| An Act to authorize the raising of One Thousand Pounds, by an additional rate or levy of One Half-penny in the Pound, upon the Inhabitants of the Western District, for the purpose of relieving the said District from debt, and of enabling the Justices of the Peace of that District to repair and improve the Gaol at Sandwich. Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 32 |
1839 |
This act raises a levy on the inhabitants of the western district in order to pay off the debt of the district as well as to raise money to make repairs to the district jail. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue, for a limited time, a certain Ordinance, relative to Persons charged with High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, and Treasonable Practices. |
2 Victoria Chapter 31 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to authorize the apprehension and detention of persons charged with High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, and Treasonable Practices, and to suspend for a limited time, as to such persons, a certain Ordinance therein mentioned, and for other purposes,” until 1840. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend the period for imposing an additional Rate upon the intended new District of Colborne. Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 31 |
1839 |
This act extends certain clauses from an act passed in 1837 which created the district of Colborne and which concerns the creation of tax rates in order to erect a court house and jail. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further amendment of the Criminal Law. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 31 |
1839 |
This act stipulates a minimum two year sentence for anyone convicted of assulting a peace officer. |
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 extend the provisions of an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to authorise the erection of the County of Oxford into a separate District, by the name of the District of Brock.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 29 |
1839 |
This act extends certain provisions from the 1837 act which created the district of Brock, allowing the district more time to repay the amount loaned to build their district court house and jail. |
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 erect certain Townships now forming parts of the Districts of Bathurst, Johnstown and Ottawa, into a separate District, to he called the District of Dalhousie.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 28 |
1839 |
This act amends an act passed in 1838 which established the district of Dalhousie. This amendment defines the grounds which will hold the jail and court house, which had not at that point been determined. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide for the more speedy Attainder of Persons Indicted for High Treason, who have fled from the Province, or remain concealed therein, to escape from Justice. |
2 Victoria Chapter 27 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, when persons indicted for High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices are not found and do not surrender themselves within three months, they are to be adjudged of the crime they were indicted for, under the processes outlined. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to abolish the practice of permitting Defendants to Traverse Indictments, for misdemeanors, before Courts of Oyer and Terminer, in this Province. |
2 Victoria Chapter 23 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, defendants are required to plead to any indictments for misdemeanors at the trial in Courts of Oyer and Terminer in which the indictment is found, unless good cause is found for putting off the trial. |
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 Ordinance for the better information of the Government and of the Public, concerning Prosecutions brought before Justices of the Peace. |
2 Victoria Chapter 20 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance outlines the form of quarterly returns Justices of the Peace are to produce and send to the Clerk of the Peace for their district. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to amend a certain Act therein-mentioned, and for the more effectual Punishment of such persons as shall seduce Soldiers to Desert. |
2 Victoria Chapter 16 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance repeals and replaces the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to declare and ascertain the period when the Laws and Ordinances made and passed by the Governor or person authorised to execute the Commission of Governor, and Special Council of this Province, shall take effect,” relating to how persons found to have persuaded any soldier or soldiers to desert or leave service are to be prosecuted and sentenced. This Ordinance is to be in force until 1840. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| 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 provide for reporting and publishing the Decisions of the Supreme Court.” Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 12 |
1839 |
This act continues the terms of an act allowing for the publishing of the decisions of the Supreme Court 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 Act to repeal the Act establishing the times of holding the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Courts of Common Pleas in the County of Northumberland, and for the enlarging the times of the Sittings of the said Courts, and for making other and better regulations concerning the same. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 11 |
1839 |
This act allows for certain Northumberland County courts to sit at more convenient times. |
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 repeal so much of an Act of the Parliament of Great-Britain, of the twenty-fifth year of the Reign of His late Majesty, George the Second, as directs the Period of the Execution of persons convicted of the crime of Murder, and for other purposes. |
2 Victoria Chapter 9 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance repeals sections of the former Act, "An Act for the better preventing the horrid crime of Murder,” and provides that the sentence of death can be pronounced after conviction of murder as after conviction for other capital offences. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| 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 Act to continue and make perpetual An Act passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, “An Act to repeal an Act passed in the fifty-fourth year of His Majesty’s reign, entitled ‘An Act to supply, in certain cases, the want of County Courts, in this Province, and to make further provision for proceeding to Outlawry, in certain cases therein mentioned.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 7 |
1839 |
This act continues an act first passed in 1815, which repealed parts of an act concerned with the establishments of county courts, including new forms for the handling of criminal justice by counties. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled “An Act to continue and amend the law for Attaching the Property of Absconding Debtors.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 5 |
1839 |
This act continues an act passed in 1835, which was in itself an amendment to an act passed in 1832, which described how the property of absconding debtors could be seized. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue in force, amend and make perpetual, an Act passed in the fourth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled “An Act to provide for the Summary Punishment of Petty Trespasses, and other offences.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 4 |
1839 |
This act continues an act first passed in 1634, which laid out the punishment for specific criminal acts, such as assault and trespass. |
Early Canadiana Online |