Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale, Local, Interprovincial
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to provide for maintaining Light Houses within the Bay of Fundy. Passed 9th March 1832. | 2 William IV Chapter 9 Session 1 | 1832 | This act establishes duties on ships entering Bay of Fundy ports to pay for the maintainence of lighthouses on the bay. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1832. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1832. |
| An Act to make Valid certain Proceedings in the Home District Court. Passed 28th January, 1832. | 2 William IV – Chapter 9 | 1832 | This Act clarifies that the details of the law passed during this session regarding the meeting location and dates of the Court of King's Bench shall also apply to the District Court of the Home District. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, and to amend an Act passed in the seventh year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to provide Regulations concerning the Beaches or Strands and Landing Places in Québec.” (25th February, 1832.) | 2 William IV Chapter 9 | 1832 | This Act continues and amends the 1827 Act, “An Act to provide Regulations concerning the Beaches or Strands and Landing Places in Québec.” Further provisions for the maintenance of the beaches are outlined. This Act is to remain in force until 1834. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for raising a Revenue in the Province. Passed 9th March 1832. | 2 William IV Chapter 8 Session 1 | 1832 | This act places duties on several imported items so as to raise provincial revenues, establishes a system through which they will be paid, and penalties for their violation. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1832. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1832. |
| An Act respecting the Time and Place of Sitting of the Court of King’s Bench. Passed 23rd December, 1831. | 2 William IV – Chapter 8 | 1832 | This Act, to be valid until the conclusion of the sitting of the legislature in two years' time, states that the Court of King's Bench will sit in the community which is the "[s]eat of the [c]ivil [g]overnment." The Act also states that the Term of Hilary for the Court's sitting will take place during the first full week of February. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to confirm British Subjects in their Titles to Real Estates in this Province, derived through Aliens. Passed 28th January, 1832. | 2 William IV – Chapter 7 | 1832 | This Act states that no property may be seized simply because it was purchased from an alien. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeat an Act, intituled An Act in Addition to an Act intituled, An Act for the Appointment of Town and Parish Officers in the several Counties in this Province. Passed 27th February 1832. | 2 William IV Chapter 6 Session 1 | 1832 | This act repeals an earlier act regarding the appointment of parish officers due to it not allowing officers of the court to be appointed. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1832. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1832. |
| An Act to provide for making Stock held in Companies having a Joint Transferable Stock, liable to the satisfaction of Debts. Passed 28th January, 1832. | 2 William IV – Chapter 6 | 1832 | This Act stipulates that stock held by a debtor may be seized and sold in order to satisfy the debt, and that whosoever should purchase such stock will be able to collect any potential income associated therewith. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, certain Acts therein-mentioned. (25th February, 1832.) | 2 William IV Chapter 5 | 1832 | This Act continues several Acts pertaining to houses of correction, fraudulent land sales, Clerks of the Peace, marriage contracts, and police in Sorel-Tracy which are to remain in force until 1835. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to afford means for attaching the Property of Absconding Debtors. Passed 28th January, 1832. | 2 William IV – Chapter 5 | 1832 | This Act describes the process by which the property of an absconded debtor may be seized. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act, intituled An Act to repeal the Acts now in Force regulating the Exportation of Lumber, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof. Passed 27th February 1832. | 2 William IV Chapter 4 Session 1 | 1832 | This act amends an act regulating lumber exports in regards to the width of of boards and planks. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1832. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1832. |
| An Act to facilitate Summary Proceedings before Justices of the Peace, and to afford to such Justices reasonable protection in the discharge of their duty. Passed 28th January, 1832. | 2 William IV – Chapter 4 | 1832 | This act clarifies how court proceedings are to be recorded. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revise and continue, for a limited time, two certain Acts therein-mentioned relating to the Inspection of Fish and Oil, intended for exportation. (25th February, 1832.) | 2 William IV Chapter 4 | 1832 | This Act revives and continues two former Acts, including the 1823 Act, “An Act to provide for the Inspection of Fish and Oil intended for exportation from the Ports of Québec and Montreal,” and the 1824 Act, “An Act to extend the provisions of a certain Act therein-mentioned relating to the Inspection of Fish and Oil intended for exportation.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to remove doubts respecting the Jurisdiction of Commissioners of Customs in this Province. Passed 28th January, 1832. | 2 William IV – Chapter 3 | 1832 | This Act authorizes Commissioners of Customs to constitute a Court of Record in certain "cases of forfeiture and penalties"; namely, in those cases involving sums of money less than forty pounds. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to remove doubts respecting the Jurisdiction over Offences committed upon the Lakes and Rivers in this Province. Passed 23rd December, 1831. | 2 William IV – Chapter 2 | 1832 | This Act defines in which district water bodies not fully enclosed within the borders of a particular township should be considered to be. The Act also makes provision for the trying of crimes committed on such water bodies. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled An Act for raising a Revenue in the Province. Passed 7th May 1832. | 2 William IV Chapter 1 Session 2 | 1832 | This act imposes duties on several imported items to raise provincial revenues. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1832. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1832. |
| An Act to amend an Act, intituled An Act to repeal all the Laws in Force relating to the Establishment, Regulation and Improvement of the Great Roads of Communication through the Province, and to make more effectual Provisions for the same. Passed 27th February 1832. | 2 William IV Chapter 1 Session 1 | 1832 | This act alters the route of a great road of communication between Saint John and the Nova Scotia border. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1832. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1832. |
| An Act to prevent the operation within this Province of an Act of Parliament made in England, in the Twenty-first year of the Reign of King James the First, entitled “An Act to prevent the destroying and, murthering of Bastard Children,” and to make other provisions for the prevention and punishment of Infanticide. Passed 23rd December, 1831. | 2 William IV – Chapter 1 | 1832 | This Act removes Upper Canada from the jurisdiction of a British law concerning the murdering of children born out of wedlock, and stipulates that such murder be tried as any other murder would be. It also identifies the punishment for hiding the corpse of an infant so as to deny its birth. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to declare persons professing the Jewish Religion intitled to all the rights and privileges of the other subjects of His Majesty in this Province. | 1 William IV Chapter 57 | 1831 | 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. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to secure to and confer upon certain Inhabitants of this Province, the Civil and Political rights of natural born British subjects. | 1 William IV Chapter 53 | 1831 | This Act clarifies who should be considered natural born British subjects and their civil and political rights. An oath to be used to confirm natural born citizens, and the table to be used by Registrars are included. | Early Canadiana Online |