1876
by New Brunswick
1876. New Brunswick. Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick [1876, 1881-83, 1887, 1890, 1895] Six books. Octavo (6" x 9"). Stab-stitched volumes with printed wrappers bound into contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards, typewriiten paper title labels. Some shelfwear and soiling, internally clean. ex-library. Shelf location labels to spines, small stamps to title pages. $250. * Valuable for their insights into New Brunswick during the late nineteenth century, these volumes are from a series that commenced in 1786. Settled by the French, New Brunswick was taken by the British in 1759 and incorporated into the colony of Nova Scotia. Its population expanded significantly through an influx of Loyalists after the American Revolution. Its enlarged population and distance from Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, led the colonial administrators to establish New Brunswick as a separate colony in 1784. The first collection of New Brunswick acts, covering the years 1786-1805, was published in 1805. In 1867 New Brunswick was one of the six colonies that became the Canadian Confederation. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:78. (Inventory #: 51839)