This act repeals the first act of this legislative year (6 Vic Ch 1) and replaces it with a new detailed list of duties to charge on items being imported into the province.
This act lists duties to be charged on specific goods imported into the colony in order to generate a revenue, and is largely an amendment to a similar act passed in 1841.
An act imposing a duty on foreign wheat imported into the province of Canada, passed with the exception of foreign wheat meant for fisheries and wheat imported from elsewhere in the British Empire, and with the understanding that foreign wheat previously imported into Canada was being shipped to the United Kingdom duty-free.
This act continues various past acts regarding parishes and the erection of churches, regulation of bills of exchange, inspection of pot and pearl ashes and fish oil, and the regulation of provincial courts, among other things.
This act sets out rules and regulations regarding the inspection of measurements and other requirements of timber meant to be sold as various elements of construction, including specific parts for shipbuilding. The specific standards which are to be met are included in the act, as well as the criteria which lead to automatic rejection.
This act allows for the incorporation of the Saint Stephen Log and Timber Sluice Company and establishes it authority and how it will be financed and governed.
This act gives local jusitces the power to issue Subpoenas as Clerks of the Peace when enforcing " An Act to repeal all the Acts regulating Tavern Keepers and Retailers, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof."
This act places a small duty on ships entering into Shediac harbour for defraying the expenses incurred in erecting, repairing, and replacing buoys and beacons in the said harbour.