| An Ordinance to make provision for defraying the Civil Expenditure of the Provincial Government, for the year ending on the tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. |
2 Victoria Chapter 39 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance provides a sum not exceeding sixty-two thousand and one pounds, thirteen shillings and two pence sterling to defray the expenses of the civil government for the year. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, intituled “An Act to prevent Desertion from His Majesty’s Forces, and to punish, unlawful dealings with Soldiers or Deserters.” Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 39 |
1839 |
This act creates new regulations to prevent desertion of British troops and punishing those who aid deserters. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act in amendment of the Act relating to the appointment of a Master of the Rolls in the Court of Chancery. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 37 |
1839 |
This act places the authority to appoint Masters of Rolls of the Court of Chancery in the hands of the Sovereign. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Ordinance concerning Bankrupts, and the Administration and Distribution of their Estates and Effects. |
2 Victoria Chapter 36 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance describes who qualifies as "a Trader" liable to become bankrupt and the processes bankrupt persons are subject to, including how their estates and effects are to be handled. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relating to the partition of lands, tenements and hereditaments, held in coparcenary, joint tenancy and tenancy in common. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 36 |
1839 |
This act creates regulations for the partitioning of lands and other properties held in coparency. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Ordinance to extend the provisions of the Ordinance therein-mentioned to the losses sustained by certain Loyal Inhabitants of this Province, during the Rebellion which has occurred since the passing of the said Ordinance. |
2 Victoria Chapter 35 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, the 1838 Ordinance, “An Ordinance to authorize the appointment of Commissioners to investigate the claims of certain Loyal Inhabitants of this Province, for losses sustained during the late unnatural Rebellion,” is extended to all losses sustained by loyal subjects. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the improvement of the Practice in the Court of Chancery. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 35 |
1839 |
This act creates new rules and regulations for the Court of Chancery. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Ordinance to provide for the subsistence of Volunteers and Militiamen who may have been, or may be wounded, and for that of the families of those who may have been, or may be killed, in certain cases hitherto unprovided for.
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2 Victoria Chapter 32 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance provides sums as listed to the families of militiamen killed or volunteer militiamen wounded during the 1837-8 rebellion. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance 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. |
2 Victoria Chapter 31 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance continues the 1838 Ordinance, “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,” until 1840. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further amendment of the Criminal Law. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 31 |
1839 |
This act stipulates a minimum two year sentence for anyone convicted of assulting a peace officer. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Ordinance concerning the erection of Parishes, and the building of Churches, Parsonage Houses and Church Yards. |
2 Victoria Chapter 29 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance makes provision for the appointment of Commissioners for the erection of Parishes in the Province. Their duties, purpose, and instructions for how they should carry out their work are described. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relating to the sale and disposition of the real estate of Infants. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 29 |
1839 |
This act creates a legal framework for the handling of properties inherited by infants until they come of age, or after their death. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Ordinance to exempt certain articles from seizure in satisfaction of debts. |
2 Victoria Chapter 28 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance lists property and items that are not to be seized from debtors, including bedding, wedding clothes, and at least one Cow, three Sheep, one Hog, one Stove, and one Cord of Firewood are to be left for the debtor. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Sale of Mortgaged Premises by the Court of Chancery, and directing the application of the proceeds thereof. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 28 |
1839 |
This act provides a framework for the Court of Chancery to sell mortgaged properties. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Ordinance to provide for the more speedy Attainder of Persons Indicted for High Treason, who have fled from the Province, or remain concealed therein, to escape from Justice. |
2 Victoria Chapter 27 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, when persons indicted for High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices are not found and do not surrender themselves within three months, they are to be adjudged of the crime they were indicted for, under the processes outlined. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to assign duties to certain Commissioners, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 27 |
1839 |
This act calls for the return of receipts and vouchers by the commissioners of public works such as road improvements to the legislative assembly. Should any commissioners fail to make a proper report of their expenditures, no further funding will be approved for their project and the commissioner in question risks dismissal. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to suspend an Act passed in the tenth and eleventh, years of the Reign of. His late Majesty George the Fourth, intituled, “An Act for the relief of certain Religious Congregations therein-mentioned,” and to make other Legislative provision in the place thereof.
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2 Victoria Chapter 26 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, all lands held by any religious denomination by virtue of deed is made incommutable property, and the 1830 Act, , “An Act for the relief of certain Religious Congregations therein mentioned,” is suspended. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, intituled “An Act to incorporate sundry persons by the name of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of New Brunswick.” Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 26 |
1839 |
This act creates a framework for a union between the Bank of New Brunswick and the City Bank of Saint John. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to prevent the consumption of Spirituous Liquors in Shops.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 26 |
1839 |
This act continues and makes permanent an act first passed in 1834, which specifies that shopkeepers who are licensed to sell alcohol are not licensed to allow the consumption of said alcoholic beverages on their premises. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to suspend in part certain Acts therein mentioned, and to consolidate the Laws relating to duties levied under the authority of the Provincial Legislature. |
2 Victoria Chapter 25 (Session 4) |
1839 |
This Ordinance consolidates the duties imposed and allowed in the Province into one Ordinance in order to clarify and replace the multiple Acts outlining the same. The acts replaced by this Ordinance are listed. |
Early Canadiana Online |