This act makes provisions for the collection of sums of money due from various districts in order to support sick and disabled seamen, fishermen, and other mariners, as per a tax passed by an act in 1836.
This act continues an act first passed in 1839 which consolidated several past acts concerning the building and maintenance of lighthouses in the province.
This act appropriates one thousand pounds annually from the provincial treasury in order to procure proper coinage, and prevent the circulation of fraudulent or substandard coinage.