Under this Act, Congregationalist ministers are to be allowed to keep registers of marriages, baptisms, and burials, according to certain stipulations as outlined.
This act specifies that shopkeepers who are licensed to sell alcohol (wine, brandy, rum, etc.) are not licensed to allow the consumption of said alcoholic beverages on their premises. The act delineates the fine for breaching this law, how it applies to the shopkeeper and the consumer of the alcohol, and the time frame in which complaints based on this act can be submitted.
This act calls for the creation of provincial election rolls, specifying who is eligible to be an elector, who is responsible for collecting the names and maintaining the lists, and how to register individuals who object to being registered as voters, among other measures.
This act eliminates the seven year residency requirement to vote in elections so that those who have relocated to the province from other parts of the British empire may vote sooner upon taking an oath.
This act calls for the county Justices of the Peace to perform censuses in their jurisdictions, establishes a procedure for doing so, and penalties for violations.
This act reduces the sum paid by Menonists, Quakers and Tunkers (German Baptist Brethren; Schwarzenau Brethren) to except them from militia service. While the laws of the province required all men between the ages of sixteen and 60 to serve in the militia, the men of these religious groups were except based on their religious beliefs; however, a law passed in 1808 required them to pay a fine for their exception. This act reduces the fine from twenty shillings to ten shillings for every year of peace time, but keeping it at five pounds for years of war.