This act makes provisions for the maintenance of common diked marshland outside of Annapolis. The act gives the responsibility and authority to supervisors to maintain the common marshland, and specifies the punishments for disobeying the instructions of the supervisors.
This act modifies the manner in which the oath to be taken by surveyors or "chain men" employed by surveyors so they do not have to travel such long distances to swear an oath before a justice of the peace.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1762, which extends the provisions of the act to several other towns outside of its originally intended jurisdiction, which was Halifax.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1765, which specified the organization of labour or funds towards the maintenance and construction of roads, highways, and bridges.
An amendment to an act first passed in 1760, which allows the repairs of dykes and weirs to be undertaken by the commissioners of sewers so as to assure the proper maintenance of such structures, as they impact everyone who holds shares of the lands serviced by the said dykes and weirs.
This act modifies how the duties on spirits and sugars are collected in order to keep better track of how much revenue is being brought in by these taxes, and to better apply them to the province's debt.