| An Act for the relief of His Majesty’s Roman Catholic Subjects in this Province. Passed 8th March, 1830. |
10 & 11 George IV Chapter 33 (Session 1) |
1830 |
This act makes an Imperial act for Catholic emancipation applicable to New Brunswick. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1830. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1830. |
| An Act to continue for a limited time a certain Act passed in the seventh year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “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.” (26th March, 1830.) |
10 & 11 George IV Chapter 21 |
1830 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of His Majesty’s Roman Catholic Subjects. 18th April, 1829. |
10 & 11 George IV Chapter 7 (London 1829) |
1830 |
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. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1830. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1830. |
| An Act to enable the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in York, to exchange certain Real Estate now holden by them, for other Real Estate in or near the said Town of York. Passed 20th March, 1829. |
10 George IV – Chapter 18 |
1829 |
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 |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to Incorporate certain persons for the purpose of holding Lands for a Free Church in Dundas, in the District of Gore. Passed 20th March, 1829. |
10 George IV – Chapter 17 |
1829 |
This act incorporates the Free church in Dundas and deeds a plot of land for the purpose of a church a graveyard. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Admission of the Evidence of Quakers, Menonists, Tunkers and Moravians, in Criminal Cases. Passed 20th March, 1829. |
10 George IV – Chapter 1 |
1829 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to the Religious Classes of Persons denominating themselves Wesleyan Methodists.
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9 George IV Chapter 76 |
1829 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to extend certain Privileges therein mentioned to Persons professing the Jewish Religion and for the obviating certain inconveniences to which others of His Majesty’s Subjects might otherwise be exposed. |
9 George IV Chapter 75 |
1829 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to empower the Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestry of Trinity Church, in the Parish of Saint John, to dispose of Lots in the new Burial Ground in the Vicinity of the said Parish. Passed 5th April, 1828. |
9 George IV Chapter 26 |
1828 |
This act allows a Saint John church to sell land previously awarded to it. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1828. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1828. |
| An Act for the Relief of the Religious Societies therein mentioned. Passed 25th March, 1828. |
9 George IV – Chapter 2 |
1828 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authroise the Sale of a part of the Clergy Reserves in the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. 2d July, 1827. |
7 & 8 George IV – Chapter 62 |
1828 |
This Act allows the governments of Upper and Lower Canada to sell up to twenty-five per cent of each province's Clergy Reserves. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further addition to, and amendment of, an Act, passed in the thirty-second year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, entitled, “An Act for the establishment of Religious public Worship in this Province, and for suppressing Popery,” and to repeal the third Section of an Act, entitled, “An Act for relieving His Majesty’s Subjects, professing the Popish Religion, from certain penalties and disabilities imposed on them by the Act of the General Assembly of this Province, made in the sixth year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘An Act concerning Schools and Schoolmasters.’” |
8 George IV – Chapter 33 |
1827 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for dividing the Parish of St. Paul, in the Township of Halifax. |
8 George IV – Chapter 30 |
1827 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry of Christ Church, in the Parish of Fredericton, to convey a certain piece of the Glebe Land of the said Parish, in exchange for other Land. Passed the 19th March, 1827. |
8 George IV Chapter 6 |
1827 |
This act allows Fredericton's Christ Church to sell one piece of property for another |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1827. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1827. |
| An Act for removing doubts relating to the powers and proceedings of the Commissioners for the building and repairs of Churches, Parsonage Houses and Church Yards. (7th March, 1827.) |
7 George IV Chapter 10 |
1827 |
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.” |
Early Canadiana Online |
| 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. (7th March, 1827.) |
7 George IV Chapter 3 |
1827 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for removing doubts respecting the construction of a certain part of the Act of the thirty-fifth year of the Reign of His late Majesty, George the Third, chap. 4, intituled, “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,” as also for removing doubts about the validity of certain Marriages herein mentioned. (7th March, 1827.) |
7 George IV Chapter 2 |
1827 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of Roman Catholics. |
7 George IV – Chapter 28 |
1826 |
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. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Rector, Church Warden and Vestry of Christ Church in the Parish of Saint Stephens, to dispose of a part of a Tract of Glebe land in that Parish, and to vest the proceeds in other Lands more productive to the Rector. Passed the 7th of March 1826. |
7 George IV Chapter 20 |
1826 |
This act allows for an Anglican church in Saint Stephens to sell a plot of glebe land. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1826. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1826. |
| An Act to incorporate the Minister and Elders of the Kirk of Scotland in the town of St. Andrews.
Passed the 7th of March, 1826.
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7 George IV Chapter 17 |
1826 |
This act allows for the incorporation of a Presbyterian church in Saint Andrews. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1826. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1826. |