| An Ordinance to prescribe and regulate the election and appointment of certain officers, in the several Parishes and Townships in this Province, and to make other provisions for the local interests of the Inhabitants of these Divisions of the Province. |
4 Victoria Chapter 3 (Session 6) |
1840 |
This Ordinance outlines how officers are to be elected, including who is eligible to vote in these elections, and their duties. This Ordinance is made permanent. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the better extinguishing; of Fires which may happen in the City of Saint John, and to continue a certain Act relating to the same matter therein mentioned. Passed 31st March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 80 |
1840 |
This act allows for the city of Saint John to establish a fire department and spells out its duties. |
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 certain Sections of an Act, intituled “An Act for the more effectual prevention of Fires in the City of Saint John.” Passed 31st March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 75 |
1840 |
This act repeals sections six and seven of "An Act for the more effectual prevention of Fires in the City of Saint John." |
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 repeal certain parts of an Ordinance therein mentioned, and to amend certain other parts of the said Ordinance, and to amend certain parts of another Ordinance therein mentioned, and make further provision for establishing and maintaining an efficient system of Police in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal, and the Town and Borough of Three Rivers. |
3 Victoria Chapter 47 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance suspends and replaces certain parts, as described, of the 1839 Ordinance, “An Ordinance for establishing an efficient system of Police in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal.” Certain sections of the 1839 Ordinance, and this Ordinance, are extended to Trois-Rivières. This Ordinance is made permanent. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal all the Acts regulating Tavern Keepers and Retailers, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof. Passed 25th March 1840.
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3 Victoria Chapter 47 |
1840 |
This act repeals existing legislation on liquor licences and creates a new system for their award, regulations for their maintenance and penalties for their violation. |
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 repeal in part, and to amend and to vender permanent as amended, a certain Ordinance therein-mentioned, relative to Taverns and and Tavern Keepers, and to make further provision relative to the same subjects. |
3 Victoria Chapter 42 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance amends, and repeals in part, the 1839 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to amend a certain Act therein mentioned, and to provide for the better regulation of Taverns and Tavern Keepers." |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize an Assessment on the Inhabitants of a part of the Parish of Saint Stephen, in the Comity of Charlotte, for the purpose therein mentioned. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 36 |
1840 |
This act allows for St. Stephen's officials to raise money to improve their fire fighting capabilities. |
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 appropriate a further sum of money to defray the expenses of the Rural Police in the Districts of Montreal and Three Rivers, for the year ending in October one thousand eight hundred and forty. |
3 Victoria Chapter 32 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance provides a sum not exceeding in the whole five thousand five hundred pounds towards defraying the salaries and expenses of the rural police force for the Districts of Montreal and Trois-Rivières. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make perpetual an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to repeal and amend certain parts of an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Third, entitled, ‘An Act to amend an Act for regulating the manner of Licensing Public Houses and for the more easy conviction of persons selling Spirituous Liquors without License,” and also for regulating the Duty to be levied upon Licenses to Shopkeepers. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 22 |
1840 |
This act continues and makes perpetual an act passed in 1836, relating to the sale of alcohol in bars and taverns. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for further regulating the manner of granting Licenses to Inn-keepers, and to the Keepers of Ale and Beer Houses, within this Province. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 20 |
1840 |
This act establishes new regulations regarding the issuing of innkeeper's licenses, when they will be issued, and how individuals can apply for them. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise certain Duties to be imposed and collected on Wooden Stills within this Province, and for other Purposes therein mentioned. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 19 |
1840 |
This act imposes a duty on wooden stills and regulates the collection of the same, consolidating several clauses from past acts regarding duties and taxes on stills. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to extend the provisions of the Ordinance for establishing an efficient system of Police in the Cities of Québec and Montreal to the District of Saint Francis, n this Province. |
3 Victoria Chapter 17 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance extends the 1839 Ordinance, “An Ordinance for establishing an efficient system of Police in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal,” to the District of Saint-François |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent the Introduction of Spirituous Liquors into the Common Gaols of this Province. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 14 |
1840 |
This act makes it illegal to provide any prisoners of the provincial or district jails with alcohol, either by gift or by sale, under penalty of five pounds. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to render permanent certain Acts therein mentioned. |
3 Victoria Chapter 6 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance makes several Acts, set to expire, permanent. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the Act for prohibiting and suppressing of Lotteries in this Province. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 5 |
1840 |
This act extends an 1835 act supressing lotteries 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 continue, for a limited time, a certain Ordinance, relative to the seizing and detaining for a limited time of Gunpowder, Arms, Weapons, Lead and Munitions of War. |
3 Victoria Chapter 1 (Session 5) |
1839 |
This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to authorize the seizing and detaining, for a limited time, of Gunpowder, Arms, Weapons, Lead and Munitions of War,” which is to remain in force until 1840. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage the Killing of Wolves in this Colony. (Passed 14th September, 1839.) |
3 Victoria - Chapter 1 |
1839 |
This act places a bounty of five pounds on wolf pelts in an attempt to control the wolf population. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to extend the provisions of the Ordinance for establishing an efficient system of Police in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal. |
2 Victoria Chapter 55 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance extends the provisions of the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance for establishing an efficient system of Police in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal,” to Trois-Rivières. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further amendment of the Law relating to Tavernkeepers and Retailers. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 50 |
1839 |
This act gives the courts greater powers to compell witness testimony at trials concerning alcohol dealers. |
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 An Act, intituled “An Act for the more effectual prevention of Fires, within the City of Saint John.” Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 45 |
1839 |
This act repeals an earlier act regulating fire fighting in Saint John, but maintains the punishments for offenders convicted under it. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |