Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act further to continue, for a limited time, an Act passed in the forty third year of his Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act for the better preservation of his Majesty's Government, as by Law, happily established in this Province.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 2 | 1808 | An Act to continue an Act passed in 1803, without amendments, for a limited time. The Act allows individuals suspected of treason or treasonable activities to be detained without bail or a trial while this act is in effect. This Act is to expire in 1809 or the at the close of the present war. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making Process in Courts of Equity effectual against Persons who reside out of this Province and cannot be served therewith. Passed the 30th July, 1808. | 48 George III Chapter 2 | 1808 | This act stipulates that any persons required to appear in a New Brunswick court will have to do so, even if they have relocated out of the province. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1808. Saint John: Jacob Mott, 1808. |
| An Act to provide for the greater Security of this Province by a better regulation of the Militia, and to repeal the Militia Laws now in force. | 48 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 1) | 1808 | This act replaces all prior militia acts with new regulations governing enrollment, training, penalties for failing to muster, reimbursement for innkeepers who supply mustering troops, and many other concerns surrounding the maintenance of a provincial militia. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to continue for a limited time, and amend an Act passed in the forty third year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act for establishing Regulations respecting Aliens and certain Subjects of His Majesty, who have, resided in France, coming into this Province, or residing therein.” (14th April, 1808.) | 48 George III Chapter 1 | 1808 | An Act to continue an act passed in 1803, for a limited time, to monitor the entrance of "foreigners" into the province by ship with some amendments to extend to those who enter from contiguous regions. The Act requires that ship commanders report the number of "foreigners" on board their vessel to Customs officials when they arrive at ports within the province. The Act grants authority to Justices of the Peace to jail and remove "Aliens" who remain within the province longer than the period allowed by the court. Penalties including fines are outlined as well as who is to be considered an "Alien." The Act requires anyone entering into the province to receive a passport from appointed individuals stationed at Frontier Posts. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the greater security of this Province by the better regulating the Militia thereof; Passed the 30th of July, 1808. | 48 George III Chapter 1 | 1808 | This act creates new rules to govern the command, composition, and muster of the provincial militia, and new regulations regarding penalties for those who violate them. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1808. Saint John: Jacob Mott, 1808. |
| An Act to explain, amend, and reduce to one Act of Parliament, the several Laws now in being for the Raising and Training the Militia of this Province. Passed 16th March, 1808. | 48 George III – Chapter 1 | 1808 | This act reduces the several militia acts on the books to one piece of legislation. | Acts related to Laws of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada in North America, passed in the year 1808. York: John Cameron, 1808. |
| An Act to render perpetual an Act to enable the Inhabitants of the several Towns in this Province, to raise Monies for the sinking of Wells, supplying the same with Pumps, and for keeping them in repair. | 48 George III – Chapter 24 | 1807 | This act makes perpetual an act first passed in 1769, which allows the inhabitants of various townships to vote on the use of money required to construct wells and pumps, and to maintain wells and pumps for their respective townships. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making perpetual an Act to regulate the Packing and Inspecting of Salted Beef and Pork for Exportation. | 48 George III – Chapter 23 | 1807 | This act makes perpetual an act first passed in 1794 which specifies regulations on how salted beef and pork is to be packed for export, and the standards to be met before these products are exported. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making perpetual an Act, made in the thirty-sixth year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the assize of Bread.” | 48 George III – Chapter 22 | 1807 | This act makes perpetual an act first passed in 1796, which regulates the weights, measures, and prices of different types of bread, based on the type of flour or meal used. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for extending throughout the Province, the provisions of an Act, made in the thirty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty, entitled, “An Act to prevent unnecessary firing of Guns, and other Fire-Arms, in the Town and Suburbs of Halifax.” | 48 George III – Chapter 21 | 1807 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1758, which imposed penalties on anyone who unnecessarily fired any fire arm in the town or suburbs of Halifax. The amendment extends the provisions of this act to the entire province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act, made and passed in the thirty-fourth year of his late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for the ascertaining damages on Protested Bills of Exchange.” | 48 George III – Chapter 20 | 1807 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1760. The amendment changes the interest rate charged on bills of exchange held by persons outside the jurisdiction of the crown. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to render perpetual an Act, in addition to an Act, for the raising Money, by presentment, on the several Counties and Districts in this Province, for the defraying certain County Charges therein mentioned. | 48 George III – Chapter 19 | 1807 | This act makes perpetual an act passed in 1796, which was itself an amendment to an act first passed in 1765. The original act made it lawful for the grand juries in each county to make presentment upon all sums necessary for the construction or repairing of jails, courts, session houses, stocks, pillories, or pounds, and for providing bolts, shackles, and the conveying of persons to the county goal. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making perpetual an Act, in addition to and amendment of an Act, to prevent Nuisances, by Hedges, Wears, and other Incumbrances, obstructing the passage of Fish in the Rivers of this Province. | 48 George III – Chapter 18 | 1807 | This act makes perpetual an act first passed in 1763 prohibiting persons in the province from building fish weirs, hedges, fish garths, or other obstructions that may prevent fish from spawning. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further amendment of an Act, made in the second year of His present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act for regulating the exportation of Fish, and the assize of Barrels, Staves, Hoops, Boards, and all other kinds of Lumber, and for appointing Officers to survey the same.” | 48 George III – Chapter 17 | 1807 | An amendment to an act first passed in 1762, which sets several regulations on how fish can be exported, including the regulations on the barrels it is to be shipped in, and sets the standard sizes of lumber to be traded. The amendment primarily concerns the size of barrels to be used to export fish and the markings to be used by inspectors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent illicit and clandestine Trade, and for imposing a Duty upon Articles illegally imported or brought into this Province, to be levied and paid after the condemnation and sale thereof. Passed the 5th of March, 1807. | 48 George III Chapter 16 (1807) | 1807 | This act imposes a high duty upon goods that are clandestinely traded in New Brunswick, so as to cut down on the practice. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1808. Saint John: Jacob Mott, 1808. |
| An Act to continue an Act to revive a Law for empowering the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander in Chief for the time being, to prohibit the exportation of Gunpowder, Arms and Ammunition, or Saltpetre, or carrying the same Coastways. | 48 George III – Chapter 15 | 1807 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage the Fisheries of this Province, by granting a Bounty on the importation of Salt. | 48 George III – Chapter 14 | 1807 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage the raising of Bread Corn on new Lands. | 48 George III – Chapter 13 | 1807 | This act was not published. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Summary Trial of Actions. | 48 George III – Chapter 12 | 1807 | This act details the procedures to be followed by court officials, including judges, in cases brought against debtors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act made and passed in the forty-seventh year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to regulate the expenditure of monies hereafter to be appropriated for the service of Roads and Bridges.” | 48 George III – Chapter 10 | 1807 | This act is not published. | Early Canadiana Online |