GNB
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

Fort Havoc (Wallace Hale)

Info The language of the text is the original used by Wallace Hale. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.

Introduction | Genealogies | Loyalist Reference Documents | Loyalist Reference Text | New Brunswick | W. O. Raymond Scrapbook | Ship Passenger Lists
 

CAP. XI.

An ACT, for the commutation of His Majesty's Quit Rents in the Province of New Brunswick.

Passed 24th June, 1835.

Preamble.

 

 
WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to grant to Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors, a certain annual sum of money in commutation and in full discharge of all Quit Rents now due or to become due to Your Majest,y Your Heirs and Successors in this Province by virtue of any grants or letters patent from the Crown heretofore made of lands within this Province;
 
 
We, Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of New Brunswick, in General Assembly convened, as and for a commutation of all Quit Rents reserved to the Crown in and by grants of land within this Province, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and to grant unto Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors, for the purpose of enabling Your Majesty to make and improve roads and bridges within this Province, an annual sum of money to be expended in such manner for the above purpose as Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors may deem most conducive to the welfare of Your Majesty's said Province, and do therefore pray Your Majesty that it may be enacted;

£1200 currency per annum, granted to His Majesty as a commutation for Quit Rents.

 

 

 
I   And be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That there be and there is hereby granted to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the annual sum of twelve hundred pounds currency, in commutation and in full discharge of all Quit Rents and arrears of Quit Rents now due or to become due, reserved in and by any grants or letters patent from the Crown heretofore made of any lands within this Province; the said annual sum to be drawn from the Treasury of this Province by warrant or warrants of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's Executive Council.

To be applied towards making and repairing roads and bridges.

 
II.   Provided always and be it enacted, That the said annual sum hereby granted shall be applied by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, towards making and improving roads and bridges in this Province and to and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.

Accounts of expenditures to be laid before the Assembly.

 
III.   And be it enacted, That a detailed account of the expenditure of all such sum or sums of money as shall be drawn from the Provincial Treasury by virtue of this Act shall be annually laid before the House of Assembly of this Province.

Money remaining for three years unexpended to revert to the Province Revenue.

 

 
IV.   And be it enacted, That should any sum or sums of money payable to His said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by virtue of this Act remain unexpended for the space of three years next after the same shall become due, otherwise than for the want of monies in the Province Treasury, the same shall revert to and become part of the revenue of the Province, any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Suspending clause.

 
V.   And be it enacted, that this Act shall not be in force until His Majesty's Royal approbation be thereunto had and declared.

 
 
[This Act was specially confirmed, ratified and finally enacted by an Order of the King in Council dated the 26th August 1835, and published and declared in the Province on the 28th October 1835.]

________________

C. 11. Anno V. Wm. IV.   A. D. 1835.


4.11.1