| An Act to provide for the payment of the Ordinary Services of the Province. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 22 |
1812 |
This act awards sums of money to various persons for their services to the goverment and to support local infrastructure. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, made and passed in the forty-fifth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled “An Act to regulate the Winter Roads in the Counties of York and Sunbury.” Passed the 7th March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 18 |
1812 |
This act amends an 1805 act, repealing some sections and creates new regulations for when and how highways are to be built and maintained. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act in further addition to an Act, intituled “An Act for better extinguishing fires that may happen within the City of Saint John.” Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 17 |
1812 |
This act amends previous legislation regulating fire fighting in Saint John to allow firemen to be except from other civic duties, save militia duties, to allow them to more effectivly fight fires. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act authorising the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Saint John, to make regulations for the more effectual prevention of fires within the said City. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 16 |
1812 |
This act gives the city of Saint John the power to create regulations they deem essential to prevent and fight fires. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled “An Act for the further regulation of Fisheries, and for preventing their decay.” Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 15 |
1812 |
This act amends an 1810 act regulating the fishery to change certain regulations as to where and when nets can be placed in certain areas. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act to alter the time of the Sitting of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace, in the County of Hants. |
52 George III – Chapter 14 (Session 1) |
1812 |
This act changes the time at which the inferior court of common pleas of Hants county is held, to the first Tuesday of January and July. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish a Winter Road from Bates’s Millpond, to the River Kennebeckacis, at or near the site of the old Court House in King’s County. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 14 |
1812 |
This act awards 30 pounds to the building of a winter road in King's County. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act in addition to an Act, made in the second year of His present Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for appointing Firewards, ascertaining their Duty, and for punishing Thefts and Disorders at the time of Fire.” |
52 George III – Chapter 13 (Session 1) |
1812 |
An amendment to an act first passed in 1762, and which had been amended several times prior. This amendment involves the regulation of equipment used by firewards. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal the duties imposed by an Act passed in the forty eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘‘An Act for repairing and ameliorating the ancient Castle of Saint Lewis,” and for applying a certain Sum of money to make good a like Sum issued and advanced in pursuance of an Address of the House of Assembly, and for other purposes therein mentioned. (19th May, 1812.) |
52 George III Chapter 13 (S1) |
1812 |
An act to repeal a former act from 1808 "An Act for repairing and ameliorating the ancient Castle of Saint Lewis," the Governor of the Province's residence. A fund of seven thousand pounds was created for this purpose under the 1808 act. The duties imposed by this act are repealed. An amount in the order of seven thousand, nine hundred and eighty pound, nineteen shillings and one penny farthing is to be paid from any unappropriated monies to make good on the expenses not covered by the seven thousand pounds originally allotted for the repairs, in addition to the five thousand and ninety one pounds, sixteen shillings and eleven pence, three farthings required to fulfill the original funds granted. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the justices of the Peace in the City and County of Saint John, in their General Sessions, to levy an additional Assessment for the purpose of finishing the Gaol of the said City and County, and to discharge the debt already contracted in adding to the said Gaol. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 13 |
1812 |
This act gives authorities in Saint John, city and county, the power to raise funds finish building a county jail and pay off the debts already incurred in its construction. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act to alter the time of the Sitting of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Halifax. |
52 George III – Chapter 12 (Session 1) |
1812 |
This act changes the day on which the inferior court of common pleas in Halifax is held to the second Tuesday of June, September, December, and March. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue an Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of his Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to provide for the Appointment of Returning Officers of the several Counties within this Province. Passed the 6th of March, 1812. |
52 George III– Chapter 11 (Session 1) |
1812 |
This act extends the terms of an 1793 act regarding the appointment of returning officers of the several counties for an additional four years. |
Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1812. York: John Cameron, 1812. (Session 1) |
| An Act to authorise the Commanding Engineer at Halifax, to enclose a part of the Highway leading from Fort Massey, to the Exercising Ground, on the Common of Halifax. |
52 George III – Chapter 11 (Session 1) |
1812 |
This act makes provisions for the modification of the road from Fort Massey to the exercising ground in Halifax, which takes into consideration the fact that a part of the old road needs to be closed off. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the Common Council of the City of Saint John, to appoint Constables for such Wards of the City, as shall omit to choose the same. Passed 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 11 |
1812 |
This act gives to city of Saint John the power to appoint and dismiss constables. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act for applying a further sum of Money towards the Building and compleating of the Common Gaol for the District of Quebec and its Appendages. (19th May, 1812.) |
52 George III Chapter 10 (S1) |
1812 |
This act, passed by virtue of an under the authority the 1805 act "An Act to provide for the erecting of a Common Gaol in each of the Districts of Quebec and Montreal, respectively, and the means of defraying the expences thereof" grants a further six thousand five hundred pounds for the construction of the Common Gaol for the District of Quebec. The act gives instructions for how the construction will be approached and how a clerk and treasurer for the gaol are to be appointed. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the justices of the Peace for the County of Charlotte, to levy an Assessment for paying off the County debt, and for finishing and compleating the County Gaol and Court House, lately erected in said County. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 10 |
1812 |
This act gives the local authorities in Charlotte County the power to raise revenues to both pay down the county debt and to complete and maintain its county jail and court house. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the forty-eighth year of his Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to continue an Act passed in the forty-fifth year of his Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to afford Relief to those persons who may be entitled to claim Lands in this Province, as heirs or devisees of the nominees, of the Crown, in cases where no Patent hath issued for such lands, and further to extend the benefits of the said Act,” and to continue part of the same. Passed 6th of March, 1812. |
52 George III– Chapter 9 (Session 1) |
1812 |
This act amends an 1808 act relating to inheritance to change the times when York commissioners sit to decide inheritance cases. |
Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1812. York: John Cameron, 1812. (Session 1) |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the fifty-first year of His Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to provide temporary Houses of Correction in the several Districts of this Province.” (19th May, 1812.) |
52 George III Chapter 9 (S1) |
1812 |
An act to amend a former act from 1811 to provide temporary Houses of Correction in several districts, including the District of Quebec, District of Montreal, and District of Trois-Rivières until permanent facilities can be established. The original act set a budget for each district's temporary gaol and replaced 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 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 in the 1811 act. This act is to expire in 1814. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for erecting a Court House and Gaol in the County of Northumberland. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 9 |
1812 |
This act allows for the raising of funds to build and maintain a new public jail in Northumberland County |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |
| An Act to authorise the justices of the Peace for the Counties of York and Charlotte, respectively to regulate the Assize of Bread in the Towns of Fredericton and Saint Andrews. Passed the 7th of March, 1812. |
52 George III Chapter 7 |
1812 |
This act establishes an assize of bread in Fredericton and Saint Andrews (important garrison towns), regulating the prices of bread, so as to prevent wartime price gouging. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1812. Saint John: Jacob S. Mott, 1812. |