Clarendon Parish Act, 1869
Statutes of New Brunswick. 32 Victoria, Chapter 51
(Passed April 21, 1869)







ANNO REGNI VICTORIÆ BRITANNIARUM REGINÆ TRICESIMO SECUNDO.
AT the General Assembly of the Province of New Bruns-
wick begun and holden at Fredericton on the twenty first
day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and
sixty six, in the thirtieth 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
fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty
nine, being the Fourth Session of the Twenty second Gene-
ral Assembly convened in the said Province.

CAP. LI.

An Act to erect part of the Parishes of Lepreaux and Pennfield, in the
County of Charlotte, into a separate Town or Parish.


Sec.
1 Bounds and name of new Parish.
2 Parish, to what laws subject.
3 Act not to interfere with previous
   assessment.
Sec.
4 Polling place, where established;
5 Act repealed.
Passed 21st April, 1869.


     BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative
Council, and Assembly, as follows :-

    1. That all that part of the Parishes of Lepreaux and Penn-
field, in the County of Charlotte, which lies to the north-
ward of a line to run due west from the most southern angle
of the County of Queen's, until it strikes the eastern line of
the Parish of Saint George in the said County, shall be and
the same is hereby erected into a separate Town or Parish,
to be known by the name of 'The Parish of Clarendon.'

    2. That the said Town or Parish shall have the same privi-
leges, and be subject to the same laws and regulations as
extend to or govern the other Parishes in the said County
of Charlotte.

    3. This Act shall not interfere with or prevent the re-
covery of any assessment which may have been previously
ordered, or with any fines, penalties or money which may
have accrued 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 this
Act had not been passed ; and nothing in this Act contained
shall be construed to relieve either section of the said Par-
ishes from their respective liabilities.

    4. That the Polling place for the said Parish hereby
erected for the Election of Members to serve in the General
Assembly, by virtue of an Act made and passed in the
eighteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, inti-
tuled An Act to regulate the Election of Members to serve in the
General Assembly, or any Acts in amendment thereof, shall
be at or near the residence of John McCutchin ; provided
that in case it may become necessary to hold an Election for 
the County of Charlotte before the Revisors of the Parishes of
Lepreaux, and Pennfield, and Clarendon, or either of them,
shall have made out and transferred to the Clerk of the
Peace the list of electors for each of the Polling districts
above mentioned, the Sheriff may use the list made out for
the previous year, and the electors shall vote at the places
heretofore accustomed before the passing of this Act.

    5. An Act made and passed in the thirty first year of the
Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to establish
an additional Polling place in the County of Charlotte, be and
the same is hereby repealed.


Transcriber's Remarks

The short title was not part of the original. It was added by the transcriber.

Transcribed by Craig Walsh.
September 2001.

Disclaimer: I have provided this transcription for its historical interest. It should not be considered an official or legal copy of the act.

Source
New Brunswick. Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1869. Fredericton: G. E. Fenety, Queen's Printer. 1869. pp. 96 - 97.

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This page was prepared by Craig Walsh.
First Posted 30 September 2001.