| An Ordinance to render permanent a certain Ordinance for more effectually preventing the administering or taking of Unlawful Oaths, and for preventing Treasonable and Seditious practices. |
3 Victoria Chapter 19 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance makes the 1839 Ordinance, “An Ordinance for more effectually preventing the administering or taking of Unlawful Oaths, and for better preventing Treasonable and Seditious Practices,” permanent. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise certain Duties to be imposed and collected on Wooden Stills within this Province, and for other Purposes therein mentioned. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 19 |
1840 |
This act imposes a duty on wooden stills and regulates the collection of the same, consolidating several clauses from past acts regarding duties and taxes on stills. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for altering the times of holding one of the Terms of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, and also one of the additional Terms of the said Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of King’s. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 19 |
1840 |
This act allows for the times of the sittings of certain courts to be altered to more convenient times. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the thirty-second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, “An Act to establish the Winchester Measure throughout this Province.” Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 17 |
1840 |
This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1792 which standardizes weights and measures throughout the province and fines those who continue to use nonstandard units in public sale. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to render permanent certain Ordinances therein mentioned, and to amend one of the said Ordinances. |
3 Victoria Chapter 16 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance makes various Ordinances, listed, permanent and amends certain sections of a number of them. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance further to continue, for a limited time, certain Acts therein mentioned. |
3 Victoria Chapter 15 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance continues several Acts, listed, which are to remain in force until 1845. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act passed in the sixth year of His late Majesty's reign, entitled, “An Act to repeal and amend certain Acts of this Province, in relation to the Gold and Silver Coin made current by Law and to make further provision respecting the rates at which certain Gold and Silver Coins shall pass current in this Province.” Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 15 |
1840 |
This act continues an act first passed in 1836 which enables the manufacture of provincial currency, as well as regulating the value of currently brought from outside the province. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue for a limited time, two certain Acts therein mentioned, relative to the erection of Court Houses and Gaols in the several Counties of this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned. |
3 Victoria Chapter 14 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance continues the 1832 Act, “An Act to authorise the erection of Court Houses and Goals in the Counties of this Province, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” as amended by another Act in 1834., which Acts are to remain in force until 1845. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the Act to regulate the exportation of Lumber. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 14 |
1840 |
This act extends the terms of an 1837 act regulating lumber exportation until 1845. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act to prevent the Introduction of Spirituous Liquors into the Common Gaols of this Province. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 14 |
1840 |
This act makes it illegal to provide any prisoners of the provincial or district jails with alcohol, either by gift or by sale, under penalty of five pounds. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue for a limited time, a certain Act therein mentioned, in relation to secret incumbrances on lands. |
3 Victoria Chapter 13 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance continues the 1829 Act, “An Act to provide for the more effectual extinction of Secret Incumbrances on Lands than was heretofore in use in this Province,” which is to remain in force until 1845. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the Act to regulate Pawn Brokers within this Province. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 13 |
1840 |
This act extends the terms of an 1836 act regulating pawn brokers until 1845. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act to amend and make permanent an Act passed in the fifth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to prevent the Sale of Spirituous Liquors to Indians.” Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 13 |
1840 |
This is a continuation of an act first passed in 1835, making it illegal to sell liquor to indigenous people. The original act is also amended, increasing the maximum penalty from five to twenty pounds. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the Act to regulate the ungranted Ferries in this Province. Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 12 |
1840 |
This act continues the terms of an 1835 act regulating ferries until 1840. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Ordinance further to continue for a limited time, an Ordinance passed in the first year of Her Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Ordinance to provide for the better defence of this Province, and to regulate the Militia thereof.” |
3 Victoria Chapter 11 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, "An Ordinance to provide for the better defence of this Province, and to regulate the Militia thereof," which is to remain in force until 1843. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act passed during the third Session of the present Parliament, entitled, “An Act to authorise the Establishment of Boards of Boundary Line Commissioners, within the several Districts of this Province.” Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 11 |
1840 |
This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1838, which establishes a board of boundary commissioners for each district within the province in order to help settle disputes caused by improper boundary surveys. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue an Act, intituled “An Act to grant a bounty on the Destruction of Bears in this Province.” Passed 25th March 1840. |
3 Victoria Chapter 11 |
1840 |
This act extends an 1828 act promoting the extermination of bears until 1845. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Ordinance to render permanent certain Ordinances therein mentioned, providing for the indemnification of persons who may have acted in the suppression of unlawful assemblies or of Treasonable practices, and for the attainder of persons against whom sentences may have been given by Courts Martial. |
3 Victoria Chapter 10 (Session 5) |
1840 |
This Ordinance makes several ordinances related to the arrest of people suspected of treasonable practices or acting in defence of the Province, permanent. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Supplies for the Civil Government of this Colony, and other purposes. (Passed 20th April, 1840.) |
3 Victoria - Chapter 10 |
1840 |
This act allows the government to withdraw a sum in order to pay certain expenses related to the operation of civil offices. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to compel certain persons not Assessed, to perform Statute Labour. Passed 10th February, 1840. |
3 Victoria – Chapter 10 |
1840 |
This act makes it legal for every male over the age of twenty-one to be ordered to perform statute labour whether they own property or not. |
Early Canadiana Online |