An Act to repay the sum of money forwarded by His Majesty's Treasury in order to build Houses of Correction and to repair the Gaol of Montreal, which was damaged by fire.
An Act that names several men who have petitioned to establish a hotel, coffee house and assembly room. The Act establishes the Union Company of Quebec for that purpose, to be composed of the men who made the petition. The Act dictates the price for shares, when are where general meetings of the Union Company should take place, procedures for land purchases, and other such details.
An Act to allow Thomas Porteous of Terrebonne construct a toll bridge over the branch of Des Prairies separating La Chenaye in the Country of Leinster from the Island of Montreal, across Bourdon Island. The Act declares that roads and highways should be routed to communicate with these bridges. Toll rates and restrictions are outlined.
This act gives local Commissioners of the Highways the authority to organize and pay workers to clear roads in the parishes of Magerville, Sheffield, and Waterborough.
An Act for the construction of new common jails in the districts of Quebec and Montreal occasioned by the insufficient space in existing jails. The Act sets a budget for construction costs, and instructions for how the construction will be approached. The Act also requires that auctioneers within the province must be licensed and imposes new duties upon them.
This act establishes a system for clearing winter roads in York and Sunbury Counties, and charges local officials with overseeing the work and hiring locals to do it.
An Act to apply unappropriated funds to the completion of a bridge across the Jacques Cartier River and to collect a toll for a period of one year. The road leading from Lorette towards the bridge is also to be improved under this Act.
This act keeps the duties of an 1801 act to pay for building lighthouses in Passamaquoddy Bay in place until 1806, as the exisiting lighthouses havwe yet to be fully paid for.
This Act states that, beginning this year and continuing until construction is complete, his Majesty the King be paid 400 pounds annually from the coffers of the Receiver General of Upper Canada, in order to erect buildings to house government offices and meeting rooms for such bodies as the Legislative Council, the Assembly, the Executive Council, and the Courts of Justice.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1792, which limited the traffic allowed on the road from Windsor to Hammond Plain. The amendment places further regulations on the width of felloes which can be used on the road, and imposes penalties for those who should damage the road by carrying loads which are overweight or by using wheels deemed too narrow.
This Act makes available 1,000 pounds for road and bridge infrastructure, as well as providing for the naming of Commissioners in each district of the province to determine what construction and repairs are necessary, and how to use the available funds accordingly.
A continuation of an act first passed in 1799, and its subsequent amendment, 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.