This Act continues an Act from 1827, “An Act more effectually to provide for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places of Public Worship, and for other purposes therein mentioned.” This Act is to remain in force until 1834.
This act introduces Catholic emancipation laws passed by the Imperial parliament into New Brunswick law, granting Roman Catholic subjects full legal and political equality with Protestants.
This act empowers the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of York to purchase and sell property within the town of York for the purposes of the church. It defines the authority required from church members in order to sell or purchase these lands, and how much land will be open for sale to the congregation in order to build a new residence for the erection of a new chapel and
This act specifies an affirmation which religious sects who are uncomfortable taking an oath due to religious reasons can take in place of an oath for legal purposes.
This Act makes it lawful for Wesleyan Ministers to have and keep registers of marriages, baptisms, burials, and marriages, and gives further direction for how this should be done.
This Act extends rights to Jewish British Subjects including provisions for the construction of Synagogues and burial grounds and gives further direction for how registers of births, marriages, and deaths should be kept.
This Act provides for the appointment of trustees to manage land for religious congregations within the province. The land held per congregation may not exceed five acres, and is to be used for churches, "meeting-house[s] or chapel[s]," and / or cemeteries.
Further amendment to an act passed in 1783, which repealed several measures imposed on Catholics two previous acts. The current amendment pertains to education of Catholics in the province.
This act creates a new Anglican parish in Halifax, dividing the parish of St George into two - Saint George and Saint Paul. The limits of the new parish and old parish are specified, as well as those who will be excepted from paying a tithe to one church due to owning a pew in the other.
An Act to clarify the legality and validity of Commissioners’ acts and proceedings under the 1791 Ordinance, “An Act or Ordinance concerning the building and repairing of Churches, Parsonage Houses and Church Yards.”
An Act to repeal and replace former Acts from 1821 “An Act for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places used for Public Worship, and for repealing an Act therein mentioned,” and 1825, “An Act to continue for a limited time, and amend an Act passed in the first year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Act for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places used for Public Worship, and for repealing an Act therein mentioned.’” This Act is to remain in force until 1830.
An Act to clarify the intention of certain word choices within an Act passed in 1795, “An Act to establish the form of Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, to confirm and make valid in law the Register of the Protestant Congregation of Christ-Church, Montreal, and others which may have been informally kept, and to afford the means of remedying omissions in former Registers.” The Act also makes marriages performed by ministers within the Church of Scotland legal and valid under the law.
An amendment to an 1783 law, which partially repealed two prior laws relating to possession of land and freedom of religion for Catholics. The amendment repeals the remaining clauses that were left unrepealed in 1783.