This Act dispenses with certain previous oaths and declarations on the part of those holding certain offices, and replaces them with one standard oath. The Act also provides that it will no longer be required that "the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper" be taken for any non-religious reason.
This act regulates how marriages are to be performed in Newfoundland, who can perform them, the keeping of marriage registers, and other matters regarding marriage which were priorly legislated by the parliament in London.
This Act provides a sum not exceeding three hundred pounds to Henriette Huguet Latour to support her Charitable Institution for the reception of Female Penitents.
This Act appropriates funds arising from the Estates of the late Order of Jesuits to the purposes of Education exclusively. The Act outlines how these funds should be kept, and distributes portions thereof to defray certain salaries for the present year, 1832, as outlined.
This act allows for Saint Andrews Church in Saint John and other Presbyterian churches to be incorporated in connection with the Church of Scotland, and stipulates how they will be goverened.
This act repeals an 1828 act incorporating a Presbyterian Church in Saint Andrews due to 1832 legislation altering the constitutions of all such churches.
This Act clarifies that Jewish persons are entitled to the same rights and privileges as other British subjects in the province and are allowed to hold any office or place of trust in the province allowed to other subjects.
Under this Act, Presbyterian ministers in Montreal are to be permitted to solemnize Marriages, administer Baptism, and inter the dead, and to keep Registers, among other things. The Presbyterian congregation is also allowed to establish a church or meeting house, and a burial ground.
This Act establishes the Minister and Trustees of Saint John’s Church as a corporation and body politic. The processes by which the ministers and trustees are to be appointed, their duties and authority are outlined.
This act allows the officials of the Trinity Church, in the Parish of Kingston, to sell a parcel of land they own to Kings County for use as a public square.
This act repeals a 1786 act against the Profanation of the Lord’s Day and for the Suppression of Immorality and creates new regulations to prevent morally questionable behaviour.
This Act declares that whenever any Religious Congregation or Society of Christians need to secure title to land for the site of a church, meeting-house, chapel, burial-ground, dwelling-house for a priest, minister or religious teacher, or for a school-house, or other purposes, it shall be lawful for them to appoint Trustees to hold that land. The Act stipulates certain limits, including that burial grounds cannot be built within the city limits of Quebec or Montreal.
This Act incorporates James Harkness, James Ross, John Neilson, and Andrew Paterson and William Finlay, Esquire, as a Body Corporate and Politic called “The Minister and Trustees of Saint Andrew's Church.” The duties and function of the corporation are described.