Legislation by Concept: 1837-1838 Rebellion, Justice System, Defence
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Ordinance for indemnifying persons who since the first day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Seven, have acted in apprehending, imprisoning, or detaining in Custody, persons suspected of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices, and in the Suppression of unlawful Assemblies, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 1 Victoria Chapter 10 (Session 1) | 1838 | Under this Ordinance, all personal actions, suits, indictments, and prosecutions against persons who apprehended, committed, imprisoned, or detained rebels or persons for High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices are to be discharged or made void, under the terms and limits outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to the Act for defining the crime of Forgery. Passed 9th March 1838. | 1 Victoria Chapter 10 | 1838 | This act expands provisions of a 1835 act prohibiting forgery to encompass more forms of writting. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1838. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1838. |
| An Act to enable the Government of this Province to extend a conditional Pardon, in certain cases, to Persons who have been concerned in the late Insurrection. Passed 6th March, 1838. | 1 Victoria – Chapter 10 | 1838 | This act allows certain people who engaged in the recent rebellion to be granted a conditional pardon; the condition is the individual in question should banished themselves from the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the more speedy attainder of persons indicted for High Treason, who have fled from this Province, or remain concealed therein, to escape from Justice. Passed 6th March, 1838. | 1 Victoria – Chapter 9 | 1838 | This act clarifies how to prosecute those who are accused of treason but who have either fled the province or who are in hiding. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue a certain Act therein mentioned, intituled, “An Act for the Transportation of certain Offenders from this Province to England, to be thence again transported to New South Wales or Van Diemen’s Land.” | 1 Victoria Chapter 8 (Session 1) | 1838 | This Act continues the 1835 Act, “An Act for the Transportation of certain Offenders from this Province to England, to be thence again transported to New South Wales or Van Diemen’s Land," which is to remain in force until 1842. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the appointment of a Master of the Rolls to the Court of Chancery in this Province, and to provide for such Officer. Passed 9th March 1838. | 1 Victoria Chapter 8 | 1838 | This act creates a procedure to appoint a Master of Rolls for the Court of Chancery. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1838. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1838. |
| An Act to amend the Law with respect to the liability of the Legal Representatives of Joint Contractors, and of Defendants on Joint Judgments. Passed 12th January, 1838. | 1 Victoria – Chapter 7 | 1838 | This act details how to proceed if one of the parties in a joint judgment should die. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal part of and amend an Act passed in the seventh year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to appoint the time and place for holding the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in each of the several Districts of this Province, and to repeal the several Laws now in force for that purpose.” Passed 12th January, 1833. | 1 Victoria – Chapter 6 | 1838 | This act repeals an amendment passed in 1836 which determined the place and time for the court of general quarter sessions of the peace as it pertains to Niagara, and appoints a new place and time for the court of general quarter sessions of the peace of Niagara. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the future erection of Gaols in this Province. Passed I2th January, 1838. | 1 Victoria – Chapter 5 | 1838 | This act regulates the building and management of jailhouses. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the services therein mentioned. Passed 9th March 1838. | 1 Victoria Chapter 4 | 1838 | This act awrds monies 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 1838. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1838. |
| An Ordinance to authorize the apprehending 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. | 1 Victoria Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1838 | Under this Ordinance, any person detained for High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices can be held without bail while it remains in force. Additionally, certain sections of “An Ordinance for securing the liberty of the subject, and for the prevention of imprisonment out of this Province" is temporarily suspended as outlined. This Ordinance is to remain in force until August next. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the more effectual and impartial Trial of Persons charged with Treason and Treasonable Practices, committed in this Province. Passed 12th January, 1838. | 1 Victoria – Chapter 2 | 1838 | This act allows the lieutenant governor of the province to assign a district for the trial of any person who has been accused of any act of treason to allow for a measure of impartiality. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the apprehending and detention of Persons suspected of High Treason, Misprision of Treason, and Treasonable Practices. Passed, 12th January, 1838. | 1 Victoria – Chapter 1 | 1838 | This act allows authorities to imprison those who are suspected of treason, so long as the basic rights of those persons are respected. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide a Salary for a Judge in Equity. Passed 4th March, 1837. | 7 William IV – Chapter 109 | 1837 | This act makes money available to pay the salary of a newly-appointed judge. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting a sum of Money to His Majesty, for the remuneration of certain Services rendered by the late Hugh C. Thompson, Esq. Passed 4th March, 1837. | 7 William IV – Chapter 102 | 1837 | This act renumerates the family of Hugh C. Thompson, who was one of the commissioners of the provincial penitentiary and died while overseeing various matters relating to its construction, before receiving payment for his work. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act providing for the support of the Provincial Penitentiary.Passed 4th March, 1837. | 7 William IV – Chapter 90 | 1837 | This act grants a sum not exceeding five thousand pounds to support the services and staff of provincial penitentiary. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish a Police in the Town of Cobourg, and to define the limits of the said Town. Passed 4th March, 1837. | 7 William IV – Chapter 42 | 1837 | This act defines the specific borders of the town of Cobourg. It also specifies the electoral districts for town representatives and the manner in which these representatives will be elected, along with the election of members of the board of police. Duties of the town council and police board are detailed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the Magistrates of the Home District to erect a New Gaol within the said District. Passed 4th March, 1837. | 7 William IV – Chapter 40 | 1837 | Due to unsafe and "objectionable" conditions at the Toronto jail, this act authorises the Home district to construct a new jail. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise His Majesty’s Justices, under certain provisions therein mentioned, to hold Courts of Oyer and Terminer, Assize and Nisi Prius, and General Gaol Delivery, in the Ottawa District. Passed 4th March, 1837. | 7 William IV – Chapter 38 | 1837 | This act amends an act first passed in 1816, repealing the fifth through tenth clauses, and allows the district of Ottawa to establish its own district courts of assize, nisi prius, oyer and terminer, and general gaol delivery. The said courts will have the same powers as the other district courts of the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act, intituled “An Act relating to insolvent confined Debtors.” Passed 1st March 1837. | 7 William IV Chapter 33 (Session 1) | 1837 | An amendment to an act passed in 1836 (6 William IV Chapter 41) | Early Canadiana Online |