand pounds in order to gain them more funds with which to complete their project, and allows them more time for completion of the building of the habour at Cobourg. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to incorporate certain persons under the style and title of the Waterloo Bridge Company.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 40 |
1839 |
This act amends an act passed in 1838 which incorporated the Waterloo Bridge Company. The amendment concerns the width of the bridge being built. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons under the style and title of “The President, Directors and Company, of the Bayfield Harbour.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 39 |
1839 |
This act incorporates the Company of the Bayfield Harbour, authorising them to survey and acquire land in order to build a harbour and all associated structures on the waterfront at Bayfield. The company is also authorised to collect tolls on incoming vessels once the harbour is completed. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance for erecting a Court House with proper Offices at Sherbrooke, in the District of Saint Francis, and for defaying the expense thereof. |
2 Victoria Chapter 38 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance makes provision for the construction of a new Court House in the District of Saint-François at Sherbrooke, as described. The Ordinance also makes the Village of Sherbrooke a Town. Instructions for the Court House's construction and allowable expenses are outlined. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide for the improvement, during the winter season, of the principal Post Roads from various parts of the Province to Montreal, and for other purposes. |
2 Victoria Chapter 34 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance restricts access to winter roads, as outlined, including the types of vehicles allowed on the roads listed, to better preserve Post Roads during the winter. This Ordinance is to remain in force until 1842. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for making and maintaining a Canal across Grimross Neck, in Queen’s County. Passed 23d March 1839.
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2 Victoria Chapter 34 |
1839 |
This act allows for the construction of a canal across Grimross Neck in Queen's County and creates penalties for those who damage it. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to provide for the government and regulation of the House of Correction for the City and County of Saint John. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 30 |
1839 |
This act allows for the province to hire commissioners for the Saint John House of Correction and spells out what their duties and powers are to be. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to assign duties to certain Commissioners, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 27 |
1839 |
This act calls for the return of receipts and vouchers by the commissioners of public works such as road improvements to the legislative assembly. Should any commissioners fail to make a proper report of their expenditures, no further funding will be approved for their project and the commissioner in question risks dismissal. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the seventh year of the, reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled “An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of money, for the erection of certain Light Houses within this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned.” Passed May 11th, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 22 |
1839 |
This act places a duty of one shilling per ton on vessels in order to help pay the interest on a loan made by the crown to help build lighthouses in the province. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte to levy an assessment for the building a new Court House in the said County. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 22 |
1839 |
This act allows for Charlotte County officials to raise a tax to construct a new county court house. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to erect part of the Parish of Wickham, in Queen’s County into a separate and distinct Town or Parish. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 21 |
1839 |
This act establishes a new parish in Queen's County, Johnston, and accords its powers and authorities as all others. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to divide the County of Restigouche into five Towns or Parishes and to define the boundaries thereof. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 19 |
1839 |
This act divides Restigouche County into five towns and parishes and awards them the same powers and authorities as all others. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to regulate Line Fences and Water-courses, and to repeal so much of an Act passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, ‘An Act to provide for the nomination and appointment of Parish and Town Officers within this Province, as relates to the office of Fence Viewers being discharged by Overseers of Highways and Roads.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 18 |
1839 |
This act continues an act first passed in 1834, which amended an act passed in 1793. The original act specified the parties responsible for the repairing and maintenance of fences on shared property lines, and the amendments have further defined who is responsible for which costs and who is responsible for settling disputes. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, “An Act to repeal an Ordinance of the Province of Quebec, passed in the twenty-fifth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Ordinance concerning Land Surveyors, and the admeasurement of Lands”; and also to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the thirty-eighth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to ascertain and establish on a permanent footing the Boundary Lines of the different Townships in this Province, and further to regulate the manner in which Lands are hereafter to be Surveyed.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 17 |
1839 |
This act continues and amends two separate acts regarding the surveying of land to better settle disputes arising from past surveys of town lots. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to erect the Eastern part of the Parish of Portland, in the County of Saint John, into a separate and distinct Town or Parish. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 15 |
1839 |
This act creates a new parish in Saint John County, Simonds, and awards it the same power and authority as all others. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for the County of Restigouche to assess the said County for erecting a Court House and Gaol therein. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 13 |
1839 |
This act allows for the construction of a county court house and gaol for Restigouche County. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to continue an Act, intituled “An Act to authorize the extension of the Gaol Limits in the City and County of Saint John.” Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 9 |
1839 |
This act extends the term of an 1837 act to allow for the extension Saint John gaols until 1845. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Ordinance to amend the Act passed in the thirty-sixth, year of the Reign of King George the Third, chapter nine, commonly called the Road Act. |
2 Victoria Chapter 7 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, Grand Voyers for each district are allowed to appoint Deputies as deemed necessary, in addition to Surveyors of Roads, under the terms as outlined. Their duties relating to the inspection, opening, and maintenance of roads are described. This Ordinance is to remain in force until 1842. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue “An Act to provide for the erection of Fences with Gates across Highways, leading through Intervale Lands in Queen’s County and the County of Sunbury, where the same may be found necessary,” and to extend the provisions of the same to King’s County. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 7 |
1839 |
This act allows for the continuation of two previous acts allows for the erection of fences and gates across highways in Queen's and Sunbury Counties until 1845. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |