This Act outlines provisions to be made for those who are owing lots et ventes on their land to the crown, detailing how they are to be paid, and how the appointed commissioners are to collect it. It also states that anybody who had property damaged or destroyed in the defence of the city of Quebec is to have their lots et ventes discharged.
This act establishes duties and fines on imported items to raise provincial revenue, and charges agents with the authority to collect such duties and fines and prosecute frauds.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1765, which made it lawful for the grand juries in each county to make presentment upon all sums necessary for the construction or repairing of jails, courts, session houses, stocks, pillories, or pounds, and for providing bolts, shackles, and the conveying of persons to the county jail.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1799, which allocated 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.
This is a continuation of several acts. Two of the acts pertain to duties on liquor, while one provides for the support of a lighthouse on Sambro island, and another for the support of a grammar school in Halifax.
This act 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. The money is to be collected by the clerk of the licenses and paid into the hands of the provincial treasurer once a quarter.