← Read the currency articleNew Brunswick pound of account: research record
Evidence coverage: 1860–1860. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
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New Brunswick pound of account
T-FTM000639 · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1860; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Children / successors
Unit and issue records 1 records
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
New Brunswick pound of accountFTM000639 · C385, C386, C387, C388, C389, C395, C396, C397
Monetary history 1 events
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
7 April 1852 enactment; local pound already existingStatutory attestationThe 1852 act retains the local pound of twenty shillings while permitting amounts and accounts in dollars and decimal parts.
C385
Evidence & research notes 8 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C385
The 1852 act retains the local pound of twenty shillings while permitting amounts and accounts in dollars and decimal parts.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · New Brunswick currency act, 15 Victoria, chapter 85 (1852) Citation S186 ·
Open source ↗section 1, printed p.109
Source access and limitations
UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.
Gazette issue itself not inspected.
Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription
Supported C386
The printed commencement note records royal approval on 30 June 1852, provincial declaration on 11 August, and operation from 1 October, following Gazette publication on 15 September.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · New Brunswick currency act, 15 Victoria, chapter 85 (1852) Citation S186 ·
Open source ↗section 11 and bracketed commencement note, printed p.111
Source access and limitations
UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.
Gazette issue itself not inspected.
Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription
Supported C387
The 1852 act rates a lawful British sovereign at one local pound, four shillings and four pence.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · New Brunswick currency act, 15 Victoria, chapter 85 (1852) Citation S186 ·
Open source ↗section 1, printed p.109; lawful weight/fineness required
Source access and limitations
UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.
Gazette issue itself not inspected.
Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription
Supported C388
The 1860 act requires accounts rendered to government in dollars and cents, allowing a parallel pounds–shillings–pence column.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · An Act relating to the mode of Accounting and Currency, 23 Victoria, chapter 48 (1860) Citation S187 ·
Open source ↗section 1, printed p.69
Source access and limitations
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Supported C389
Section 4 equates four dollars with one existing local pound, twenty cents with one shilling, and divides dollars into 100 cents and cents into ten mills.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · An Act relating to the mode of Accounting and Currency, 23 Victoria, chapter 48 (1860) Citation S187 ·
Open source ↗section 4, printed p.69
Source access and limitations
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Inference C395
The original 1852 act is 15 Victoria, chapter 85; UNB’s 14-Victoria metadata label conflicts with the printed heading and the 1860 cross-reference.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · New Brunswick currency act, 15 Victoria, chapter 85 (1852) Citation S186 ·
Open source ↗original heading and p.110 running header; compare S187 sections 4, 7–8
Source access and limitations
UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.
Gazette issue itself not inspected.
Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · An Act relating to the mode of Accounting and Currency, 23 Victoria, chapter 48 (1860) Citation S187 ·
Open source ↗sections 4, 7–8 refer to fifteenth regnal year
Source access and limitations
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Inference C396
Section 2 permits the Governor in Council to prescribe fractional-cent equivalents by published order; it supplies no universal nearest-cent rounding rule.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · An Act relating to the mode of Accounting and Currency, 23 Victoria, chapter 48 (1860) Citation S187 ·
Open source ↗section 2, printed p.69
Source access and limitations
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.
Inference C397
Section 8 keeps the 1852 act in force subject to the 1860 provisions, supporting an accounting reform rather than wholesale legal cancellation.
New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · An Act relating to the mode of Accounting and Currency, 23 Victoria, chapter 48 (1860) Citation S187 ·
Open source ↗section 8, printed p.70; final clause is scoped editorial inference
Source access and limitations
Public-account requirement, coin tender and account equivalence have different scopes.
The act does not itself prove later merger or coin-withdrawal dates.
All nine sections inspected in original scan text and UNB transcription
University of New Brunswick transcription of 23 Victoria chapter 48 read in full, sections 1, 4, 8 and 9; public-account conversion, 4:1 ratio, continuity of the earlier Act and 1 November commencement confirmed.