An amendment to an act first passed in 1782, which requires anybody wishing to travel around the province to sell goods and merchandise to first acquire a license.
A continuation of an act first passed in 1811, which makes it easier to proceed against debtors who hold debt jointly, whether they be in province or out of province.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1814, which allowed the proprietors of the Truro meeting-house to raise funds to conduct repairs to their building.
This Act repeals the first clause of an act passed in 1787, which was an amendment to an act first passed in 1770. The original act dealt with the toll rates for bolting in order to cover the costs of erecting and repairing bolting machines.
A much more comprehensive act imposing various duties on wines and spirits than past acts, including a list of the types of items to be charged duty and the rates to be charged. The act also includes a long list of clauses which details the duties of the various officials involved in collecting and disbursing the rates, the oaths to be taken from those importing goods into the province, and rules for reporting quantities of spirits distilled within the province by distillers.
This act allocates government funds to various purposes, such as paying clerks who have served the house of assembly, to money owed to individual militia officers, and other sundry payments to those who rendered services to the government.