Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Local
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act, for founding, establishing and maintaining a College in this Province. | 29 George III – Chapter 4 | 1789 | This act establishes a fund of four hundred pounds sterling annually to establish a college at Windsor (University of King's College). | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the erection of Fences and Gates across certain roads in the several counties in this province where the same shall be found necessary. | 29 George III Chapter 4 | 1789 | This act allows for proprietors to petition local Justices of the Peace to erect swing gates and water fences along the roads and waterways of their property. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick passed in the year 1789. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1789. |
| An Act for altering the Times appointed for holding the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in the County of Sydney. | 29 George III – Chapter 3 | 1789 | This act changes the time at which the Guysborough court of common pleas and general sessions is held to the second Tuesday in February and the second Tuesday in August. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in amendment of an Act entitled “An Act for assessing, collecting and levying County Rates.” | 29 George III Chapter 3 | 1789 | This act introduces several amendments to the original 1786 act | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick passed in the year 1789. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1789. |
| An Act for altering the Times appointed for holding the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in the District of Colchester. | 29 George III – Chapter 2 | 1789 | This act changes the time at which the court of general sessions and common pleas of Colchester is held, to the first Tuesday of January and the first Tuesday of July. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for erecting a Parish in the City of Saint John, and incorporating the Rectors, Church Wardens and Vestries of the Church of England in the several Parishes in this Province. | 29 George III Chapter 1 | 1789 | This act creates a new Anglican parish in Saint John and lays out how it will be governed. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick passed in the year 1789. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1789. |
| An Act for Appropriating and disposing of the Public Monies. | 28 George III Chapter 10 | 1788 | This act awards sums of money to various persons for service to the government, and for various local infrastructure projects. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1788. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1788. |
| An Act to Empower the Justices of the Sessions in Several Counties in this Province, to make such regulation & respecting Markets and Ferries within such Counties as may be found Necessary. | 28 George III Chapter 8 | 1788 | This act gives local officials to pass regulations to mange local markets and ferries, and establish penalties for those who fail to abide by them. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1788. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1788. |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, intitled, “An Act for Regulating Pilots” | 28 George III Chapter 7 | 1788 | This act makes a provision to the 1786 act allowing regular Jusitces of the Peace in Northumberland County to enforce it until Justices of Common Pleas are established in said county. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1788. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1788. |
| An Act to provide for the Support of a Light House, to be built upon Partridge-Island | 28 George III Chapter 4 | 1788 | This act makes provisions for a lighthouse to be built on Partridge Island, near Saint John, and sets up a system of duties on ships entering the harbour to pay for it. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1788. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1788. |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, intitled, An Act for the better Extinguishing Fires that may happen within the City of Saint John | 28 George III Chapter 3 | 1788 | This amendment to the 1786 act allows for the city of Saint John to hire more firemen than previously allowed, and exempts said firemen from other civic duties during their tenure. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1788. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1788. |
| An act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Services of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Eight, and for appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of General Assembly. | 28 George III Chapter 16 | 1787 | This Act lists several sums to be distributed to cover the sums owing for certain services, salaries, or other expenses as listed. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to raise a Sum of Money to repair the Public Road leading from Halifax to Windsor, and to cause the Proprietors of Lands on each Side said Road to settle the same more expeditiously. | 28 George III Chapter 13 | 1787 | This Act enacts that persons owning property between Sackville Bridge and Three Mile Plain on the Windsor road must pay a tax each year if they suffer the land to remain unsettled. The processes by which this tax is to be applied and collected are outlined. This Act is to remain in force until 1790. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Amendment of an Act for establishing a public Market at the Market House in Halifax, and for regulating the same. | 28 George III Chapter 11 | 1787 | This Act amends the rate at which market stalls can be rented from eight pounds per annum to whatever the Justices in their sessions for the county of Halifax determine to be a fit price. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for enabling Commissioners to make Sale of the public Buildings therein named for public Uses, and to erect on the lower Parade in the Town of Halifax a commodious Building, and also to provide or build a Common Jail. | 28 George III Chapter 10 | 1787 | This Act makes provision for the sale of certain public properties, including the orphan house, in order to fund the construction of a new building to house the assembly, council, and courts in Halifax as well as a new jail. Instructions for the sale of these properties and the construction of the new buildings are outlined, including allowable costs and the duties of commissioners to be appointed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further Addition to an Act passed in the Second Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for appointing Firewards and punishing Thefts and Disorders at the Time of Fire.” | 28 George III Chapter 8 | 1787 | This Act amends the 1762 Act, "An Act for appointing Firewards and punishing Thefts and Disorders at the Time of Fire," as amended in 1783, relating to the appointment of chimney sweepers in Halifax and the frequency with which chimnies are required to be swept in the town. Directions for the maintenance of fire engines and towards the prevention of fires are also outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Regulating and Maintaining a Light House at the Entrance of the Harbour of Shelburne. | 28 George III Chapter 3 | 1787 | This Act makes provision for the erection and maintenance of a lighthouse on McNutts Island at the entrance of the harbour of Shelburne. The rates of duty to be collected from merchants and vessels coming into or leaving the harbour are outlined, and describes which vessels are to be excepted from the duty. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the further Regulating the Times of holding the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Halifax. | 28 George III Chapter 1 | 1787 | This Act amends the times at which the Court of Common Pleas is held in Halifax each year so that it happens the second Tuesday of March, September, and December each year. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace in the several counties in this province, wherein no sufficient goals are erected, to send persons charged with grand larceny, and other offences of a higher nature, to the Goal of the city and county of Saint John. | 27 George III Chapter 10 | 1787 | This act gives local Justices of the Peace the authority to commit convicted felons to the jail of Saint John (city and county), if there are none locally. | "Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick passed in the year 1787. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1787." |
| An Act for more Effectually securing the Title of purchasers of Real Estates against Claims for Dower. | 27 George III Chapter 9 | 1787 | This act makes the city of Saint John appoitned tax collectors from the last act subject to the same rules and regulations as collectors in other counties. | "Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick passed in the year 1787. Saint John, NB: J. Ryan, 1787." |