This act continues for four years an act first passed in 1802 which allows the chief administrator of the province to create additional ports of entry for merchandize coming from the United States. No clauses are repealed or modified.
This Act makes amendments to former procedures around trade in cord wood, coal, salt, and grains in response to abuses arising from former policies. The act describes the rates measurers should be paid as well as what was to be done with rotted or crooked wood.
This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1803 concerning the inspection and taxation of liquor sales and licensing, requiring inspectors to submit detailed quarterly reports along with all the taxes they have collected up to that point. A fine of 100 pounds is specified for any inspector who should fail to submit such report at the quarterly sessions.
This act regulates the price and taxes to be paid for salt in the province, in an attempt to make it more readily available for the fishery and make shortages caused by high prices and supply issues less common.
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.
An appeal of an act passed in 1799, which was itself an amendment to several other acts dating back to 1760, regulating the public market practices of Halifax. The current bill repeals the past acts and replaces it with new measures.
An act to continue an act originally passed in 1808, and extended in 1811 and 813 by the same name. The original act placed regulations on the export of certain types of lumber and made it lawful for the governor to appoint Master Cullers and Measurers of boards and planks, staves, timber, and masts and spars at the ports of Montreal and Quebec. Expectations and duties for these positions and standards for lumber being exported were outlined. The act is to expire in 1817.
An act to further continue an act from 1796, and amended in 1808 for a limited time. The act grants the Governor or Lieutenant Governor the authority to suspend, revive, annul, or make void this act, or every and any of its clauses. Th act allows the suspension of any act or ordinance relating to trade, in whole or in part, by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor. It further allows the Governor or Lieutenant Governor to make regulations with respect to imports, exports, duties, or anything else between Lower Canada and the United States. The act is to expire in 1816.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1782, which requires anybody wishing to travel around the province to sell goods and merchandise to first acquire a license.
An act to impose new duties on items including varies teas, wines, molasses, and syrups. The rates of these duties are set. The act also specifies the processes by which licenses for auctioning the goods subject to these duties are to be obtained, including the oath or affirmation auctioneers must swear to when rendering their accounts to the Receiver General.
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.
This act regulates the standards and quality for hewed timber to be exported from the province. Surveyors are empowered to inspect hewed timber to make sure it meets exportation standards, and impose fines if it does not.