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 authorize the Justices of the Peace, in their General Sessions, to establish Ferries in their respective Counties. Passed 11th March, 1818. | 58 George III Chapter 4 | 1818 | This act allows for counties to establish ferries for the easy crossing of rivers and streams in their borders. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1818. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1818. |
| An Act to amend and continue the several Acts, imposing a Duty on Articles to be imported from the United States of America, and for appropriating the same. | 58 George III – Chapter 4 | 1818 | This Act continues a former Act imposing duties on goods imported from the United States, as well as an act that continued it, and introduces several duties on livestock imported from the States. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue and amend an Act intituled, “an Act for regulating, laying out and repairing Highways and Roads, and for appointing Commissioners and Surveyors of Highways, within the several Towns and Parishes in this Province.” Passed 11th March, 1818. | 58 George III Chapter 3 | 1818 | This act continues an 1810 act regulating the construction and maintainence of highways, while also adding new stipulations regarding who is required to work on them and their duties while doing so. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1818. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1818. |
| An Act to continue an Act for granting a Drawback of the Duties on Brown or Raw Sugar used in the manufacture of refined Sugar within the Province, and for regulating the mode of obtaining the same. | 58 George III – Chapter 3 | 1818 | This Act continues an Act allowing a drawback on duties on sugar to be manufactured within the province, which act is to remain in force until 18 March 1819. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend Act passed in the forty sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to repeal an Ordinance made and passed in the twenty fifth year if His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Ordinance to prevent the exportation of unmerchantable Flour, and the faltering of Bread and Flour casks, to regulate the packing and inspection of Flour and Indian Meal, and to provide for ascertaining the quantity of Biscuit in future.’” (1st April, 1818.) | 58 George III Chapter 3 | 1818 | An Act to amend an Act passed in 1806. Under this Act, the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person Administering the Government is to appoint inspectors of Flour and Meal at Trois-Rivières, Montreal, Quebec, and Borough of William Henry [Sorel-Tracy]. Dimensions allowable for barrels of flour or meal, brands or marks upon those barrels, and regulations for the trade of flour are outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An act to alter the laws now in force for granting licenses to innkeepers, and to give to the justices of the peace, in general quarter sessions assembled, for their respective districts, authority to regulate the duties hereafter to be paid on such licenses. (Passed 27th November, 1818.) | 58 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 3) | 1818 | An amendment to the laws governing how licenses are granted to innkeepers, particularly in regards to serving alcohol in their establishments. The amendment allows innkeepers and public-house keepers to apply for liquor licenses at any time during the year, and places the regulation of these licenses with the Justices of the Peace. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal part of an Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled “An Act to alter the time of holding the Courts of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, in the London and Johnstown Districts. Passed 1st April, 1818. | 58 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 2) | 1818 | The repeal of an act first passed in 1816, which specified the time and place at which the Courts of General Quarter Sessions would be held. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent the destruction of the Cod and Scale Fisheries, in the Bays and Harbors of this Province. Passed the 11th March, 1818. | 58 George III Chapter 2 | 1818 | As the throwing of fish waste off of fishing ships has been damaging the fishery, this act prohibits the practice and makes it punishable by a fine. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1818. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1818. |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly for raising a Revenue to repair the Roads throughout the Province, by laying a Duty on Persons hereafter to be licensed to keep Public Houses and Shops for the retail of Spirituous Liquors. | 58 George III – Chapter 2 | 1818 | This Act continues several acts passed relating to duties placed on liquor licenses which funds were to be used to repair roads, and which acts are to remain in force until 18 March 1819. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impose a Duty upon Persons selling Wine, Brandy and other Spirituous Liquors, by Wholesale. Passed 1st April, 1818. | 58 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 2) | 1818 | This act imposes licenses upon those who sell spirits, specifying the costs and duration of said licenses, as well as the penalties for those who sell liquor without a license. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and amend the several Acts of the General Assembly, for the further increase of the Revenue, by raising a duty of Excise on all Goods, Wares and Merchandise, imported into this Province. | 58 George III – Chapter 1 | 1818 | This Act continues two acts relating to the collection of excise duties which are to remain in force until 18 March 1819, as well as an act to prevent fraud in the collection of the duties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue for a limited time, the levying of the Duties imposed by the Act of the fifty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, chapter the eleventh, as amended by the Act of the fifty-fifth George the Third, chapter the second. (27th February, 1818.) | 58 George III Chapter 1 | 1818 | An Act to continue, for a limited time, the Act from 1813 "An Act to grant certain Duties to His Majesty, towards supplying the wants of the Province, during the present War with the United States of America, and for other purposes." The Act was amended in 1815 by “An Act to repeal part of, and amend an Act passed in the fifty-third year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, ‘An Act to grant certain Duties to His Majesty towards supplying the wants of the Province during the present War with the United States of America, and for other purposes.’" Both Acts are to continue in force until 1823. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a sum of Money for the payment of certain Militia Officers, and other purposes therein-mentioned. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 33 | 1817 | An Act to take from the monies held by the Receiver-General, the funds necessary for several salaries and the expenses of the Militia, as described in the Act. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving and continuing for a limited time, and amending an Act passed in the forty-third year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the better Regulation of the Militia of this Province, and for repealing certain Acts or Ordinances therein-mentioned.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 32 | 1817 | An act to revive a former act originally passed in 1803 and amended in 1812. The amended act declares that all men between the ages of eighteen and fifty are to be militia men, bound to serve in their division's militia. The act also outlines who is to be excepted from this law, how order is to be maintained, and how these men are to be enrolled and trained. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make good the deficiencies of the Funds by Law provided, for paying certain contingent expences of the House of Assembly. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 31 | 1817 | An Act to make good on the four thousand and eighty-two pounds, twelve shillings, and nine-pence one halfpenny advanced to cover the House of Assembly's expenses, which the 1793 Act “An Act to establish a fund for paying the salaries of the officers of the Legislative Council and Assembly, and for defraying the contingent expenses thereof,” was insufficient to cover. The funds are to be taken from any unappropriated funds in the hands of the Receiver-General. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal in part a clause of an Act or Ordinance made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled,“An Act to continue the Ordinances regulating the Practice of the Law, and to provide more effectually for the dispensation of Justice, and especially, in the new Districts.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 30 | 1817 | An Act to repeal, in part, an Act passed in 1789 “An Act to continue the Ordinances regulating the practice of the Law and to provide more effectually for the dispensation of justice, and especially in the new Districts." By this act, any three Justices of the Peace may judge cases of petty larceny that were previously set before the Court of King’s Bench or the sittings of Commissions of Oyer and Terminer. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act therein mentioned, passed in the thirty-ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, in-as-much as relates to the Salaries of the Surveyors of Highways, Streets, Lanes and Bridges in the Cities of Quebec and Montreal, respectively. (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 29 | 1817 | An Act to amend a former act from 1799 “An Act to amend an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled ‘An Act for making, repairing, and altering the Highways and Bridges within this Province and for other purposes.’” Under this Act, Surveyors of highways, street, lanes end bridges in each of the cities and parishes of Quebec and Montreal is vested in the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or person administering the Government of the province. The surveyor's salaries are augmented by this Act by an additional sum not exceeding two hundred pounds. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering and amending an Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for the safe custody and registering of all Letters patent, whereby any grant of the waste or other Lands of the Crown, lying within this Province, shall hereafter be made.” (22 March, 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 28 | 1817 | An Act to repeal parts of the 1796 Act "An Act for the safe custody and registering of all letters patent, whereby any grant of the waste or other lands of the Crown lying within this Province, shall hereafter be made," and amend how payments shall be received from the grantees of the letters patent. The cost of these letters will depend on the word count of each letter, as outlined. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to render more certain the Lines and Boundaries of Lands and for the establishing and erecting of Meridian Stones in different parts of this Province. (22 March 1817.) | 57 George III Chapter 26 | 1817 | An Act to lay down meridian stones to establish clearer lines and boundaries. Within three years of the passing of this Act, these stones will be erected based on astronomical observations. These are to be laid at several seigniories, parishes, townships, and towns within the province which are named. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in amendment of an Act, passed in the present Session of General Assembly, entitled, An Act for the more effectual relief of Insolvent Debtors. | 57 George III – Chapter 26 | 1817 | This act expands on a former act for the relief of insolvent debtors to clarify that persons in prison are entitled relief. | Early Canadiana Online |