| An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the first year of Her Majesty’s reign, entitled, “An Act to erect certain Townships now forming parts of the Districts of Bathurst, Johnstown and Ottawa, into a separate District, to he called the District of Dalhousie.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 28 |
1839 |
This act amends an act passed in 1838 which established the district of Dalhousie. This amendment defines the grounds which will hold the jail and court house, which had not at that point been determined. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 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 |
| An Act to continue and make permanent an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to revive and continue, with certain modifications, an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty’s reign, entitled, ‘ An Act to alter the Laws now in force for granting Licenses to Innkeepers, and to give to the Justices of the Peace in General Quarter Sessions assembled, for their respective Districts, authority to regulate the Duties hereafter to be paid on such Licenses.” Passed 11th May, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 25 |
1839 |
This act continues and makes permanent an act first passed in 1830, which consolidated and continued previous acts concerning the licensing of innkeepers. It includes specifications regarding the granting of licenses to innkeepers, and stipulates that revenue raised through the sale of such licenses be used to upgrade roads and bridges. |
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| An Ordinance to prolong the term of the Royal Charter incorporating the Quebec Bank, and to make further provision for the government, and management of the said Bank. |
2 Victoria Chapter 24 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, the Charter that establised “The Quebec Bank” is continued until 1842, under the terms described. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| 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 revive and continue an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled “An Act prescribing the mode of measuring the contents of Wooden Stills, also, for fixing the rate of Duty to be paid on all Stills used for the Distillation of Spirituous Liquors within this Province.” Passed May 11th, 1839. |
2 Victoria – Chapter 24 |
1839 |
This act continues and makes permanent an act first passed in 1834, which details the rules for measuring, distilling, and taxing alcohol. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to abolish the practice of permitting Defendants to Traverse Indictments, for misdemeanors, before Courts of Oyer and Terminer, in this Province. |
2 Victoria Chapter 23 (Session 4) |
1839 |
Under this Ordinance, defendants are required to plead to any indictments for misdemeanors at the trial in Courts of Oyer and Terminer in which the indictment is found, unless good cause is found for putting off the trial. |
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