Lepreau Parish Act, 1857
Statutes of New Brunswick. 20 Victoria, Chapter 9
(Passed March 26, 1857)
ANNO REGNI VICTORIÆ BRITANNIARUM REGINÆ
VICESIMO.
AT the General Assembly of the Province of New
Brunswick begun and holden at Fredericton on the
seventeenth day of July, Anno Domini One thousand
eight hundred and fifty six, in the Twentieth Year of the
Reign of Our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace
of
GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, and from thence continued
by several prorogations to the twelfth day of February,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven ; being the
Second Session of the Seventeenth General Assembly
convened in the said Province. |
CAP. IX.
An Act to erect the eastern part of the Parish of Pennfield,
in the County of Charlotte, into a separate Town
or
Parish.
Section.
1. Parish of LePreau erected.
2. New Parish to be subject as other Parishes. |
Section.
3. Commencement of Act. |
Passed 26th March 1857.
BE it enacted by the Lieutenant
Governor, Legislative
Council, and Assembly, as follows :-
1. All that part of the Parish of Pennfield, in the
County of
Charlotte, bounded by a line commencing at the western bank
or shore of the River Popologan [sic] where it
falls into the Bay of
Fundy ; thence running due north to the rear line of the said
Parish ; thence easterly along the said line to the County line
dividing Saint John and Charlotte ; thence due south along
the said line to Point LePreau ; thence along the shores of the
Bay of Fundy to the place of commencement at the western
bank of the River Popologan, including Popologan, New River,
and Salkil Islands in front, shall be and the same is hereby
erected into a separate Town or Parish, to be known by the
name of The Town or Parish of LePreau.
2. The said Town or Parish shall have the same privileges,
and be subject to the same laws and regulations, as extend to
or govern the other Parishes in the County.
3. This Act shall not come into operation or be in
force
until the first day of September next, and it shall not interfere
with or prevent the recovery of any assessment which may
have been previously made or ordered, or with any fines, pe-
nalties or moneys which may have accrued to or become due,
or with the discharge of the duties of any officer who may have
been appointed for the year then running, but every such
officer shall discharge his duty until the end of the year, in
the same manner as if the Parish of Pennfield had not been
divided.
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