This act allots specific sums of money to individuals who performed a service to the government in the current fiscal year. It also provides for sums of money to defray the cost of maintaining or building roads across the province.
This act continues an act first passed in 1830, which provided for government funds to be made available to support agricultural societies within the province, specifying that no funds shall be granted before the officers of existing societies account for past sums granted.
This act permits the appointment of three or more health officers in every town of the province. It specifies what they are empowered to do as health officers as well as the penalties for those who disobey the appointed health officers.
This act consolidates several past laws relating to the duties and responsibilities of township officers to a single act. It includes procedures for how officers will be elected, how individuals who wish to be elected should be nominated, and how township meetings will be convened. The act also specifies what legislative powers the township officers hold and what decisions the township meetings are empowered to make on behalf of their towns.
This act allows for members of the House of Assembly to collect a salary equal to ten shillings per day for every day the member attended the House, to be paid upon prorogation and with proof of attendance.
This act amends several clauses from a prior act regarding the building and repairing of roads throughout the province. The amendments mostly relate to statute labour and dispute mediation.
This act makes it illegal to hunt or gather hare, partridge, or any of the eggs or wild fowl along the coast of Newfoundland, due to over hunting having contributed to the endangerment of the population of these species.