An Act to get one million six hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-two pounds for building or improving canals, roads, lighthouses, locks, and slide throughout the province.
An Act implementing duties of one pound per a 100 pounds value for items sold at a public auction. This extends the law to cover the area formerly known as Lower Canada.
An Act to allocate funds from the sale of School Lands in former Upper Canada. The money is to be used for maintenance of schools in the area formerly known as Upper Canada or to build new schools. Also states that District Schools will now be Grammar Schools.
An Act to repeal the Customs Laws of Lower Canada and put into place new Customs on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the United Canadas. The importer is charged five pounds on items valued at 100 pounds and the act also details what items are exempted and how the money is paid.
An Act to fun the care of poor or needy emigrants to the United Canadas. There is a customs fee charged to all those entering the United Canadas of five shillings per person with children being charged less.
An Act which outlines how fines will be reported by the Justice of the Peace to the General Quarter Session in writing. The Clerk of the Peace will then collect, file, and publish them in the district Newspaper. It also states how the fees will be collected by the Courts.
This act amends existing legislation on tax collection to allow for the city of Saint John to award payment to assessors of taxes in the Parish of Portland.
This act increases the sum paid to the Samuel B. Smith, one of the junior clerks in the executive council office, by twenty pounds, to make up for a deficiency of the same amount in his salary for 1839.
This act allows John Henry Dunn to keep a portion of a loan made to him by the province as a reimbursement for services he rendered to the province, as per an act passed in 1837.
This act permits the reimbursement of the sheriff of the Midland district, who has found himself paying for the repairs of the local jail out of pocket.