Legislation by Concept: Justice System, Public Order
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to authorise the Justices of the Peace for the County of Northumberland, to hold a Special Session for the purpose of appointing Town or Parish Officers for the present year. Passed the 7th of March, 1814. | 54 George III Chapter 20 | 1814 | This act allows for Northumberland County Jusitces of the Peace to hold special sessions to appoint local officials. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| An Act to continue an Act passed in the forty-sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intutiled, “An Act to make Provision for certain Sheriffs in this Province.” | 54 George III – Chapter 19 | 1814 | Unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for protecting Justices of the Peace in the execution of their Office, and for indemnifying Constables and others acting in obedience to their Warrants; and also for apprehending persons in any County or Place, upon Warrants, granted by Justices of the Peace in any other County or Place. | 54 George III – Chapter 15 | 1814 | This act grants projection to legal officials in the province from being legally pursued by the subjects of the legal proceedings which the duty of their profession requires them to exercise judgment or action, such as execution of a warrant. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering the time appointed for holding the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the County of King’s County, in the Spring of the Year. | 54 George III – Chapter 13 | 1814 | This act changes the time at which the inferior court of common pleas is held in Horton, to the third Tuesday in May. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to supply in certain cases the want of County Courts in this Province. | 54 George III – Chapter 13 | 1814 | Repealed in 1815; unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive and continue the several Acts for regulating the Summary Trial of Actions, before His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in the Town and Peninsula of Halifax. | 54 George III – Chapter 11 | 1814 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the more impartial and effectual trial and punishment of High Treason and Misprison of High Treason, and Treasonable Practices in this Province. | 54 George III – Chapter 11 | 1814 | Expired; unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying a further Sum of Money, towards the erecting a Common Gaol, with a Court Hall, at New-Carlisle in the inferior District of Gaspé. (17th March, 1814) | 54 George III Chapter 9 | 1814 | An act to apply a further sum of money towards erecting a gaol and court hall in New-Carlisle and to continue an act from 1808 “An Act for erecting Common Gaols, with Court Halls, in the Inferior District of Gaspé.” |
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| An Act to alter the time of the sitting of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the County of Sydney. | 54 George III – Chapter 8 | 1814 | This act changes the times at which the court of common pleas is held in Guysborough, to the first Tuesday of July, and the second Tuesday in December. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Justices of Halifax, to pay the Clerk of the Peace for his services in transacting Crown Business. | 54 George III – Chapter 7 | 1814 | This act establishes common rates for services rendered by the clerk of the peace to the justices of Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to empower His Majesty, for a limited time, to secure and detain such Persons as His Majesty shall suspect of a Treasonable Adherence to the Enemy. | 54 George III – Chapter 6 | 1814 | Expired; unpublished. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue, for a limited time, two several Acts therein mentioned to provide Temporary Houses of Correction in the several Districts of this Province. (17th March, 1814.) | 54 George III Chapter 5 | 1814 | An act to further continue a former act passed in 1811 and amended in 1812 to provide temporary Houses of Correction in several districts, including the District of Quebec, District of Montreal, and District of Trois-Rivières until permanent facilities can be established. The original act set a budget for each district's temporary gaol and replaced the sentences of "punishment by transportation," "burns in the hand," or "death without the benefit of Clergy," with sentences in the House of Correction at the discretion of the Judges or Justices. The amended act provides an annual allowance to the Committees appointed to superintend the Houses of Correction in the Districts of Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières for the purposes described in the 1811 act. These acts are to continue in force until 1816. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the third and fourth years of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors.” | 53 George III – Chapter 14 | 1813 | An amendment of a 1763 act which outlines how creditors can collect on debts owing from insolvent persons and penalties for insolvent debtors. The amendment better defines how those imprisoned for debt can be discharged. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for repealing so much of an Act, made in the thirty-second year of the late King, George the Second, entitled, “An Act relating to Treasons and Felonies,” as respects the privately murdering, or concealment of the death, of Bastard Children, and for making other provisions in lieu thereof. | 53 George III – Chapter 11 | 1813 | This act repeals and amends the fifth section of an act first passed in 1758, which categorizes various types of crimes as felonies. The clause in question regards the punishment of mothers who attempt to hide the death of bastard children; it is amended so that women who are charged with murdering any children born of them who would be considered bastard children are to be tried by rule of evidence. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter the time of the Sitting of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the County of Hants. | 52 George III – Chapter 14 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act changes the time at which the inferior court of common pleas of Hants county is held, to the first Tuesday of January and July. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the justices of the Peace in the City and County of Saint John, in their General Sessions, to levy an additional Assessment for the purpose of finishing the Gaol of the said City and County, and to discharge the debt already contracted in adding to the said Gaol. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. | 52 George III Chapter 13 | 1812 | This act gives authorities in Saint John, city and county, the power to raise funds finish building a county jail and pay off the debts already incurred in its construction. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act to alter the time of the Sitting of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Halifax. | 52 George III – Chapter 12 (Session 1) | 1812 | This act changes the day on which the inferior court of common pleas in Halifax is held to the second Tuesday of June, September, December, and March. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and make perpetual an Act passed in the forty- eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to authorise the Judges, in Civil Causes, in this Province, to delegate the power of administering Oaths in certain cases therein mentioned.” (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 11 (S1) | 1812 | An act to continue and make perpetual a former act from 1808 to allow judges in civil causes to authorise individuals including notaries and justices of the peace to administer to the oath to experts, guardians, tutors, sub-tutors, or curators in places more than five leagues away from the Court to avoid the delay and expense of bringing distant experts to Court. The original act also included the oaths that may be taken by these individuals. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the Common Council of the City of Saint John, to appoint Constables for such Wards of the City, as shall omit to choose the same. Passed 7th of March, 1812. | 52 George III Chapter 11 | 1812 | This act gives to city of Saint John the power to appoint and dismiss constables. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act for applying a further sum of Money towards the Building and compleating of the Common Gaol for the District of Quebec and its Appendages. (19th May, 1812.) | 52 George III Chapter 10 (S1) | 1812 | This act, passed by virtue of an under the authority the 1805 act "An Act to provide for the erecting of a Common Gaol in each of the Districts of Quebec and Montreal, respectively, and the means of defraying the expences thereof" grants a further six thousand five hundred pounds for the construction of the Common Gaol for the District of Quebec. The act gives instructions for how the construction will be approached and how a clerk and treasurer for the gaol are to be appointed. | Early Canadiana Online |