| An Act to grant new Duties to His Majesty, to supply the wants of the Province. (25th March, 1815.) |
55 George III Chapter 3 |
1815 |
An act to impose new duties on items including varies teas, wines, molasses, and syrups. The rates of these duties are set. The act also specifies the processes by which licenses for auctioning the goods subject to these duties are to be obtained, including the oath or affirmation auctioneers must swear to when rendering their accounts to the Receiver General. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty certain duties on Wine, Brandy, Gin, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, Molasses, Coffee, and Brown Sugar, for the support of His Majesty’s Government, and for promoting the Agriculture, Commerce and Fisheries, of this Province. |
55 George III – Chapter 2 |
1815 |
A much more comprehensive act imposing various duties on wines and spirits than past acts, including a list of the types of items to be charged duty and the rates to be charged. The act also includes a long list of clauses which details the duties of the various officials involved in collecting and disbursing the rates, the oaths to be taken from those importing goods into the province, and rules for reporting quantities of spirits distilled within the province by distillers. |
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 Fifteen; 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. |
55 George III – Chapter 1 |
1815 |
This act allocates government funds to various purposes, such as paying clerks who have served the house of assembly, to money owed to individual militia officers, and other sundry payments to those who rendered services to the government. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving and continuing for a limited time, and amending two several Acts therein mentioned for better regulating the Militia of this Province. (8th March, 1815.) |
55 George III Chapter 1 |
1815 |
An act to continue a former act originally passed in 1803 “An Act for the better regulation of the Militia of this Province, and for repealing certain Acts or Ordinances therein mentioned,” which was amended in 1812. The original act declares that all men between the ages of eighteen and sixty are to be militia men, bound to serve in their division's militia. The amended act amends the maximum age from sixty to fifty. 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. This act makes it lawful for men drawn for service to present a substitute in their stead. These acts are to continue in force until 1816, or should a war be declared, until the end of the war. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the Services therein mentioned. Passed the 7th of March, 1814. |
54 George III Chapter 22 |
1814 |
This act awards sums of money to several people for their services to the government and to build local projects. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| An Act to continue and amend an Act, intituled “An Act for regulating the Militia.” Passed the 7th of March, 1814. |
54 George III Chapter 21 |
1814 |
This act continues the 1813 militia legislation with amendments to the provisions regarding mustering times and places, command structures, discipline, supply, and fines. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| An Act for laying additional Duties on certain Articles imported into this Province. Passed the 7th of March, 1814. |
54 George III Chapter 19 |
1814 |
This act allows for additional duties on imported items to raise provincial revenues. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| An Act to continue an Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Wine, Rum, and other Distilled Spirituous Liquors, Molasses, Coffee, and Brown Sugar. |
54 George III – Chapter 19 |
1814 |
This act was not published. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act passed in the forty-sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intutiled, “An Act to make Provision for certain Sheriffs in this Province.” |
54 George III – Chapter 19 |
1814 |
Unpublished. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act for raising a Revenue in this Province, and the Acts in amendment thereof. Passed the 7th of March, 1814. |
54 George III Chapter 18 |
1814 |
This act continues several acts pertaining to revenue collection until 1816. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| An Act for granting to His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, a Sum of Money towards defraying the expence attending the Defence of this Province. |
54 George III – Chapter 17 |
1814 |
Expired; unpublished. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Exportation of Ton Timber, and to repeal two Acts made in the twelfth and thirty-third years of His Majesty’s Reign, declaring what shall be deemed Merchantable Timber, for exportation to Great-Britain. |
54 George III – Chapter 16 |
1814 |
This act regulates the standards and quality for hewed timber to be exported from the province. Surveyors are empowered to inspect hewed timber to make sure it meets exportation standards, and impose fines if it does not. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for protecting Justices of the Peace in the execution of their Office, and for indemnifying Constables and others acting in obedience to their Warrants; and also for apprehending persons in any County or Place, upon Warrants, granted by Justices of the Peace in any other County or Place. |
54 George III – Chapter 15 |
1814 |
This act grants projection to legal officials in the province from being legally pursued by the subjects of the legal proceedings which the duty of their profession requires them to exercise judgment or action, such as execution of a warrant. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to give full effect to, and to prevent the evasion of an Act intituled “An Act for the further increase of the Revenue of this Province,” Passed the 7th of March, 1814. |
54 George III Chapter 14 |
1814 |
This act strenthens the power of officials to collect revenue off goods imported to New Brunswick. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| 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 or Shops for the Retail of Spirituous Liquors. |
54 George III – Chapter 14 |
1814 |
A continuation of an act first passed in 1799, along with its various amendments and continuations, which allocates the money collected from duties placed on various types of liquor, as well as fees collected from licenses issued by the province to sell liquor, to be used to pay for road repairs across the province. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the seventh year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and also, so much of an Act passed in the seventeenth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, as puts an end to the Forfeiture of Inheritance upon attainder of Treason, after the death of the Pretender and his Sons. (Passed 14th March, 1814.) |
54 George III – Chapter 14 |
1814 |
This act repeals previous laws enacted under the reign of Queen Anne, related to the inheritance of property title within the families of individuals who have committed the crime of treason. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to supply in certain cases the want of County Courts in this Province. |
54 George III – Chapter 13 |
1814 |
Repealed in 1815; unpublished. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, intituled “An Act more effectually to provide for the public Registering of all Marriages solemnized within this Province.” Passed the 7th of March, 1814. |
54 George III Chapter 12 |
1814 |
This act stipulates that all people just married must sign a marriage certificate. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1814. Saint John: George K. Lugrin, 1814. |
| An Act to continue the several Acts of the General Assembly of this Province, now in force, relating to a Militia, and in further amendment of the same. |
54 George III – Chapter 12 |
1814 |
A continuation of several acts regulating the militia as well as their related amendments, as well as a few new amendments mostly related to fines imposed on officers who neglect their duties. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the more impartial and effectual trial and punishment of High Treason and Misprison of High Treason, and Treasonable Practices in this Province. |
54 George III – Chapter 11 |
1814 |
Expired; unpublished. |
Early Canadiana Online |