This act provides for the appointment of three or more health officers in the province as a measure against the spreading of contagious diseases. It specifies the role of these health officers, including home inspections, and includes the penalties for those who should defy the orders of the public health officers. It also makes it lawful for the legislative assembly to regulate passengers and cargo coming and going from certain ports into the province in order to control contagious diseases.
This act is a two-year continuation of an act first passed in 1830, which authorized the Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the Home District to request the District Treasurer to release funds for the support of those insane inhabitants of the District who have insufficient means of supporting themselves.
This act appropriates 600 pounds per year from provincial funds for the maintenance of lighthouses within the province, including a maximum annual salary of sixty-two pounds ten shillings for lighthouse keepers.
This Act repeals and replaces the 1830 Act, “An Act to amend an Act passed in the ninth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Act for the more speedy remedy of divers abuses prejudicial to Agricultural Improvements in this Province,’ and to make further provision to the same effect.” This Act outlines several regulations on land and water use, how live stock and dogs should be kept, and the manner in which disputes pertaining to agricultural practices should be settled.
This Act authorizes the Receiver General to borrow the funds necessary to make good on the total compensation owing to those suffering losses due to the War of 1812. This Act is further to 3 William IV -- Chapter 26.
This Act repeals certain previous legislation regarding compensation of those suffering losses due to the War of 1812, and authorizes the Receiver General to borrow up to 55,000 pounds to make good on such compensation.