ACTS of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of

ACTS of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of

NEW BRUNSWICK,

Passed in the Year 1840.

Fredericton: Printed by John Simson, Printer To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, MDCCCXL

CAP. LIX

An Act to appropriate a part of the Public Revenue for the Services therein mentioned.

Passed 31st of March, 1840

To Mrs. Isabelle Hailes and the Committee of Management for the Poor School in Fredericton, for the instruction of poor Female Children, the sum of twenty pounds in aid of individual subscription towards the support of that institution.

To William Watts, ten pounds for his services as Crier or Usher in the Supreme Court for the past year, and a further sum of ten pounds for attending the Court of Chancery.

To John Gregory, to prepare an index to the Laws of the present Session.

To Matthew Brannen, of the Secretary's Office, twenty five pounds as a mark of approbation for his long and faithful services in that Office.

To the Committee od Correspondence, such sums as will secure Bills of Exchange for two hundred pounds Sterling, to be remitted to Henry Bliss, Esquire, Province Agent, for his services during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

To Charity Williams, the sum of ten pounds in consideration of her long and faithful services as a Teacher in the parish of Fredericton.

To Deborah Ann Lugrin, widow of the late G.K. Lugrin, many years King's Printer in this province, the sum of twenty five pounds to assist her in her present condition.

To Delia Berton, relict of the late George F.S Berton, Esquire, Clerk of the Crown in the Supreme Court, the sum of one hundred pounds, being for his services for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

To Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell, of her Majesty's 36th Regiment, the sum of fifty seven pounds, to indemnify Quartermaster Hall of that Regiment, for losses of certain stores occasioned by the rapid movement of the Troops during the last Season.

To James Whitehead, an Old Soldier, desperately wounded in the Revolutionary War, the sum of twenty pounds to relieve him in his present distressed circumstances, his being an extraordinary case, and no application being made under the Law.

To Thomas Lee and John Agnew, the sum of twenty pounds to renumerate them for transporting Her Majesty's Mails across the Ferry at Nashwaak, they carrying the public Courier and his establishment across the river Saint John.

To the Justices of the Peace for the County of York, the sum of five hundred pounds towards paying for the erection of a new Goal in fredericton, the above sum not to be drawn until one thousand eight hundred and forty one.

To D. Muzrall, the sum of seven pounds ten shillings, for keeping a Ferry at Burgoyn's, in the County of York, and carrying Her Majesty's Mails.

To Ann McDonald, the widow of a meritorious officer, who served in the Revolutionary War in America, the sum of twenty pounds, to aid her in her present circumstances.

To McPherson and Coy, Spafford Barker and F.W. Hatheway, the sum of seventy five pounds to assist them in paying off a debt contracted in erecting a public and Steam Boat landing in Fredericton.

To His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief, the sum of fifty pounds for a Missionary to the Melicite Tribe of Indians stationed in Fredericton, for one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, and the like sum of fifty pounds for one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

To Mary Harned, widow of the late Alward Harned, formerly door keeper to this House, the sum of twenty pounds to assist her in her present circumstances.

To James McIndoe, formerly one of the Messengers of this House, from which he was obliged to retire in consequences of extreme ill health, twenty pounds to aid him in his present circumstances.

To Mary Dingee, widow of the late James Dingee, the sum of fifteen pounds for accommodation afforded Her Majesty's Troops on their march to Canada and the upper part of this Province, at various times, the said Mary Dingee not keeping a Public House.

To Mary Banks, widow of a meritorious officer in the Revolutionary War, the sum of twenty pounds to assist her in her present condition.

To William P. Ranney, the sum of thirty seven pounds eleven shillings and two pence, being for Return Duties on Wine, Brandy, Geneva and Whiskey, destroyed by fire at Fredericton on second August last.

To the Firewards of the Town of Fredericton, the sum of sisty three pounds eight shillings and four pence, being the amount of Imperial and Provincial Duties paid at Saint John on a Fire Engine, imported for the use of the said Town from the United States.

To James Bradley and his associates, the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, in aid of running a daily line of Stages between Fredericton and Saint John.

To Francis Jemima Earls, the sum of five pounds for teaching a School in the Parish of Queensbury, County of York, for three months ending first June one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

To Sarah Gill, the sum of twenty pounds, for teaching a School in Saint Mary's, County of York, for one year endingDecember one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

To Isabel Jouett, the sum of ten pounds for teaching a School at Saint mary's, County of York, for six months, ending thirty first December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

To John Biggs, the sum of six pounds twelve shillings and six pence. being the amount of Provincial duty paid by him on a Coach imported from the United States for the use of the Legislative Council.

To His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief, the sum of sixteen pounds four shillings, to reimburse J.E. Woodollforde, the Barrack Master at Fredericton, for loss of Stores issued for the use of the embodied Militia in one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

To Xenophon Jouett, the late Usher of the Black Rod to the Honourable Her Majesty's Council, the sum of twenty five pounds, in consideration of his long services and advanced age, having served that Honourable Body nearly thirty eight years.

To Joseph Madgett and Michael Dennison, two Soldiers who served their country in the Revolutionary War in America, the sum of ten pounds, each, for one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, it appearing by the certificate of the Clerk of the Peace for the County of York, that their names were not included in the Schedule of the Sessions of that County.

To the Widow of Thomas Burdon, late a Lieutenant in the Corps of Loyal Associated Refugees, the sum of twenty pounds, towards assisting her in her present distressed circumstances.

To Bridget McDonald, whose husband came to his death assisting Her Majesty's Troops in their March to Quebec, the sum of ten pounds to assist her in her present destitute circumstances.

Pages 56 - 84, passim.

(The above may not all be items relating to York County.)