This Act repeals and replaces the 1825 Act, “An Act for the encouragement of Trade and intercourse between the Port of Quebec and Halifax.” This Act grants a sum not exceeding three thousand pounds to the first person or company to build a Steam Vessel no less than five hundred tons burthen, that is to be regularly navigated between the Ports of Quebec, other Ports in the River Saint Lawrence, and Halifax, for four years.
This act repeals a 1786 act governing land drainage and creates a new system to oversee the draining of land and the construction and maintainence of ditches and dikes.
This act repeals existing legislation regulating the exportation of fish and creates new regulations for the packaging and inspection of fish, and penalties for their violation.
This Act repeals an Ordinance as it required Writs of Attachment for Defendants believed to intend to defraud their creditors in a sum exceeding ten pounds, to be endorsed.
Under this Act, a sum of one thousand eight hundred and thirty pounds is to be advanced and paid to the agricultural societies in the Province’s districts as outlined for the encouragement of agriculture. The ways in which members of the Legislature and Clergy should be made members of these agricultural societies is explained.
This Act continues an Act from 1827, “An Act more effectually to provide for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places of Public Worship, and for other purposes therein mentioned.” This Act is to remain in force until 1834.
This Act amends the 1829 Act “An Act for the encouragement of Elementary Education,” so that Rectors, Curates, and Ministers may serve as Trustees as defined in the former Act, despite not being freeholders. Several sums are to be distributed, under this Act, to defray expenses related to education, such as for the support of schools and printing books. Provisions are made to train person to qualify to open a school for deaf-mute persons in the province.
This Act continues an Act passed in 1829, “An Act to regulate and establish the salaries and other emoluments of the Officers employed in the collection of the Revenue at the several inland Ports of this Province and for other purposes,” and authorises several sums to be paid to officers employed in the collection of customs duties and revenue at certain inland ports as specified to reimburse them for expenses incurred in the previous year. A few other instructions for how these ports should operate are outlined. This Act is to remain in force until 1831.
This Act advances a sum not exceeding thirty-eight thousand three hundred and ninety-one pounds six shillings and seven pence currency to be applied to the improvement of the Internal Communications in the Province, including improvements to and construction of roads, and changes to several waterways. Directions for how these funds should be applied and where improvements are to be made are outlined.
This act introduces Catholic emancipation laws passed by the Imperial parliament into New Brunswick law, granting Roman Catholic subjects full legal and political equality with Protestants.