This act extends the first clause of an act passed in 1809, originally applied to Halifax, to the towns of Annapolis and Digby. The act in question is an amendment to an 1801 act, and the clause being applied requires residents to keep the streets and gutters in front of their houses clean and free of debris and nuisances.
An amendment of an act first passed in 1761, which outlines how creditors can claim debts owing to them from absent persons and provides the processes by which debtors who abscond out of the Province to account if they cannot repay the amount owed.