Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale, Local
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to make more effectual provision for the improvement of the Internal Communications of this Province. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 13 | 1817 | An Act to apply a sum of fifty-five thousand pounds towards improving communications within the province, specifically, to open new roads and bridges or complete unfinished roads and bridges between districts, and to build new Post roads, improve highways, improve the navigation of rivers, and construct dams or canals. Specific allowances for the districts of Quebec, Montrèal, Trois-Rivières, and the inferior District of Gaspé are outlined, as well as for several counties within the province. The processes by which Commissioners of the Internal Communications are to be appointed and their duties are described. Works remaining to be done under the 1815 Act, “An Act to improve the Internal Communications of this Province” are to be included under this Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the services therein mentioned. Passed the 22nd of March, 1817. | 57 George III Chapter 11 | 1817 | This act awards sums of money to various persons for their service to the government, and for local infrastructure projects. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1817. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1817. |
| An Act to make good a certain Sum of Money therein mentioned, advanced for the relief of certain Country Parishes in distress, owing to the failure of the late harvest. (8th March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 11 | 1817 | An act to make good on a sum of fourteen thousand two hundred and sixteen pounds applied for the relief of parishes in light of the famine that followed the late failed harvest. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to and in amendment of an Act, intituled “An Act for the establishment, regulation and improvement of the Great Roads of Communication throughout the Province.” Passed the 22nd of March, 1817. | 57 George III Chapter 10 | 1817 | This act amends an 1816 act, chaging the route of the proposed road between Fredericton and Westmorland, and how much the supervisors of this highway will recieve as salary. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1817. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1817. |
| An Act to provide temporary Houses of Correction in the several Districts of this Province. (8th March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 10 | 1817 | An act to provide temporary Houses of Correction in several districts, including the District of Quebec, District of Montreal, and District of Trois-Rivières. The act sets a budget for each district's temporary gaol. The 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 and requires the committees to give an annual report of their expenses. The processes by which the committees are to be appointed and proceed are outlined. The act replaces 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. This act is to expire in 1819. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for appointing Firewards in the Towns of Fredericton and Saint Andrews, and ascertaining their power and duty, and more effectually to prevent Fires in the said Towns. | 57 George III Chapter 9 | 1817 | This act allows for the hiring of firewards in Fredericton and Saint Andrews, and describes their duties in preventing and fighting fires. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1817. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1817. |
| An Act to continue an Act passed in the fifty-fifth year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, “An Act to regulate persons engaged in the business or trade of baking and selling Bread within the Cities of Quebec and Montreal and in the Town of Three-Rivers, and to repeal an Ordinance therein mentioned.” (8th March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 9 | 1817 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1815. Under the original Act, any person found baking and selling bread without a license is subject to certain penalties. Directions for the distribution of licenses were also outlined in the 1815 Act, as well as stipulations relating to the production and sale of bread. Under this Act, the licenses are to be distributed by Justices of the Peace, where the former Act vested this authority in the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace. This Act is to continue in force until 1819. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for better regulating the Common belonging to the Town of Three-Rivers.” (8th March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 8 | 1817 | An act to allow the Chairman and Trustees appointed to manage and direct business relating to the Common in Trois-Rivières to have the land measured and surveyed, and to establish metes and bounds of the said Common. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the necessities of the Province, occasioned by the failure of the late Crop. Passed the 22nd of March, 1817. | 57 George III Chapter 7 | 1817 | This act allows for the appointment of local authorities to discern local needs from crop failures and provide relief for them. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1817. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1817. |
| An Act to establish a Market in the Town of Niagara, in the Niagara District. Passed the 7th day of April, 1817. | 57 George III – Chapter 4 | 1817 | This Act provides for the establishment of a market, detailing the funds, management, and conduct. | Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1817. York: R. C. Horne, 1817. |
| An Act for the relief of certain Parishes in Distress. (8th March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 2 | 1817 | An act to apply a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand five hundred pounds for the relief of parishes within the District of Quebec. Provisions for the distribution and use of these funds are outlined, including stipulations for the food rations to be given to men, women, and children. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the encouragement of the Trade of this Province in Plaster of Paris, otherwise called Gypsum. Passed the 11th March 1816. | 57 George III Chapter 32 (1816) | 1816 | Regulations surrounding the mining and trade of Gypsum in the province of New Brunswick. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1817. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1817. |
| An Act to regulate the Police, within the Town of Kingston. Passed 1st of April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 35(2) | 1816 | Due to the increased population of the Kingston area in recent years, this act gives greater definition to the roles of police and firemen within the town of Kingston in order to prevent disorderly conduct and to overall improve the town. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a Sum of Money to defray the expences of any Commission for ascertaining Titles to Lands in the Niagara District, which shall or may be authorized by any Act of the Parliament of this Province. Passed 1st April, 1816. | 56 George III – Chapter 40 | 1816 | This act provides a sum of money to pay for an act passed earlier in this same legislative year, which allows for the re-filing of property deeds in the region of Niagara which have been lost or destroyed by the recent war with the United States. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for opening and repairing Roads and erecting Bridges throughout the Province, and improving the Navigation of the River Saint John and its branches. Passed the 16th of March, 1816. | 56 George III Chapter 31 | 1816 | This act awards sums of money for various local projects for highway and bridge construction and maintainence. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1816. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1816. |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the public Revenue for the services therein mentioned. Passed the 16th of March, 1816. | 56 George III Chapter 30 | 1816 | This act awards sums of money to various persons for their service to the government, and for local infrastructure projects. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1816. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1816. |
| An Act to enable the Minister and Elders for the time being of the Church in Communion with the Kirk of Scotland, lately erected in the City of St. John, to hold the same to them and their Successors for ever, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Passed the 16th of March, 1816. | 56 George III Chapter 28 | 1816 | This act awards the elders of a Saint John Church of Scotland title to property there church sits on. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1816. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1816. |
| An Act to erect into a separate Parish all the Lands in Queen’s County, in the rear of the Parishes of Wickham and Waterborough. Passed the 16th of March, 1816. | 56 George III Chapter 27 | 1816 | This act creates a new town or parish in Queen's County. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1816. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1816. |
| An Act further to continue an Act, entitled “An Act to provide for the more effectually repairing the Streets and Bridges in the City and County of St. John.” Passed the 16th of March, 1816. | 56 George III Chapter 25 | 1816 | This act continues an 1810 act governing the repair of bridges in Saint John city and county until 1818. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1816. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1816. |
| An Act to alter the time of sitting of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, for the County of Shelburne, and to enable the Justices of the said County to hold Special Sessions. | 56 George III – Chapter 23 | 1816 | This Act changes the time at which courts are to be held in Shelburne each year to the first Tuesday of July. | Early Canadiana Online |