This act places a duty on all items imported from the United States, except the named exceptions. The proceeds are to be applied to the support of the poor of the county in which they are collected.
This act continues various past acts relating to raising revenues to repair and build roads, particularly to those acts which appropriate the revenue raised by charging licensing fees for the sale of alcoholic beverages.
This Act outlines where funds for paying back an amount advanced to pay the salaries of the officers of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly are to be taken from, as the monies allowed for this purpose by two former Acts were insufficient.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1808, imposes a further duty of six pence per gallon of wine imported into the province in order to pay an annual pension of five hundred pounds to Sir John Wentworth, former Lieutenant-Governor, for his lifetime. The amendment relates to the manner in which this duty is collected.
This Act repeals the first clause of an act passed in 1787, which was an amendment to an act first passed in 1770. The original act dealt with the toll rates for bolting in order to cover the costs of erecting and repairing bolting machines.
A much more comprehensive act imposing various duties on wines and spirits than past acts, including a list of the types of items to be charged duty and the rates to be charged. The act also includes a long list of clauses which details the duties of the various officials involved in collecting and disbursing the rates, the oaths to be taken from those importing goods into the province, and rules for reporting quantities of spirits distilled within the province by distillers.
An act to repeal parts of an act passed in 1813 that imposed a two pound ten shillings duty on every hundred pounds worth of goods as defined by the act. The act was originally set to expire in 1818. This act redefines what articles are subject to this duty.
This act allocates government funds to various purposes, such as paying clerks who have served the house of assembly, to money owed to individual militia officers, and other sundry payments to those who rendered services to the government.
A continuation of an act first passed in 1799, along with its various amendments and continuations, which allocates the money collected from duties placed on various types of liquor, as well as fees collected from licenses issued by the province to sell liquor, to be used to pay for road repairs across the province.