Legislation by Jurisdictional Relevance: Provincial/Provinciale
Displaying 1921 - 1940 of 4386 entries
| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for the Establishment of Light Houses. (12th June, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1834 | This act seeks to make five ports of Newfoundland safer by building lighthouses. Commissioners are appointed to oversee the building of the lighthouses, and their responsibilities are specified. The matter of funds for the building of these lighthouses is also addressed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend an Act passed in the fourth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, chapter seventeen, and further to facilitate the prosecutions of actions in certain cases. (18th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 4 | 1834 | This Act amends the 1824 Act, "An Act to provide more effectual means than heretofore have been, to compel in the proper Jurisdiction, the appearance of Defendants, residing in different districts, who ought to be joined in the same cause." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Summary Punishment of Petty Trespasses and other offences. Passed, 6th March, 1834. | 4 William IV – Chapter 4 | 1834 | This act lays out the punishment for specific criminal acts, such as assault and trespass, for example. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for opening and repairing Roads, and erecting Bridges throughout the Province. Passed 22d March 1834. | 4 William IV Chapter 4 | 1834 | This act awards money for various projects for highway and bridge construction and repair. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1834. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1834. |
| An Act to authorize the Issue of Treasury Notes. (20th September, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1834 | This act calls for the appointment of three persons to be appointed by the governor in order to issue treasury notes in the stated amounts, and using the forms specified. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to afford Relief to persons confined on Mesne Process. Passed, 6th March, 1834. | 4 William IV – Chapter 3 | 1834 | This act allows for a financial process to allow the payment of the bail of prisoners who are confined between their arrest and the execution of a trial, but are too poor to pay their own bail. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the Services therein mentioned. Passed 22d March 1834. | 4 William IV Chapter 3 | 1834 | This act awards money to various local infrastructure projects. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1834. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1834. |
| An Act to suspend, until the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Five, the operation of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, entitled, “An Act for registering the Names of Persons entitled to Vote at Elections.” (20th September, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 2 (Session 2) | 1834 | This act suspends an act from the prior session concerning the creation of provincial election rolls. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to regulate the Cutting of Channels in the Ice, in various Ports and Harbors of this Island. (12th June,1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1834 | This act allows for the appointment of committees for each harbour or channel to regulate when channels can be cut into the ice of their respective waterways in order to allow fishing boats to go sealing. It specifies how these committees will be appointed, how long their terms will be, and penalties to be served by crews who do not conform to the decisions of the committee. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to provide for the summary trial of Small Causes in the Country parts. (18th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 2 | 1834 | This Act outlines further provisions and regulations surrounding the recovering of small debts in the province. The types of debts to which this Act applies are outlined as well as the processes by which courts to hear these cases should be held. The Act is followed by several forms. This Act is to remain in force until 1836. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to render the Judges of the Court of King's Bench in this Province Independent of the Crown. Passed 6th March, 1834. | 4 William IV – Chapter 2 | 1834 | This act removes the judges of the court of the King's Bench from direct crown jurisdiction. However, judges are still appointed and removed by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor. Judges who are removed have the right to appeal to the Privy Council. | 4 William IV – Chapter 2 |
| An Act to appropriate a Part of the Public Revenue to the Payment of the Ordinary Services of the Province. Passed 22d March 1834. | 4 William IV Chapter 2 | 1834 | This act awards money to various persons for their servies to the government and for local infrastructure projects. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1834. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1834. |
| An Act to continue, for One Year, “An Act to provide for the performance of Quarantine, and more effectually to provide against the introduction of Infectious or Contagious Diseases, and the spreading thereof in this Island.” (20th September, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 1 (Session 2) | 1834 | This act continues a prior act dealing with quarantine measures to prevent the introduction of diseases to Newfoundland. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the further increase of the Revenue. (24th March, 1834.) | 4 William IV Chapter 1 (Session 1) | 1834 | This act allows for the taxing of alcohol coming into the province, specifying who is responsible for the collection of tariffs and the determination of the value in order to ascertain how much tax will be charged on each item. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend the Law respecting Real Property, and to render the proceedings for recovering possession thereof in certain cases, less difficult and expensive. Passed, 6th March, 1834. | 4 William IV – Chapter 1 | 1834 | This act amends property inheritance law and defines how property is inherited between brothers and sisters, how maternal property is to be defined, how heirs shall be defined in cases where there are no direct descendants, and excludes cases where the deceased has left a will specifying heirs who are not blood relatives. It also specifies widow's dower rights, which state that widows have a right to their dower at the death of their husband. Many other clauses also define the rights of renters, mortgagors, lease holders, etc. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue and amend the Act for raising a Revenue, and for the Increase of the Revenue of the Province. Passed March 1834. | 4 William IV Chapter 1 | 1834 | This act extends an previous act for raising revenue until 1835 and introduces new duties upon imported goods. | Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1834. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1834. |
| An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of Money for the Improvement of Roads and Bridges in the several Districts of this Province. Passed 13th February 1833. | 3 William IV – Chapter 60 | 1833 | This act grants various sums of money to repair roads throughout the province, specifying the roads as well as the sums of money to be granted to repair or build each. It names the individuals to receive each sum, how each sum is to be spent, who is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of roads, and punishments for those who should refuse to maintain roads or purposely damage public roads. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorize the Receiver General to borrow a Sum of Money for the purposes therein mentioned. Passed 13th February, 1833. | 3 William IV – Chapter 59 | 1833 | This act autorises the government to borrow a sum of money from Great Britain for various purposes. It specifies repayment and interest terms. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting to His Majesty a sum of Money to remunerate the Honorable John Henry Dunn, for certain services therein mentioned. Passed 13th February, 1833. | 3 William IV – Chapter 58 | 1833 | This act grants a certain sum of money to John Henry Dunn, the province's receiver general, in repayment for duties which he executed on behalf of the legislature. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act granting to His Majesty a certain sum of Money to enable His Majesty to defray certain charges incurred during the prevalence of the Cholera during the last Summer. Passed 13th February, 1833. | 3 William IV – Chapter 57 | 1833 | This act grants sums of money to the treasurer of the home district, the treasurer of the Brockville police, and the treasurer of the district of Niagara, in repayment of over-expenditure incurred during the cholera outbreak of the previous summer. | Early Canadiana Online |