This act prevents the sale of cord wood for any price over fifteen shillings per cord, with the penalty of a fine of ten shillings per cord for every offence.
This act makes perpetual an act passed in 1775, which was itself an amendment of a 1763 prohibiting persons in the province from building fish weirs, hedges, fish garths, or other obstructions that may prevent fish from spawning.
This act places stricter measures on the individuals collecting for the provincial debt in order to better monitor the revenue being applied to said debt, and the revenue being lost.
This act allows for the more efficient determination of the worth of private land, when that land is required for the building of fortifications in order to better defend the province.
This article provides for the transfer of offenders accused of crimes considered too dangerous for county jails to Halifax, such as treason, for as long as the American revolution should continue.