This act establishes the Law Society of Upper Canada to "secure to the province and the profession a learned and honourable body ... and to support and maintain the constitution of the said province."
This act allows the chief administrator of the province to once again appoint commissioners to negotiate the duties to be paid on commerce between Upper and Lower Canada, the last round of negotiations having failed.
This act renews expired duties on the public sale of alcohol and requires those intending to sell alcohol to obtain a license regardless of whether or not they keep a public house.
This act makes it lawful for any person entitled to a dowery to release a woman's right and title to dower in the land in question in order to bar any person from executing the same dower over such land.
This act provides for further regulation of the militia, as well as it allows the chief administrator of Upper Canada to march the militia to Lower Canada for support of that province in times of war or insurrection.