Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act for Granting to Her Majesty certain Duties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into this Colony and its Dependencies. (Passed 29th April, 1840.) | 3 Victoria - Chapter 2 | 1840 | This act specifies various duties and taxes to be collected on goods imported into the province in order to generate a revenue for the provincial government. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the better regulation of the Office of Reporter to the Court of Queen’s Bench in this Province. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 2 | 1840 | This act repeals an act first passed in 1823 and replaces it with new rules regarding the printing, publishing, and reporting of decisions made by the court of the Queen's bench. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise the appointment of Commissioners to regulate the Practice of the Court of Chancery. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 1 | 1840 | This act allows the appointment of commissioners to further regulate the court of chancery. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act imposing Duties for raising a Revenue. Passed 25th March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 1 | 1840 | This act introduces duties on several imported items to raise provincial revenues, and makes exceptions for those items that are duty free. | 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 defray certain charges that have arisen for the support of Aged and Infant Paupers up to the First of February, 1840. (Passed 28th February, 1840.) | 3 Victoria Chapter 1 | 1840 | This act grants specific sums of money to the individuals named who have fallen on hard times for various reasons, and therefore find themselves in need of state support. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Granting to Her Majesty a Sum of Money for defraying the expenses of the Civil Government of this Colony, and for other purposes, for the Year ending the 30th June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty, and for regulating the appropriation of the same. (Passed 12th October, 1839.) | 3 Victoria - Chapter 12 | 1839 | This act grants various sums to individuals who serve the courts of the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Granting of Licenses for the Sale by Retail of Wines, Ale, and Spirituous Liquors, in Newfoundland. (Passed 12th October, 1839.) | 3 Victoria - Chapter 6 | 1839 | This act places restrictions on who can be granted a license to sell liquor in the province, and the conditions which must be met in order to obtain said license. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend several Acts now in force respecting Light Houses, and to make further provision for the said Light Houses, and to consolidate the Laws respecting the same. (Passed 12th October, 1839.) | 3 Victoria - Chapter 5 | 1839 | This act consolidates several past acts concerning the building and maintenance of lighthouses in the province, with some amendments. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the safe keeping and due collection of the Colonial Revenue of Customs. (Passed 12th October, 1839.) | 3 Victoria - Chapter 3 | 1839 | This act gives greater authorities to the persons responsible for collecting duties in the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance further to continue, for a limited time, a certain Ordinance relative to persons charged with High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, and Treasonable Practices. | 3 Victoria Chapter 2 (Session 5) | 1839 | This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, continued in 1839, “An Ordinance to authorize the apprehension and detention of persons charged with High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, and Treasonable Practices, and to suspend, for a limited time, as to such persons, a certain Ordinance therein mentioned, and for other purposes,” which is to remain in force until 1840. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Granting to Her Majesty certain Duties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize Imported into this Colony and its Dependencies. (Passed 12th October, 1839.) | 3 Victoria - Chapter 2 | 1839 | This act specifies duties to be place on specific goods coming into the province. It also grants sums of money to individuals who are charged with collecting said duties. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue, for a limited time, a certain Ordinance, relative to the seizing and detaining for a limited time of Gunpowder, Arms, Weapons, Lead and Munitions of War. | 3 Victoria Chapter 1 (Session 5) | 1839 | This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to authorize the seizing and detaining, for a limited time, of Gunpowder, Arms, Weapons, Lead and Munitions of War,” which is to remain in force until 1840. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to encourage the Killing of Wolves in this Colony. (Passed 14th September, 1839.) | 3 Victoria - Chapter 1 | 1839 | This act places a bounty of five pounds on wolf pelts in an attempt to control the wolf population. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting a certain sum of money to defray the expenses of the Civil Government, for the year 1839, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Passed 11th May, 1839. | 2 Victoria – Chapter 71 | 1839 | This act pays out specific sums of money to various government positions. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to increase the Salary of the Adjutant General of Militia of this Province. Passed 11th May, 1839. | 2 Victoria – Chapter 69 | 1839 | This act increases the salary of the Adjutant General of the provincial militia by three hundred and sixty five pounds annually. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to make provision for the payment of certain losses, sustained by sundry individuals therein named. Passed 11th May, 1839. | 2 Victoria – Chapter 68 | 1839 | This act issues sums of money to those who have had their claims of damages sustained in the rebellion of 1837 investigated and validated by an inspector appointed by the province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance for indemnifying persons who, since the twenty-first, day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight have acted in apprehending, imprisoning, or detaining in custody, persons suspected of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices, and in the suppression of unlawful assemblies, and for other purposes therein-mentioned. | 2 Victoria Chapter 66 (Session 4) | 1839 | Under this Ordinance, charges against persons who assisted in detaining those suspected of High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices are to be discharged and made void. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the further support of the Provincial Penitentiary. Passed 11th May, 1839. | 2 Victoria – Chapter 65 | 1839 | This act grants a sum of money for the upkeep and daily maintenance of the provincial penitentiary. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to establish a Board of Works in this Province. | 2 Victoria Chapter 64 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance provides for the establishment of the Board of Works to control and manage the construction of public works and buildings and the public money provided for them. The Board's composition, salaries, and duties are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to provide for the Distribution of the Printed Copies of the Ordinances passed by the Governor of this Province and the Special Council for the affairs thereof. | 2 Victoria Chapter 63 (Session 4) | 1839 | This Ordinance provides that the terms of the 1832 Act, “An Act to repeal a certain Act therein mentioned, and to provide for the more certain and expeditious distribution of the printed Acts of the Legislature of this Province,” are to be extended to the Ordinances passed by the Governor of this Province, and the Special Council appointed for the affairs thereof. | Early Canadiana Online |