Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act to Encourage the Progress of Useful Arts within this Province. (Passed 30th January, 1826.) | 7 George IV Chapter 5 | 1826 | This act lays out rules and regulations regarding the issuing of patents for inventions. It details how inventors are to apply for patents, and how disputes between potential patent holders are to be resolved. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for further regulating Servants and Apprentices. Passed the 7th March 1826. | 7 George IV Chapter 5 | 1826 | This act allows for county justices to punish servants who have committed offenses against their masters. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1826. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1826. |
| An Act to authorise the further issuing of Treasury Notes, and cancelling those heretofore issued. | 7 George IV – Chapter 4 | 1826 | This act permits the issuing of forty thousand pounds worth of treasury notes, the conditions for which are specified by the act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relating to Highways, Roads and Bridges. | 7 George IV – Chapter 3 | 1826 | This act specifies the amount of labour to be performed by each resident of the province in order to maintain the roads of their district, as well as the labour to be performed by the horses and oxen owned by residents of the province in service to the maintaining and building of roads. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to dispense with the necessity of actually Pronouncing Sentence of Death in certain cases of Capital Convictions. (Passed 30th January, 1826.) | 7 George IV Chapter 3 | 1826 | This act makes capital punishment automatic when people are found guilty of capital crimes, unless someone should speak out with a reason for the court to have mercy on the individual. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act concerning Schools. | 7 George IV – Chapter 2 | 1826 | This act establishes the infrastructure and support for education in English within the province. The rates of assessment for district schools, placing the responsibility for determining school districts into the hands of local justices of the peace. Guidelines for the appointment of trustees and teachers are also included. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for applying certain Monies, therein mentioned, for the service of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-six; and for appropriating such part of the Supplies granted in this Session of the General Assembly, as are not already appropriated by the Laws or Acts of the Province. | 7 George IV – Chapter 1 | 1826 | This act allots various parcels of money for a number of purposes and to various individuals throughout the province, for infrastructure projects and in reimbursement for services rendered to the government. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for appointing Commissioners to inquire into the losses occasioned by the late destructive fires in this Province. Passed 24th February, 1826. | 7 George IV Chapter 1 | 1826 | This act establishes a commission to investigate fire loses recently incurred so as as to fairly dole out relief. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1826. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1826. |
| An Act to appropriate a certain Sum of Money therein-mentioned for the encouragement of Agriculture. | 6 George IV Chapter 31 | 1826 | Under this Act, it is made lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or person administering the Government of the Province to advance a sum not exceeding sixteen hundred pounds to the Agricultural Societies for the Districts of Quebec, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, and Gaspe for the encouragement of agricultural improvement in the province. The Act also stipulates that that the Members of the Legislature and the resident Clergy, are to be honorary Members of the District Agricultural Society for the District within which they reside. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time an Act passed in the fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to repeal a certain Act therein-mentioned, and to regulate the measure and weight of Coals.’’ (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 28 | 1826 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1824 that repealed an Act from 1822 "An Act for further regulating the measure and weight of Coals," and replaced the provisions outlined within it. This Act is to remain in force until 1831. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, a certain Act therein-mentioned, passed in the fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to repeal a certain Act therein-mentioned, and to provide for the Police of the Borough of William Henry and certain other Villages in this Province.” (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 27 | 1826 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1824 that replaces two former Acts regarding the Policing villages and boroughs. Under the 1824 Act, these communities were to elect Trustees to enforce rules and regulations outlined within it, largely pertaining to fire prevention. The Act outlined how Trustees and an Inspector for each village or borough are to be appointed, as well as their duties and terms. This Act is to remain in force until 1830. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a Sum of Money therein-mentioned, to enable the Clerks of the Peace to distribute the printed Copies of the Acts of the Legislature, as by Law provided. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 22 | 1826 | An Act to provide a sum not exceeding seventy-five pounds to Clerks of the Peace, towards distributing Printed Copies of the Laws passed in the last session of the Legislature, as directed. This Act is to remain in force until 1828. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the distribution of a certain number of Copies of the Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the late Province of Quebec, as reprinted pursuant to an Act of the Fifth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, Chapter eight. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 21 | 1826 | An Act to authorise the production of not more than six hundred copies of the Ordinances of the Legislative Council to be distributed to each of the Members of the Legislature, to each of the Judges in this Province, and to each Justice of the Peace being of the Quorum, and to each Clerk of the Peace, to each Rector, Curate, Vicar, Priest or other Minister in each of the Parishes within this Province, and to each Officer of the Militia Staff, and to each Officer commanding a Division or Battalion of Militia in this Province, and to none others, at public expense. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a certain Sum of Money to indemnify the Commissioners appointed for adjusting the proportion of the Revenue appertaining to Upper-Canada. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 19 | 1826 | An Act to provide a sum not exceeding three hundred pounds to indemnify the Honorable John Hale and John Richardson, and Robert Morrogh, Esquire for the expenses they incurred in the course of their duties as Commissioners for regulating the proportion of revenues appertaining to Upper Canada in 1824 and 1825. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a Sum of Money therein mentioned, for the encouragement of certain Schools in this Province. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 13 | 1826 | Under this Act, it is made lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Person administering the Government of this Province to grant sums as outlined towards paying Schoolmasters’ salaries for 1825 and 1826. The processes by which this is to be done are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time and amend an Act passed in the Fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the more speedy remedy of divers abuses, prejudicial to Agricultural Improvement and Industry, in this Province, and for other purposes.” (29th March, 1825) | 6 George IV Chapter 9 | 1826 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1824, “An Act for the more speedy remedy of divers abuses, prejudicial to Agricultural Improvement and Industry in this Province, and for other purposes,” until 1828. The Act makes further provisions pertaining mainly to Fence-viewers and Inspectors of Drain, including how disagreements between them are to be resolved. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Ordinance made and passed in the twenty-fifth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Ordinance concerning Advocates, Attorneys, Solicitors and Notaries, and for the more easy collection of His Majesty’s Revenues.” (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 6 | 1826 | An Act to amend an ordinance from 1785, “An Ordinance concerning Advocates, Attorneys, Solicitors and Notaries, and for the more easy collection of His Majesty’s Revenues,” to make it so that any Barrister at Law, being a Clerk of the Crown, will not be prevented from practising as a Barrister or as an Attorney at Law in any civil suit. This Act is to remain in force until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for enabling Courts to abstain from pronouncing sentence of Death in certain Capital Felonies. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 5 | 1826 | Under this Act, the Courts are authorised, to abstain from pronouncing Judgment of Death in cases wherein convicted Offenders are found to be fit and proper subjects to be recommended for the Royal mercy. The circumstances by which the character of convicted offenders may be deemed as such are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for more particularly ascertaining the damages on protested Bills of Exchange, in the Province of Lower-Canada, and to suspend for a limited time, certain parts of the Ordinance therein-mentioned. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 4 | 1826 | Under this Act, the last article of an Act from 1777, “An Ordinance for ascertaining damages on protested Bills of Exchange and fixing the rate of interest in the Province of Quebec,” except as relating to rates of interest, is discontinued and replaced for the time in which this Act is in effect. This Act is to remain in force until 1829. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the summary trial of certain small causes. (29th March, 1826.) | 6 George IV Chapter 2 | 1826 | An Act to allow the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government to appoint Commissioners to take cognizance of suits concerning the recovery of small debts within the Parishes, Seigneuries and Townships where they are appointed. The processes by which these suits should be pursued, including how summons can be made are outlined. Restrictions on where court may be held and directions for how expenses should be paid are described. This Act is to remain in force until 1829. | Early Canadiana Online |