This act makes it lawful for the chief administrative officer of Upper Canada to appoint commissioners to meet with the same from Lower Canada to establish regulations concerning the collection of duties on goods passing from one province to the other.
This act repeals legislation granting licenses for the importation of slaves and makes it henceforth illegal to subject any person to the condition of slavery or involuntary service for life.
This act legalizes marriages previously contracted in the areas that became Upper Canada and provides for the solemnization of future marriages within the same.
This act repeals an earlier ordinance for repairing and amending public highways in the Province of Quebec and allows Upper Canadian justices of the peace to be commissioners to lay out and regulate highways and roads in the respective counties, divisions, or limits of the districts in which they operate.
This act allows the chief administrative officer of Upper Canada to appoint a lieutenant in every county with full authority to call, arm, train, and exercise local militia.