This Act amends the 1829 Act “An Act for the encouragement of Elementary Education,” so that Rectors, Curates, and Ministers may serve as Trustees as defined in the former Act, despite not being freeholders. Several sums are to be distributed, under this Act, to defray expenses related to education, such as for the support of schools and printing books. Provisions are made to train person to qualify to open a school for deaf-mute persons in the province.
Under this Act, Pierre Chasseur is to receive a sum not exceeding three hundred and fifty pounds to encourage the enlargement and study of his collection of natural subjects.
This Act revives and amends an Act passed in 1824, “An Act to promote the progress of useful Arts in this Province.” This Act extends Patents to cover inventions or discoveries made by inhabitants of the Province abroad. This Act is to remain in force until 1831.
Under this Act, several sums are put towards the establishment and support of Elementary Schools in the Province as outlined. Certain directions for appointing the Trustees for each school are described.
This Act extends the provisions of the 1819 Act “An Act to appropriate a certain Lot of Ground in the City of Montreal for the Site of a Public Library, and to incorporate certain Persons therein-mentioned,” and extends the term allowed for the Company of Proprietors of the Montreal Library to erect a library as provided for by an Act passed in 1824, “An Act to extend the provisions of an Act therein-mentioned, passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Chapter twenty-second, in favor of the Proprietors of the Montreal Library.”
An act to advance a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds to the Natural History Society of Montreal to be used in the prosecution of their research. Under this Act, the museum of library of the Society are to remain open to the public.
This act provides new funding for the provincial college in Fredericton and amends legislation concerning grammar schools regarding the appointment and duites of trustees.
Further amendment to an act passed in 1783, which repealed several measures imposed on Catholics two previous acts. The current amendment pertains to education of Catholics in the province.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1826, which establishes the infrastructure and support for education in English within the province. Although the title states it was passed in 6 Geo IV, it is in fact 7 Geo IV cap 2.
This act allots various parcels of money for a number of purposes and to various individuals throughout the province, for infrastructure projects and in reimbursement for services rendered to the government.