This act allows for proprietors to petition local Justices of the Peace to erect swing gates and water fences along the roads and waterways of their property.
This act makes provisions for a lighthouse to be built on Partridge Island, near Saint John, and sets up a system of duties on ships entering the harbour to pay for it.
This amendment to the 1786 act allows for the city of Saint John to hire more firemen than previously allowed, and exempts said firemen from other civic duties during their tenure.
This Act lists several sums to be distributed to cover the sums owing for certain services, salaries, or other expenses as listed. The processes by which these sums are to be accounted for are outlined.
This Act enacts that persons owning property between Sackville Bridge and Three Mile Plain on the Windsor road must pay a tax each year if they suffer the land to remain unsettled. The processes by which this tax is to be applied and collected are outlined. This Act is to remain in force until 1790.
This Act makes it lawful for the surveyors of highways to order inhabitants of their respective townships to work on roads as deemed necessary in order to keep roads passable. The limits and enforcement of this Act are described.
This act gives local Justices of the Peace the authority to commit convicted felons to the jail of Saint John (city and county), if there are none locally.
Through this act, the legislature gives power to local surveyors to hire men to clear land for roads in the winter months, and to impose penalties upon those who refuse their summons.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, establishes a system of fees and rates (based on tonnage), for ships using warfs and cranes in New Brunswick ports.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, confirms how the city of Saint John will be governed. Unlike other cities and towns in New Brunswick, Saint John, a charter city, needed special legislation to recognize its governance.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, gives local officials the power to raise money to build jails and courts houses and oversee their construction.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, mandates that property owners must pay property taxes to support roads even in counties where they do not reside.